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| Mon, 02-02-2004 - 12:33pm |
I hate to be out of it, but the networks aren't replaying it.....
What exactly happened at that halftime show?????
| Mon, 02-02-2004 - 12:33pm |
What exactly happened at that halftime show?????
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More on Nipplegate...........
>"At the very least, he said, it punctures the argument of people who say that those who are bothered by things on TV just shouldn't watch.
"How do you turn off the Super Bowl?" Copps asked.
"There is going to be a national conversation on this," said Brent Bozell, president of the Parents Television Council, which has long complained about sex and violence on the tube. "I think what this has done is sensitized the public.""<
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I heard on the news this morning that some bank teller in Knoxville, TN has filed a class action suit against Janet Jackson, et al, 'on behalf of all Americans' because of the 'trauma' inflicted by her bare breast!
What these performers don't understand is they upstaged the entire football game. The performers were hired for their services as an act, they were not the headline act the football players were. What Janet and Justine ended up doing was stealing the show from the players. How much of the game has been talked about? Zilch. All we are hearing about is "Nipplegate". Who is the MVP of the Superbowl??, What were the great plays in the game?? I haven't heard and I really don't wanna ask my husband. (I'll go to superbowl.com to get my info on the game) The point I'm trying to make is bottom line Janet and Justine up staged the Superbowl. Instead of performing as an act they wanted to shock the nation and the world. Now, I really could careless if she wanted to show off her breasts, however do it at HER show where the people bought tickets to see her perform. I don't think of Superbowl as a family event, but I did not enjoy the half time shows at all. I was very surprise that Kid Rock made it though any of his songs. I thought when he walked out it was gunna sound like an episode of the Osbourne's with all the beeps as he was singing. In my opinion the half time show was terrible.
Another opinion about the Nipplegate incident. Valid IMO.
The problem isn't the breast, it's violence against women.
>"The real shock was that a man would rip off a woman's clothes -- planned or not -- and we would talk only about what was exposed in the process. It doesn't matter whether her wardrobe malfunctioned. What matters is that he was messing with her wardrobe in the first place.
''It's a very sad day for society when a bare breast is more offensive than the glorification of sexual violence,'' said Barbara Shaw, director of the Illinois Violence Prevention Authority, a state agency charged with attempting to stem the tide of violence in this country. " is so pervasive that we don't even know it when we see it.''
As regular readers know, I had not planned to watch the game despite the fact that I am a rabid football fan. I have given up watching most sporting events because don't want my kids to see the television commercials that are increasingly inappropriate for most adults.
Fortunately, I had been forewarned that erectile dysfunction -- including a new drug that carried the ominous warning that erections lasting more than four hours might require medical attention -- would be among the features of the Super Ads. Hearing that news, I had vowed not to watch for fear of having to explain erectile dysfunction to a 10-year-old and 7-year-old."<
>"''Mommy, why is that man holding his penis?'' my daughter asked.
''I'm not sure, honey. Maybe he's afraid it's going to fall off,'' I replied before turning my attention back to the screen.
I should have turned off the television then, but I was mesmerized. It was as though I was watching a train wreck about to happen. Then it did.
Timberlake reached across Jackson's bodice, grabbed hold and yanked.
''My thought when I saw it and he pulled that piece off and she reacted so submissively, was 'That's outrageous,' " said Kathleen Doherty, executive director of Friends of Battered Women and Their Children, a domestic violence agency that also works with teens in abusive relationships.
''We're trying to teach kids here how to avoid teen dating violence in their relationships, how to show respect, girls respecting boys and boys respecting girls," Doherty said, adding that when sexual violence is depicted as a normal interaction between a man and a woman, the message is "all twisted.""<
Quotes from..........
http://www.suntimes.com/output/richards/cst-edt-cindy08.html
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