MTV Moonman is now Moon Person

Why Moon Person? How do we know, for sure, that it's a person? Presuming it's a person is rather insensitive and it certainly disenfranchises life forms that are not a person.

MTV's renaming Moon Man is the most stupid story I've read in the past...hell - I'm hard pressed to remember the last time a story so utterly ridiculous received media coverage.

From The Washington Times:

“Why should it be a man? It could be a man, it could be a woman, it could be transgender, it could be nonconformist.” [said MTV President Chris McCarthy].

How does he know "it" doesn't object to being called an "it" ?

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I'm surprised they didn't choose to give "it" a hyphenated last name.

Moon Person-Gallagher-Adamson-Wyniki-Marsh-Jones-Phillips-Rogers, maybe?

MTV is still owned by Viacom .

From the same Washington Times story, McCarthy noting that part of the reason for the name change of Moon Man is to reverse a five-year "downward trajectory" (i.e. huge ratings drop). He continues that by "amplyfying young people's voices," may help attract the sexual identifications that we now are told exceed the two classifications of 'male' and 'female'.

And changing Moon Man to Moon Person is going to help that five year exodus of MTV viewers. Yup, you betcha!

And isn't MTV showing another form of bias and discrimination by being "other- celestial-bodies"-exclusive?  Why the Moon? Why not a planet? Saturn Person. Neptune Person. What bigotry does MTV exhibit by singling out the moon?

MTV was fantastic in its prime. I'm surprised they're still operating, considering their programming now contains almost no music videos. 

You may not notice the immediate, wonderful impact that MTV's decision will have on your life, but know that ALL of OUR LIVES are far better off for re-naming Moon Man. Don't you feel better already? No? Give it some time.