I don't get it.

[den]

Janet Jackson left exposed on TV

Apparently her breast was a bit exposed during the Superbowl half time show.

"CBS quickly cut away from the scene but was still flooded with calls from angry viewers about the half-time entertainment, produced by MTV. "

Angry about what? A bit of boobies? If that happened over here most people would be laughing and cheering, and scorning those wowsers who think people don't have naughty bits.

Comments

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

I personally don't get it either. I could care less about naked breasts on TV...well, unless of course they are quite fetching breasts.

But really...it would be an issue for me if I found out the act was an act of sexual harassment from Justin to Janet, and not that her breast got exposed. I think breast exposure is okay, but displaying sexual harassment to people of all ages on such scale in the context given is promoting the wrong ideas.

I suspect that a good number of the people making the most noise about this are a block of wowsers with serious voting power. They may be in the minority, but they're vocal and they act as if optional voting is compulsory so they tend to have a major impact on American politics. They are also organised, with actual nonprofit organisations/churches.,,and even boycott those companies sponsoring shows...and send letters to the editor in many papers across the country and such.

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[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

According to a caller to JJJ this morning it looks like she's wearing a pasty, which are uncomfortable to wear and you would wear one under your clothes if you didn't have to.

I wouldn't know, being a bloke and all.

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[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

Actually, it wasn't a pasty...it was a nipple piercing with a nipple shield. So a little nipple was exposed as well as arieola...oooo. Big deal there. *shrugs*

I don't understand America. I've tried. And I've lived there.

San Francisco doesn't count...it is just barely American (running joke).