Over at Bloody Elbow, Luke Thomas is equally as aghast as our Mike Wilkerson about TUF Episode 8 which he refers to as “primate behavior”:

….the calls for some of us to “lighten up” only prove they don’t understand the argument. At all. No one is upset that someone ate jizz per se. I am not a vice cop. There’s certainly a place and a time for that. Anyone who is a fan of pornography can attest as much. On a personal level I have no problem with it and am willing to say so to anyone who cares to listen. But this site isn’t as meaningful or important as TUF. What I and others are upset about is the conflation of that sort of programming with what is ostensibly MMA programming and what message it could send to skeptics and neophytes who view MMA with a dubious eye (I talked about this yesterday, folks). Given that some people who are in positions of power are part of that demographic, it’s actually a very worthy consideration. If you think there’s no meaningful opportunity cost in running programming like that with MMA on the sport’s biggest show (which itself is strange), you’re dreaming.

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