More Evidence that I Don't Understand the MPAA

[omorka]

Someone explain to me how But I'm a Cheerleader had to get cut to get an R instead of an NC-17, but Watchmen gets an R as shown? I mean, that has to be the hardest R ever. It's got more gore than any two average horror movies. It's got multiple sex scenes, one fairly explicit and extended. The Comedian says the fuck word twice a scene. There's smoking. There's drinking. Multiple characters explicitly disavow belief in God; there are a couple examples of gross blasphemy. And, of course, there's the nuclear blue wang.

What in the heck was in the first cut they gave them, that they removed it and it looked like an R in comparison?