Then let me put your "wonder" to rest.
The quality of the film is not a point of my discussion. The content is. The author of the opus on which the film is based has evaluated the sex scenes as pornographic. Gil, FrontRanger, and Lord knows who else have assumed that Americans will treat the film "unfavorably" before any action has even been taken by the MPAA. That is plain old prejudice on their part.
Honestly, I really don't care about the film one way or another. What I care about is the fact that people here at Bettermost seem to think its OK to be bigoted against Americans.
Oh, OK. When you said "we're supposed to accept this shit" I thought by this shit you meant the film. Maybe you were talking about Americans getting shit from critics like Gil and Lee.
Franky, I get slightly irked at knee-jerk criticisms of Americans, too. We may be more "prudish" in some ways than people in some countries, and we're obviously far LESS "prudish" than people in others. A reasonable analysis suggests that we're somewhere in the middle of the human range of prudishness. If the best that Gil can offer as proof of our prudishness compared to Canadians is that 13-through-16-year-old kids in Quebec can see movies without their parents that American kids can't, it seems a pretty weak distinction, and one I'm more or less willing to live with, especially since there are so many ways around it if you're really determined to have your 13-year-old see an R-rated movie without you (I speak from experience).
Frankly, I can think of far worse examples of American prudishness, but very few would be on-topic on this thread. (The only one I can think of that is -- and this was a particularly outrageous situation -- was that teenage bullying movie that got slapped with an R rating because it contained too many "fucks," thereby restricting its accessibility among the very audience it should have targeted.)
On the other hand, taking a little criticism is part of the price of being the world's most powerful country, of having our culture and movies so dominate the global market. It's kind of like prejudice against white people or straight people or men. It's not that it doesn't happen, nor that it doesn't sting or isn't morally objectionable, but it's not exactly comparable to prejudice against people who are in the non-power group.
And Americans are certainly not above crticism on any number of counts.
So my reaction to cultural criticism of the U.S., even when it comes from non-Americans, generally ranges from an annoyed shrug to vehement agreement.