The Constant Images of "Anna-Nicole" bumping and grinding with her baby's daddy in question

[KoKo]

that folks watched over and over and over. We wondered why the Media was obsessed with it. We were sick of it here on DU and so were many Americans...but the Media kept at it 24/7.

How did the MSCorporate Media portray Anna-Nicole. What I saw probably hundreds of times (before I jumped to turn it off) was Anna-Nicole posing in various outfits with boobs spilling over, hiking her skirts and playing to the camera more befitting a porn movie or MTV Video. She was made into a Cartoon Figure...a pathetic person who was immmoral, a gold digger and a whore.

Maybe what we missed about why the MSCorporate media was playing it over and over has something to do with the stuff that Imus and others are putting out there every day. The woman whore...the one who "asks for it" because she sought fame and "got herself in trouble because of her immoral actions." It plays to the Right Wing who never got over women and blacks getting the vote. It plays to the view of women as victims as tools ...to be used.

Anna-Nicole...Bad Woman, stole money from some old rich guy, bumps and grinds and whore's her way to stardom and has that baby whom no one can figure out who the father is. "Slut, Whore" but did she have a heart? Did she drug herself to death...did someone kill her for her evil ways?

"Nappy Headed, 'Ho's," "Tatooed Jigaboo's." Underclasses, (non-powerful women and blacks) who don't have the benefit of being Donald Trump's daughter or son. Or, Paris Hilton (of the Hilton fortune) who isn't in danger of being called out for her behavior because it's just frisky,in your face and kind of clueless, funny.

I never thought Americans would have to learn the lessons of the 1960's again about how speak and view each other and are spoken about and viewed by the MSM being so crucial to our culture and our children's self esteem. But, here's a FLOWER to us ....A faded 60's flower pressed in a book before the RW took over and made "Political Correctness" a bad word...and the backlash against that and "Corporate Greed Culture" managed along with the demise of the "Fairness Doctrine" to re-establish much of the ugliness of the 1950's into our Media.


Perhaps our "freedoms" are really just more "chains. Maybe we need to think more about what passes for "Entertainment."

[Dora]

1. Indeed, we do. n/t

[frogcycle]

2. the same bigoted assholes who

blocked the schoolhouse steps, brought out the firehoses, and fought the ERA are with us today, in probably the same proportions as then. Now they just have to be slightly less overt.

[monmouth]

3. Great post, many thanks. n/t

[JuniperLea]

4. Hugh Hefner has made billions on the bumps and grinds of others

Men are always going to want to buy this smut... money talks.

Internet porn is a multi-billion dollar industry... women will forever be looked upon as chattel as long as men continue to pay for this crap.

The problem is much deeper than the evening news, which is no longer the evening news. It's not even presented by news people anymore... there is more plastic surgery and silicon on the evening news now than there is news.

Anna Nicole is a symptom of a much greater problem.

All that said, there really should be something done to get the news back to being the news.

There will never be another Cronkite, sadly, unless there is a total revamping of the news industry.

[Clark2008]

9. Don't you feel it's gotten worse, though?

I mean the sexualization of women...

When I was a little girl, I had "respectable" clothing - you know - jeans, tops that covered my whole torso. I'm not saying we were a bunch of prudes, but my parents taught me that modesty goes a long way toward respect.

Fast foward to 2007 - I'm expecting my first girl next month. I've had nearly eight years experience raising a boy, so I'm not new to the child-rearing game; however, I have noticed something rather annoying.

Why are girls clothes now so, well, slutty? I'm serious - micro-mini's for toddlers, torso-bearing shirts for LITTLE GIRLS - all in colors so bawdy, it's enough to make a hooker blush. Hell, even toy makers in Britian were selling POLE-DANCING KITS to little girls!! WTF?!?!

Who are the parents who buy this crap for their daughters? I'm literally having to spend well more time than I have to shop for clothes for my future daughter that aren't that gawd-awful Barbie pink and plan for clothes (since they grow so fast) that don't look like she's stepped out of the Pink Pussycat or the Dollhouse.

I fear I'll be spending most of my daughter's life trying to tell her that, "Just because Suzie's Mom lets her go out looking like that doesn't mean you can," to which she may rebel and become worse. SIGH.

