I was 13 when Basic Instinct came out. Today, 89 percent of teens have a smartphone, and probably look at worse stuff with enough regularity that they can recognize the intro beat to Pornhub clips.
Anyone seriously complaining about this as a moral panic is seriously out of touch with the world, and has been for decades.*
*Or complaining just to try and annoy the liberals.
I empathize with the poor kid whose mom inadvertently outed her son on social media for getting worked up over a trivial thing like The Wiggles.
Masturbation is not a crime. And if it is, I’m getting life without parole.
You’re welcome.
“we don’t expect the world to act like the church”
You mean the rapey organized child abusing church? The nerve of this piece of shit to claim moral guidance, go fuck yourself.
Is this the same Franklin Graham who is having his UK tour cancelled left right and centre because of his unacceptable views on - well pretty much everything?
“Oh no! Not more time alone in my room! anything but that!”
There is a bigger issue of women not wanting to be seen constantly as sex objects, and then women presenting themselves as such
This isn’t a bigger issue, dude. It’s really very very very very very simple: women (and men) get to choose when, where, and how they receive sexualized attention from others.
So, it’s just me that assumed the “mother” was trolling Christians Leviticans?
I like the “I wouldn’t let my daughter do that!” responses. If their daughters are “doing that” when they’re 50 years old, like JLo, the dads will have fuck-all to say about it, assuming they’re even still alive.
Well, I substituted Prince’s 2007 half time show for the one on offer. Perhaps I shouldn’t have? Nah
My wife said her FB was blowing up this morning with people scandalized by the performance, and other people telling them to chill. Really surprised me, because my wife’s FB is largely atheist/pagan, and I associate this kind of outrage with evangelicals.
I saw the performance, and I did think there were some intentionally cringy camera angles. It was a weird experience. At that moment, I recognized that the performer was intentionally choreographed toward the camera for what was literally an up-skirt. But I’m pretty sure Shakira has the agency to decide what she will and won’t do, and I’m the commodity whose eyes they want glued to the screen.
This is tiny violin territory at best, but it still doesn’t feel great.
i watched a bit of the performance, but i’m happy (in a way) that this is the “controversy” that has erupted around it. being so “sexual” is just such a minor thing… the sole comment i saw in my timeline that really saddened me was someone saying that the halftime show “should be in english, because this is america” – i mean, i think that because it’s america it makes much more sense to have the performance be multi-lingual. i mean, this person was completely ignoring not only the artists but also the location of the damn game, for starters. if an artist can’t bring their heritage into their performance in recognition and appreciation of the large percentage of fans who also share (or even just appreciate) that heritage, then we’re just not the country we aspire to be. give me pearl-clutching over sexy dancing any day over racist bullshit like that.
“Yeah, honey, he stormed off to his room, and now he’s blasting that old MJ classic again”:
No chance of getting off?
If her son was really that upset over women performing the halftime show, look for him to be prowling around in 15-20 years ala the Green River killer.
I always miss the good parts because they are embedded in all that sports junk, and they can’t even keep to a schedule.
At least it’s over for the year, I think. So some regular programming returns. Though, some other sport is bound to eat into regular programming.
Agree. Probably a similarly craven bid for eyeballs and post event press that brought us The Wardrobe Malfunction.
I thought JLo’s were more cringey. Overall, though, I would rate it at “Everybody Simmer Down, it’s not 1950”.
