The Boob and the Superbowl as a whole.

[tinhuviel]

Okay, I watched my Superbowl tape last night. Loved some of the commercials, especially the AOL High Speed adverts. The one where the dude travels back in time because his car is so fast with AOL attached to it is genius.

Anyway, I beheld the Boob Scene and, to be honest, I wasn't offended at all. I'm more offended by people's reaction to this than anything. If they're all going to be prudes about it, why aren't they bitching about Nelly constantly cupping his balls throughout his performance? I was more horrified by the butchering of "Mickey" than I was by the so-called sexual connotations of the Half Time performance.

If America doesn't get its collective head out of its collective ass when it comes to sexuality, we're all going to be so sexually repressed as a nation (like we aren't already), that rape, murder, and perversion statistics will constantly and swiftly rise. Why can't people see that denial of one's nature is what breeds perversity in the first place? One look at the Catholic Church should be proof enough of this. The Church would be so much better off if they'd let their clerics get some legal nookie instead of enforcing sacred celibacy. What a crock!

So Janet flashed some skin. Big fucking woo. There are tribes of people worldwide that show more skin than that on a daily basis and they live almost totally free of the threat of sexual assault.

To be honest, I was more horrified by the militant patriotic zealotry at the beginning of the game. It would be hilarious if it weren't so scary, having had the potential to be a scene cut from the movie Starship Troopers.

The best performance by far was Josh Groban's. He has an uncanny voice and I really loved the way he was decked out in Tom Baker-era Doctor Who duds.

So, that's my take on the whole thing.

Comments

[maddycross.livejournal.com]

Anyway, I beheld the Boob Scene and, to be honest, I wasn't offended at all. I'm more offended by people's reaction to this than anything. If they're all going to be prudes about it, why aren't they bitching about Nelly constantly cupping his balls throughout his performance? I was more horrified by the butchering of "Mickey" than I was by the so-called sexual connotations of the Half Time performance.

Amen! It was just a boob!

[irenes.livejournal.com]

hear hear! I was gonna post something similiar actually, but hadn't gotten around to it yet. I was listening to NPR at lunchtime yesterday and this guy called saying how offended he was blah-blah-blah and utterly convinced that it was a conspiracy perpetrated by bigwig executives at CBS. He had apparently been watching the Super Bowl with a Church group and "had to cover his children's faces" so that they would not be "assaulted" by the offending boob. What gets me is what I've read about the rest of that performance. I mean Janet's wearing all kindsa shiny bondagey stuff and bumping and griding and being generally "rude" with Mr Timberlake. The lyrics of the song were apparently pretty "racy" too. Why on earth would he have been letting them watch the halftime show at all? But OH MY GOD! NOT A BOOB! Where does this obsession with self-loathing come from? Is it really Christianity? I don't think Christianity teaches anything of the sort and I know my theology backwards and forwards. Modesty and decency yes, but the entire halftime show was just as guilty of being lacking in those qualities. There's nothing inherently satanic about boobs. Lol. I wonder if it's more of a hatred of woman thing? I guess guys just don't have a boob-equivalent so it's hard to tell. I'm sure if some guy flashed his pecker there'd be an uproar but comparing boobs and dicks is apples and oranges. Or should I say ... oranges and bananas :P

I guess it's just the mutilation of Christianity by the simple, moronic, terrified population of sheep.


Don't get me wrong ... if she did it on purpose I still think it was pretty tasteless and gauche but certainly not anything worth all of this ridiculous uproar. Celebrities do tasteless and gauche things all the time.

[furnacechant.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Half of the local news broadcast last night was dedicated to this. You can not tell me that nothing more important than the momentary exposure of a single female breast occurred in the world in 48 hours time. As for people whining about it being a bad influence on their children, I'd think the game of football itself, not to mention the barrage of commercial messages, would be far more damaging to young minds than this one little incident. Are we going to ban anatomy class now?