Big frickin whoop.
Feb. 2nd, 2004 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundOkay, as a rule of thumb I usually don't watch the Stupid Super Bowl. I have far more interesting things to do - like watch paint dry. And any interesting commercials will usually end up on the web anyway.
So I'm amused over the whole "Oh my god we actually saw Janet Jackson's tit on TV!!!" tempest in a teacup thing.
First off, I strongly doubt it was an accident. Unless she likes wearing huge nipple jewlery under her top, it was pretty obvious, (based on the endless replays on the TV to "protest this indiginity") that it was staged.
And if so, who bloody cares?? Western civilization will not be destroyed because someone saw some boobage on the tube. The only reason why people are frothing at the mouth over it is because the US has some pretty strange cultural taboos against such things. As a culture, we're really not far removed in places from the Puritans.
As for being aroused, well, I dunno about you, but I can measure my desire to see a topless or nude Janet Jackson in micro-give-a-shits. She does *nothing* for me save a giant "yawn". Personally, the only reason I suspect she ever posed topless or nude was to prove she wasn't her brother, Michael.
Yet the media is having a flipping field day over this crap. Whatever the media whores do to promote their ratings I guess.
So I'm amused over the whole "Oh my god we actually saw Janet Jackson's tit on TV!!!" tempest in a teacup thing.
First off, I strongly doubt it was an accident. Unless she likes wearing huge nipple jewlery under her top, it was pretty obvious, (based on the endless replays on the TV to "protest this indiginity") that it was staged.
And if so, who bloody cares?? Western civilization will not be destroyed because someone saw some boobage on the tube. The only reason why people are frothing at the mouth over it is because the US has some pretty strange cultural taboos against such things. As a culture, we're really not far removed in places from the Puritans.
As for being aroused, well, I dunno about you, but I can measure my desire to see a topless or nude Janet Jackson in micro-give-a-shits. She does *nothing* for me save a giant "yawn". Personally, the only reason I suspect she ever posed topless or nude was to prove she wasn't her brother, Michael.
Yet the media is having a flipping field day over this crap. Whatever the media whores do to promote their ratings I guess.
