One Black Breast Uproots America
Millions of Americans were shocked to see Janet Jackson's breast and her crazy looking "nipple shield." Didn't even know they made them. Shows you how much I know about kids these days.
Funny how America, the land of repressed sexual hipocrasy, just freaked OUT, like, one breast bared on TV and the whole nation just cannot handle it. Like someting broke, ruptured: maybe the thin little barrier that separates desire and repression. I suppose living in California makes me think that the rest of our nation is diverse and worldy, but in reality, our nation is quite conservative. Sad, but we're a nation of pasty puritains. (Puritains are always pasty.)
I'd like to know: Just what is the problem with a breast? Ok, so I realize people weren't expecting it, and God knows nothing is worse than being suprised by naked boob. Also, I agree it was tacky and tawdry, and it was deceitful, dishonest, even desparate for poor Janet to think that was the best way to get publicity. MTV and the Super Bowl folks were cheated by JJ and JT. But again, what is so bad about a breast? Why is it horrible if a child sees it? Is the child damaged forever seeing this breast, even though the child probably breast fed when he/she was little. Is my life corrupted now that I've seen her black breast? Should I now sue CBS for forcing me to see a breast I didn't want to see? My life doesn't feel ruined. I sleep just fine.
The sad part is that while we're so repressed as a nation that a single breast causes the country to erupt in puerile indignation, we're perfectly OK with violence and adolsecent humor: violence of the game of football is OK, violent movies are OK, dumb scatological advertisements aimed at a 13 year old humor level is OK. But along comes one little black breast with a silver nipple shield and America is going to the devil.
To me, the devil and his minions are not in the breast, in a woman's body, but in the self righteousness and goody goody-ness or those who, out of fear and repression and ego, project their own neurotic, mutated morality onto the rest of the world. Therein lies Satan, laughing and doing his dirty work among the pasty white Puritains.
Millions of Americans were shocked to see Janet Jackson's breast and her crazy looking "nipple shield." Didn't even know they made them. Shows you how much I know about kids these days.
Funny how America, the land of repressed sexual hipocrasy, just freaked OUT, like, one breast bared on TV and the whole nation just cannot handle it. Like someting broke, ruptured: maybe the thin little barrier that separates desire and repression. I suppose living in California makes me think that the rest of our nation is diverse and worldy, but in reality, our nation is quite conservative. Sad, but we're a nation of pasty puritains. (Puritains are always pasty.)
I'd like to know: Just what is the problem with a breast? Ok, so I realize people weren't expecting it, and God knows nothing is worse than being suprised by naked boob. Also, I agree it was tacky and tawdry, and it was deceitful, dishonest, even desparate for poor Janet to think that was the best way to get publicity. MTV and the Super Bowl folks were cheated by JJ and JT. But again, what is so bad about a breast? Why is it horrible if a child sees it? Is the child damaged forever seeing this breast, even though the child probably breast fed when he/she was little. Is my life corrupted now that I've seen her black breast? Should I now sue CBS for forcing me to see a breast I didn't want to see? My life doesn't feel ruined. I sleep just fine.
The sad part is that while we're so repressed as a nation that a single breast causes the country to erupt in puerile indignation, we're perfectly OK with violence and adolsecent humor: violence of the game of football is OK, violent movies are OK, dumb scatological advertisements aimed at a 13 year old humor level is OK. But along comes one little black breast with a silver nipple shield and America is going to the devil.
To me, the devil and his minions are not in the breast, in a woman's body, but in the self righteousness and goody goody-ness or those who, out of fear and repression and ego, project their own neurotic, mutated morality onto the rest of the world. Therein lies Satan, laughing and doing his dirty work among the pasty white Puritains.
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