Let’s cut all the pretension. Football is about sex and violence. A typical commercial promoting college football intersperses shots of violent whacks with cheerleaders getting guys’s hands up their skirts. I saw one yesterday with a prolonged shot of a girl with one leg vertical in what can only be described as a display of “spreading” prowess. There were only about three inches of fabric distinguishing her athleticism :rolleyes: from rank pornography.
We all know the Super Bowl is a bacchanalia. Sex, violence, and drinking. Is it any wonder that people think they can get away with virtually displaying a simulated rape at halftime? The act involving Jackson and Timberlake was described as a “flirtation.” Since when is ‘dry humping’ considered ‘flirtation’?
I believe the exposure was intended. But even…even if it wasn’t, you have to admit the facts. You have to admit that *something * was intended to be exposed, either bra or breast. And the sexually violent exposure of either one is inappropriate for a general broadcast where families are watching.
The argument is that each generation pushes the social limits of sexuality and that what is acceptable is ‘relative.’ If this is true then let’s just skip the long slide to absolute frankness and get right to the orgy. Let’s get the cheerleaders on their knees to suck the players to attention while the national anthem is being played and militaristic killing machines roar overhead in formation. That’s what I’d like to see. Instead of the pop-star prick teasing at halftime let’s have the “Halftime Hump” where the current bimbo diva (Madonna, Spears, Aguilera, etc.) tries to sing her current hit while taking it doggie style from the most valuable player of the first half (just think how exciting the first half would be then.) Miss Jackson was already bent over in a sexually receptive pose, I’m just saying if you’re going to go that far…
No, I have a better idea. Let’s keep pornography where it belongs (like on MTV) and keep public celebrations clean for everyone to enjoy.
I can’t wait to hear Bill O’Reilly tonight when he explains how the whole thing was a plot by Hillary Clinton and the ACLU to send this great country further into the pit of hellfire and damnation. Wotta’ putz!
The reaction at my house from about 20 people, 10 of which were kids 15 and under, ranged from “Why did they sing old songs for?”, to “Why didn’t they let the balloons go?”
Most of us were looking when Janet’s boob was flashed, but no one fainted or gasped or lost their virginity or had their eyes poked out or fell down and started praying for the soul of america or screamed or ran for the phone to complain to the network or denounced Janet and vowed never to buy her records again or convulsed or threw up or kicked the dog or committed suicide or died.
That’s why I was surprised this morning at all the attention Janet’s fuzzy boob got! Is this now the Soccer-Mom nation?
As part of a conspiracy to divert our attentions away from something else. Something More Important. Whatever that else is, we may never know. The truth is out there, but we cannot handle the truth.
Janet Jackson agreed to do such a stunt to revive her sinking career and to somehow generate sales in whatever she’s done lately to help her floundering brother’s legal problems a/o help the rest of the leeches known as her family.
She will come out in the future stating how embarrassed she was over the entire affair and, somehow manage to say she was hooked on drugs or something, which will explain the godawful partial wedding dress petticoat thing hanging off the backside of her during her first number. And she looked so…constipated.
As for Justin Timberlake. Blech. The kid look like he has perpetual razor burn and all the sexuality of a wet brown bag.
P.Piddy was awful and dressed like Huggy Bear and Kid Rock, despite wearing an American Flag ( which confuses me, but he is constitutionally proctected to dress as white trashy as he wants.) was the highlight of the show, and frankly, I’d still rather see Battle of the Marching Bands on the Field than what we’ve seen over the years.
From this moment on, we shall refer to this bizzarre incident as Boobgate
Yep. Basically nothing on the news channels today about the new Bush budget proposal and record $521 billion deficit. Only BOOBS, BOOBS, BOOBS (and maybe a little on the upcoming mammaries, uh, primaries).
Could it be another Bush/Republican conspiracy?
[And yes, i think it - or something close to it - was totally planned for its chock/career-enhancing value. Both from the run-up publicity and the song lyrics. Although the “hardware” was a bit of a surprise.]
Well, now the FCC has their collective bowels in an uproar over the “Tit Seen 'Round the World”. No wonder this country is so fucked up. I swear, we’re like a bunch of giggling fucking junior high kids. Oy!
I think all this jaded “What’s the big deal?” posturing in many of the posts here is a little off the mark. The Super Bowl is generally promoted as being a for-all-ages event; I’m not a parent, but really, should parents of young kids have to worry about former pop stars going through the motion of a mock-rape during a musical number? Of course no one was “irreparably damaged”- that’s not the point. But that doesn’t change the fact that it was tasteless and more than a little pathetic. So let’s call it for what it is, not shrug our shoulders and say, oh big deal, so we saw a boob.
“I am outraged at what I saw during the halftime show of the Super Bowl. Like millions of Americans, my family and I gathered around the television for a celebration. Instead, that celebration was tainted by a classless, crass and deplorable stunt. Our nation’s children, parents and citizens deserve better.”
Federal Communications Commission chief Michael Powell
I didn’t see the whole performance (couldn’t care less), but if the two of them were grinding as you all describe it, the tit pales by comparison. But kids see this thing on MTV all the time. I don’t think anyone is going to slip into phychosis over it.
Janet Jackson has been selling sex for a long, long time. What did they THINK she was going to do? If they wanted Mary Poppins, MTV is not the place to find her.
I had a front row seat at my local pub so I got to see the “malfunction”.
The funny thing is that a Catholic group were in the upstairs area (brought their own huge TV for the game). I asked their waitress what the group thought about it. Her response? “They loved it!” :eek:
I’m surprised anybody is surprised by the overreaction to this. MTV wouldn’t have done this stunt if they hadn’t known people were going to flip and give them more attention. But-
Mock-rape? I must’ve been watching a different channel. Or maybe I’m on a planet where ripping a woman’s top off (or grinding with her a little) isn’t rape.
