Grow A Spine

I have a couple of things, as a mother of small children, to say about all of the freaking out everyone is doing over the Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake performance last night. Okay so that may not have been the time slot or network for what went on but neither are the content of half of the commercials, movies trailers, sit coms, made for tv movies, comedies or dramas that are on the same networks in the same time slots on any other given day. If you are offended by nudity or sex or even the slightest implication of either you might as well give up and throw your television away. It is there every single day. On every channel.

However, and I can't believe I am about to say this because even I am easily offended by the use of nudity and sex to sell anything, it is just a breast. It doesn't matter what you call it or how you package it. It really doesn't even matter if it was proceeded by the otherwise acceptable bumping and grinding that no one seems so uptight about any other year. Pastie or no pastie it is still just a freaking breast. Does it really warrant public apologies and denial of intentions? It doesn't matter what the circumstances are that it was exposed. It is just a breast. If you see a mother with exposed breast feeding a baby in a commercial you don't gasp and turn the channel. You don't walk into an art museum and insist that the statues need to cover up. Under those circumstances it is perfectly natural. Well you freak over a nursing mother if you are a closed minded immature asswipe. I understand that the half-time show was a bit much on the adult content but isn't most of what you see on television?

As a woman who isn't ashamed to talk about vibrators and how much wearing leather boots turns her on, if you are going to do this stuff live for millions of people to watch, don't be a puss about it. Issuing apologies after the fact and trying to deny that it was intentional while it was perfectly synched to the words "gonna have you naked by the end of this song" just makes you look like a fucking corporate puppet. If you are going to do it, just fucking do it. People may not have approved of it but if you were really that bold you wouldn't fucking care either way. At the very least I would have respected you more in the morning.

The whole thing is getting way too much attention. The amount of media coverage the whole thing is getting is more disturbing than anything they actually did.

Posted by gwendolyn on February 02, 2004 at 02:37 PM