Do you personally know anyone who was offended by the SB halftime show?

[bluestateguy]

I have yet to meet anyone personally, in real life, who was actually offended by Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson's halftime show. Do you know anyone who was actually offended or outraged by this "incident"?

[Kamika]

1. Yes

Me and just about all my family.

edit: We weren't outraged but we didn't think it was fitting since kids were watching

[boobooday]

20. I found the erectile dysfunction ads much more disturbing

With verbal warnings about 'call your doctor if you experience an erection that lasts longer than 4 hours.'

Little children have presumably, most of them, seen a woman's breast. But have they ever considered a four-hour erection? Anyone have to explain that?

Jeanette
http://www.wgoeshome.com

[Kamika]

21. I've written this alot of times.

It wasn't just a tit, it was sex

[Rabrrrrrr]

29. It wasn't sex

it was celebration of violence against women.

Rape is not about sex, it's about power.

[Kamika]

32. well ok

Rape ain't exactly great for kids either

[Rabrrrrrr]

35. No, much and far worse than sex

that much is certain.

[wryter2000]

2. Yeah

A conservative writer friend.

The dh and I were watching CNN for the Moveon commercial. I probably would have been offended by the lack of quality of the music more than by the breast.

[Fenris]

3. No. We all thought it was hilariously staged

A crude attempt at controversy, and an attempt that succeeded, might I add.

[nini]

4. not outraged...

maybe a bit out of place, but not outraged in any way.

[Edge]

5. hell fucking no...

all my friends/people I know are NORMAL.

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. I'm always offended by it

because it's always artistic crap, and just proves to me that America, when it comes to "artistic celebration and interest" is the equivalent of rolling around in your own feces.

So, the boob didn't offend me - the stuntish and illiterate nature of it, and especially the tacit approval of violence against women meme it suggested, did. And the inclusion of talentless hackjob non-musicians in this, and countless other, halftime shows, pre-game shows, and etc.

That's what offends me. Not the boob.

Now if they had someone like, say, Steve Reich perform "music for Four Organs" while Brian Eno and David Bowie slowly drive a reel-to-reel tape drive and sampling unit through the heads of Justin Timberlake and Snoopy Doggy Doggy Doo Doo, then I wouldn't be offended.

[MuseRider]

9. Oh I SO agree with you.

Crap it was. I was however offended in another way. It wasn't the boob that offended me it was the manner of the way it was exposed. Made me think of rape and violence.

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Yes, me, too

I just added that to my post - I left it out.

Though as much as it had a ritualistic violence-against-women is okay attitude to it, I'm really so much more offended that our culture just cannot, for some reason, get a hold of the idea of doing something that's actually artistic and creative and wonderful, and instead celebrates mediocrity and utter banality.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

22. I was thinking last week...

that nothing is subtle anymore. Why does everything have to be shoved down our throats? What ever happened to imagination and beauty?

[Rabrrrrrr]

25. I wish I knew

At some point, there was a catastrophic shift in the natural psyche that went from an interest in things intellectual into a lowest common denominator Archie Bunker attitude that thinks Budweiser is the pinnacle of creation but an Belgium open-vat brew is "nasty", and that example can be paralleled into every art form, and every food genre.

Thus, people drive cross country, maybe even come to Times Square in NYC, but only want *@&#%@ Olive Garden and McDonalds because it's "safe" and "not so tasty that I have to think about it."

I don't know when that shift happened, but it happened a hell of a long time ago. Proabbly right after World war II.

But I do know this - the final, ultimate nail in the coffin was when the Olive Garden built the restaurant right at the pinnacle point of Times Square. That's when I knew that America had truly died as a viable culture.

[MuseRider]

24. Yup, agree.

I worked really hard to give my kids a good, solid musical background. Partly because I am a musician, partly in defense against that crap. Thankfully both are music majors with good taste, different than mine, but good solid music. I hate this other crap and none of it is real either. It is all image IMO.

[jpgray]

7. No. Almost every living person has seen a breast, from infancy on

It's just another part of the human body. "Shame" is good for the economy. :D

[jpgray]

18. It was pretty stupid and tasteless, but not offensive (nt)

[BlackVelvetElvis]

8. Me.

I wasn't offended by Janet's breast, but by a staged act of violent disrobing against a woman. I hope that young boys and girls didn't see that act as an acceptable way to treat women.

[Bonobo]

10. I was.

Not ready to explain the sexual politics of a men ripping off a woman's shirt to my 9 year old daughter. A little warning would have been nice. That's all.

Fortunately, she didn't actually see it. But if she had, I would indeed by pissed!

