Are you trying to justify the half-time show by declaring it the lesser of two "evils"? I've always viewed competitive sports, including full contact sports like football, as a medium to improve oneself mentally, physically, & socially and as a healthy way to blow off a little steam. Some of my very first lessons regarding self-discipline, mental & physical endurance, good sportsmanship, and unselfish behavior were learned on the playing field. To each his own, I guess.
As for the half-time show, all the outrage isn't because the majority of Americans are too prudish to handle seeing a bared breast. For many, this is a "proper time and place" issue.
Behavior that is acceptable at Mardi Gras, for instance, is not acceptable at a memorial service. Having a male stripper "take it all off" at a bachelorette party is fine, but having a male stripper as entertainment for your 6 year old daughter's birthday party is not. Simulated sex acts (er... I mean dancing) and partial nudity may be the norm on MTV these days, but it is not acceptable during a half-time show at the Superbowl on network TV. That's what all the ruckus is about.
Anyone who wants to see nudity can easily go to a strip club, watch an X or R-rated movie, or pick up a sleazy magazine. But, not everyone wants to see that. My 73 year old Catholic grandmother certainly doesn't. And, people like her shouldn't have that kind of smut thrown in their faces without any prior warning. How is what JJ & JT did to the television viewing audience any different from what a flasher does when he bares himself to an unsuspecting woman on the street?
It's all about time and place. Nudity on the Playboy channel? Fine. Nudity during Saturday morning cartoons? No. Not fine. Not fine at all.
No...ooo. I am pointing out that it is world-class hypocrisy to claim that what JJ and Timberlake did was kinky and inappropriate, as a half-time entertainment for a spectacle in which it is normal behavior for harems of half naked writhing niades to routinely display their charms to rouse their teams into physically destroying/humiliating/defeating (listen to the lyrics of the cheers) their opponents in a physical tussle that disturbingly resembles tribal warfare over the possession of what's traditionally an inflated pig organ. Just because you're used to it and don't think about it, doesn't make it something other than what it plainly is--ie. much kinkier, and much closer to a symbolic depiction of raw, orgiastic, uncivilized, physically damaging aggressive behavior with sinister sexual overtones than anything JJ and Timberlake did.
I've always viewed competitive sports, including full contact sports like football, as a medium to improve oneself mentally, physically, & socially and as a healthy way to blow off a little steam. Some of my very first lessons regarding self-discipline, mental & physical endurance, good sportsmanship, and unselfish behavior were learned on the playing field.
Me to. So What? That has about as much to do with nationally televised professional sports in general, and the superbowl in particular, as a cat has to do with a catamaran.
To each his own, I guess.
Indeed. And to each superbowl fan, apparently, his own little dream world, where he couldn't address the argument presented to him, if it bit him on the heiny.