Again, I ask - why the hell are parents forcing their daughters to look like "whores?" Shouldn't we ALL be demanding better clothing (that isn't Barbie pink)? It's really awful out there. A little girl should be allowed - for at least the first few and formative years of her life - not having to worry about her looks or showing off her body. She'll have enough years of having to put up with that shit when she gets to be a teenager.

[JuniperLea]

10. I couldn't agree more

I feel your angst. A parent's perspective is certainly different than that of a 18 - 28 or so year old man... the "It" demographic... the one the world is trying so hard to please that they are turning our young girls into the pleaser wannabe for that same demographic... even at age 3! It's really sick when you think about it. Perceptions and perspectives are getting really whacked these days.

I had a conversation with a couple of men about several news stories regarding teachers becoming sexually involved with their students. My stance was that, as a parent, I must put my trust in these people and I surrender my children to them daily. The thought of a teacher, male or female, having sex with my child, male or female, under the age of 16, could easily cause me enough anger to be able to kill that person with my bare hands! To which the men replied, I dunno... seems to me if I were a kid and my hot teacher came after me, that would be a good thing! They were serious, really serious. I was agast... shocked and appalled! I countered that not everything a child wants is good for them; that's why they have parents. They countered by saying, it's a natural urge; a lot of kids have crushes on their teachers... it's a natural progression of that and the world makes too big a deal of it all. To which I countered, then the world should forgive me when I kill that person with my bare hands, because that, after all, would be my natural reaction and the reaction of thousands of mothers just like me! Honestly. I can't figure out what has happened to people!

Now we are expected to sexy up our kids from birth! No one learned a damn thing from the whole JonBenet debacle... and I bet none of that caused even a pause in those stupid baby beauty contests!

What to do? I'm perplexed and saddened.

My daughter is 22, and some would call her a prude. I think she is loaded with self-respect. She did her share of dressing up in high heels and such, but she was always very modest when it came to showing too much skin. I wish I could take credit for it, but I honestly can't put my finger on any turning points or moments of enlightenment that led to her being this way. Maybe it was having older brothers?

There was a Simpson's episode in which little Lisa Simpson is having trouble finding clothes for exactly the reasons you state. I'm sure there are plenty of viewers who laughed at her for being a prude.

[juno jones]

5. Found a 70's era MS. Magazine book in a free bin

at the local bookstore. It was full of compiled articles featuring optimistic young women of all races getting educations, playing sports, serving the country, and having careers. I remembered reading it a my friend's mother's place back in the 70's. I picked it up out of nostalgia, looked thru a few pages and put it back because it made me want to cry. These bastards have cheated us out of 30 years of progress on every single front. We need to learn these lessons again. As repititious as the Imus thing was, it got people talking. Seriously talking about the content of our media and what we become when we tolerate this kind of destructive rudeness. I want young women to have hope again...like they did in those pictures so long ago.

[KoKo]

6. Gloria Steinhem & New Yorker Magazine got me out of Backwoods of SC and

Marlo Thomas ("Free to Be You and Me") and Mr. Rogers guided my daughter who was born in the Media Generation.

I fear for those today with so few role models that they can see on TEE VEE and in the MSCorporate Media.

Yes...I could have chosen to be a Playboy Bunnie (actually had a friend who was and loved it but went back to college on the money she made). But, what we are seeing today isn't the "Playboy Bunnie" choices of yesteryear portrayed in our Media. It's come A LONG WAY...since those days.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. Funny stuff.

I love how people go to lengths to justify their voyeurism in this train wreck.

[WinkyDink]

8. Anna Nicole bought into the American Dream. The Dream that worships "Hef" and "The Girls Next Door".

Let's not be disingenuous here. She was a beautiful buxom blonde in a society that places such above all other women. She gave us what we wanted, complete with a wink and a smile.

That she couldn't live with that persona without drugs says more about us than about her, perhaps.

In any event, all evidence says she was a devoted mother; that her geezer husband loved her and freely married her; that her other men adored her; and that she harmed no one.

RIP, Anna Nicole.