Volume II No. 27
 02-03-04
 Janet Jackson's Naked Breast
 { What's The Fuss? }
 author: Vance Cureton
 © Copyright 2004

 February got off to a rousing start this year. Not only was 
 the "actual" Super Bowl game more than equal to the hype. 
 The world was granted a quick flash of Janet Jackson's 
 succulent brown booby.

 Whoopee!

 Despite the fact that half of the audience didn't even fully
 comprehend what had happened when Justin Timberlake 
 purposely { please don't argue this point } ripped off part 
 of her bodice at the end of their half-time show. The
 predictable cries of moral outrage have arrived at a warp 
 speed pace.

 And just as predictably the big shirts at CBS, Viacom, and 
 MTV are scrambling all over themselves trying to back away 
 from this debacle of their own making.

 "Bad, bad Janet. Don't you realize a proper lady doesn't do 
 such indecent things... Why can't you behave yourself like 
 that nice Beyonce who sang the national anthem before the 
 game. Shame, shame, shame on you..."

 This whole circumstance is almost too rediculously stupid
 to be believed. Did it really happen? Did Janet Jackson actually 
 bare her breast on national television before an audience 
 of { presumably } kids, mothers and fathers, young teens, 
 grandparents, etc. Did she and Justin Timberlake think this 
 outrageous routine would be okay? 

 What in the world were they smoking? 

 This is AMERICA - not Europe where the societies are 
 so much more culturally sophisticated about such things. 
 Over there they are probably laughing hard once again at
 those stuffy, sexually-repressed Americans. Just as they 
 did during the entire "oral sex in the White House" situation 
 with Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski.

 Janet undoubtedly disappointed a lot of people.-- But 
 in her defense, they are mostly old fogeys over forty 
 "who just don't get it." { she's thirty-seven herself, btw } 
 In fact, the entire Super Bowl broadcast was tainted by 
 numerous tasteless and crude commercials, all with a 
 strong sexual undertone.

 Can't today's most prominent advertisers come up with 
 imaginative ways to promote their products that don't 
 include an endless parade of sexual double-entendres 
 that are out of place during a "family-oriented broadcast." 

 Gee, where are those cute "California Raisins" when 
 you need them. 

 "I heard it through the grapevine..."

 This is the cultural milieu we find ourselves in these 
 days. The "b-word"is constantly repeated on daytime
 soap-operas. { it's okay, the children are in school -
 aren't they? } Most of the sitcoms on the air today 
make the old Bill Cosby sitcom of the 1980's look as 
quaint and irrelevant as 1950's Ozzie and Harriet.

 Late night talk show conversation frequently degrades 
 into musings about thongs, tattoos, body piercings, 
 girl-on-girl kissing, first-time sexual experiences and 
 other crudities. -- And we're talking broadcast television. 
 Not cable.

 America can be a terribly provincial nation. A nation
 who thinks that her moral values are second to none.

 But where to draw a responsible line? 

 Although, a naked breast flashed for barely a half-a-second 
 is hardly a national crisis. Janet's "act" didn't happen in
 a vacuum. There is a lot that is bad on television these
 days.

 But don't be deceived by those "who doth protest
 too much." All of this self-flagellation that's coming 
 from CBS. As well as the cries of  "investigation, 
 investigation," out of the mouth of the FCC's Michael 
 Powell is just a lot of hot air.

 And in case you haven't noticed, get ready, because 
 the politicians on Capitol Hill are also lining up to 
 get as much gain from this situation as possible.

 They all need to just sit back down and rest themselves.

 Standards are set in the living rooms of America. Not
 in some boardroom in Washington, D.C. When the 
 people who are in charge of the remote start changing 
 the channel, the big shirts in the big offices over at 
 CBS, ABC, and NBC, will get the message.

 The government has more important things to do than
 to waste a lot of time and expense investigating Janet 
 Jackson's breast. -- Why aren't the politicos in Washington 
 as indignant about some of the Bush administration's 
 shenanigans?

 Hmmm, but let us think abour Janet and Justin again. 
 A strip-tease act doing the Super Bowl. Shame. Shame.

 Who's brilliant idea was this? 

 And where in the world do they find these people?
 

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