[trof]

11. I was totally grossed out.

I've never seen a live tit before in my life.
Eeeeuuuuuwwwww.
yuck

[bratcatinok]

12. I was as was my fiance

We had his mother and her 80 year old male friend over to watch the game. They were already uncomfortable with the way the halftime show was being presented and it only worsened when the "incident" happened.

In my opinion it showed a lack of taste and class.

[ant]

23. and as we very well know...

...the superbowl is all about taste and class. ;)

[pscot]

13. Yeah. Me

I thought it was a stupid and unwarranted intrusion into a pretty good football game. And I missed Ms.jackson's limited hang-out. I just thought the whole thing was a waste of time.

[lovedems]

15. No, everyone I know has the opinion

It is just a boob! My kids were watching and it happened so fast they didn't even notice it!

[childslibrarian]

16. I was offended

by the entire show. What a bunch of has-been losers and what poor performances...my kids are older, but if I had them sitting with me watching as young children I would have been offended at them watching some white guy tear the clothing off a young black woman...

[ConcernedCanuk]

17. I had no problem with the boob

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it was the OWNER of it .

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:evilgrin: . . . :evilgrin: . . . :evilgrin: . . . :evilgrin: . . . :evilgrin: . . . :evilgrin: . . . :evilgrin: . . . :evilgrin: . . . :evilgrin: . . . :evilgrin: . . . :evilgrin:

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. Obscure reference for the Zappa fans: Janet is Michael,

Michael is Janet,
I'm so confused now.
Who is Diana?!



I love that image! Took me a few moments before I noticed her face in his left hand. Brilliant of you!

[ConcernedCanuk]

40. neet eh? - I didn't notice the "mask" in the hand at first either - -

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but . . .

I can't take the credit for the PhotoChopping this time

It was sent to me by a webfriend in Wisconsin !

[damnraddem]

26. Yes. I've joked about it, but some are deadly serious.

Much of the criticism is not so much Justin's keeping a breast, as:
1) the media attention given the event;
2) the media attention given the half-time show; and
3) the reshowing and reshowing of the event.

I didn't see it, since I was boycotting the SB and CBS -- and still doing the latter -- over the MovingOn ad. And guess what -- I don't miss seeing it.

[DemoTex]

27. My dog was pissed

I think he wrote A$$croft.

[DrWeird]

28. I'm offended by people who are offended.

What a bunch of puritanical prudes. Go ahead and explain it to your five year old. She's probably more mature than you are.

[RC]

38. Yeah, what he said!

[qwertyMike]

30. I would say about 60 football players

Hey, it's America
It's about showbiz and golden arches and Demi and Aston and Monika and the stars & stripes and survivor and Regis and SUV's and Jacko and TV wars and dinners and car chases from a helicopter and the Market and the RICH and BIG and BEST and FASTEST and TALLEST and diets and how to please your man and golden things and Oscars and cowboys and cellulite . . .so on

Last week I was in Florence sipping vermouth in a sleepy town plaza.

I think somebody won something at the Grammys. So I heard

[BlackVelvetElvis]

33. Ditto

n/t

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[mohinoaklawnillinois]

34. No

I was watching the Super Bowl with my Irish born husband and one of his friends. All we did was laugh at the boob shot. They grew up in Ireland and one of the weekly things for them do was to check out Rupert Murdoch's News of the World for the topless girls. The next day they both said "Yanks get their knickers in a twist over nothing". The both of them are much more offended by Chimpy and his antics than by anything that was on the Super Bowl.

[YouMustBeKiddingMe]

36. No. But I didn't care for the idea of Justin exposing her.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

37. My mom...

But that doesn't really count. She gets offended when I say penis nonsexually.
Duckie

[LynneSin]

39. I was VERY offended by the halftime show

That half time act in general was dull and unentertaining treating football founds around the world as typical American Dingbats who have no taste in musical performance.

Plus what really offended me is the fact that CBS would NOT air the MoveOn commericial which I found offending to those of us who still believe in our constitutional freedom of speech.

I think that covers it all!!!

[ScreamingMeemie]

41. Yes, I have gotten three emails on it.

Sigh.

[RoeBear]

42. Maybe a better question would be...

...how should a candidate reply if asked about it? And you know they will be asked.

[Burma Jones]

43. No, I don't run with those sort of people

I have talked to people that think the whole thing is stupid though

[short bus president]

44. Yeah, but only, like, my IMMEDIATE family

and I dunno what the big deal is - they've all seen my nipples before.

[baldguy]

45. I was.

Not because of Janet's breast.

It was lame and stupid - and the music sucked.