headbang8: [quote author=DeeBlackthorne link=board=meetgreet;num=1075825894;start=0#14 date=02/03/04 at 21:05:05]
Okay, here's my take. I think you make good points overall, but I politely disagree with the resulting consequence of your judgment.
...The performance was... provocative... and yes, it bordered on titillating (no pun intended), but the game continued unerred. I highly doubt that one tit really upset the balance of the game that much...
...and if we are to make such accusations, let's just take a look at that streaker fellow.
...The stunt was in questionable taste, and though I'm unsure just how much of the audience consisted of younger viewers, I remember hearing screams of excitement -- not boos, jeers, guffaws, or torches being ignited in fury and condemnation. Hell, I was screaming like a damn fool in sexual excitement, too.
But are we to make heavy-handed judgments? What I mean is, how degenerate of a nation can we possibly be to emphasize this incident, knowing good and damn well that our everyday programming is riddled with violence, gender politics, drugs, harsh depictions, and plenty of gratuity boobie? Sure, MTV's played heavily into that titillation angle to satisfy its younger demographic, but come now, we've seen it before and we've seen it plenty. If this were Victorian England, oh God yes, we shalt scream and fuss! But wake up. It's 2004 and it hardly qualifies as a travesty.
...But, seriously, lighten up. Like I said, we see way worse on a day-to-day basis...
Ease down.[/quote]
Hear, hear.
As an American who has lived much of my life overseas, I can confirm what several posters have said. At times like this, the rest of the world rolls its eyes, shrugs its shoulders and wonders what Americans are so upset about THIS time.
If a woman's breast is obscene, and two teams of grown men beating the crap out of each other on the playing field is not, then America has its values screwed.
If a kid can reach the age of 5 in America having witnessed thousands of murders on TV but never see a breast, then we need more breasts on TV!
Replace every act of violence on TV with a pair of boobs, and America will be a better place.
To use Dee's words, "questionable taste" is not the same as "immoral". The materialism that commercial TV spawns is far more morally questionable than ogling a tit.
(And I say that in the full knowledge that I make my living in commercial TV. THAT keeps me awake at night more than sexual guilt over anything I--or anyone else--have done, seen or desired)
Besides, thanks to a politically motivated impeachment attempt led by the very same conservatives that complain most loudly about exposing kids to sexual material, every 5th-grade history student will know the difference between a blowjob and going all the way.
Someday, I want to see Janet's tit on display in the Smithsonian, with crowds of schoolkids lectured on how curious it was that early 21st century Americans thought it was such a big deal.
Grow up, America!
hb8
(By the way, I was amused to read that a White House spokesman made it clear that President Bush switched off the SuperBowl before half-time. He's lying! He ogled Janet's titties like everyone else! Impeach him!)
