Posted on: Thursday, January 29th, 2004 by Nina May
I wish I could have been fly on the wall during the producer's conversation
about the Super Bowl halftime porn show. The wardrobe artists were accused
of not making a strong enough outfit for Janet Jackson, the producers claimed
it wasn't done like
that
in rehearsal, the NFL heads said they had promises from the MTV crowd that
the show would be acceptable to all ages, and the audience was sucker-punched.
That would be like saying you were shocked to discover that Hustler had a
couple of raunchy photos in it. Hello, the halftime show was produced by
MTV, not Nickelodeon.
Everyone is floundering in a giant stew of
mea culpa but this still doesn't answer the question on everyone's mind.
What was the point? Did Justin feel he had to do something to show his ex-girl
friend, Britney Spears, who sucked face with Madonna on national TV, that
he was just as hip? He wanted to make sure his 15 minutes of fame lasted
30 seconds longer than hers after that ridiculous display of in-your-face
excess.
Was the point that the actions had to match the words to the song which
said, I am going to have you naked by the end of this song?¯ What in the
world are they singing a song about having sex and getting naked at the Super
Bowl which is supposed to be about football? Hello, this isn't the SEX Bowl,
or the Super Boob.
What message was this display of degradation and molestation supposed
to send to the viewing public? What impact does a dance with girls dressed
as whores, and a white boy insinuating S&M on an African-American girl
have on young kids today? Are girls supposed to now fear that society sanctions
such behaviour by young men who get paid big money to ravage women in public?
Doesn't that seem so ancient Rome¯ and totally uncivilized, where the nubiles
were brought in, chained to large wagons, then stripped to the waste to show
the wares and sold to the highest bidder? Come to think of it, there has
been a history of that in our not-to-distant past. To see young kids, under
the direction of knowing adults, acting out this type of degradation for
the amusement¯ of millions gives one pause. Just what are we teaching kids?
Are young men now to think that girls like that kind of treatment and could
care less if the red lace underwear breaks away with the outer garment, as
long as they get what they want, when they want it? Hello feminists, you
have been pitched a soft ball here . . . I don't see anyone taking a swing
at it. You can't still be sitting on the same apathetic, myopic bench of
double standards where you sat out the Clinton years.
I am curious to know how cute little kids like Justin, Britney and Christina,
go from singing M-I-C-K-E-Y-M-O-U-S-E to molesting women, performing lesbian
acts and dancing with snakes unless they had been told that it would catapult
their careers beyond the mouse ears. But catapult to what?
Christina has graduated to a highly paid porn star with a good voice,
but even the guys are shocked by her performances and sleaziness. Not someone
you want to take home to meet mom. And Britney was already on that sultry
slide to skin and sex before she let Madonna perform a tonsillectomy on her
with her tongue. Was there a sense of competition between the three that
now Justin had to prove himself as a Class A pervert, or have all these performers
just totally lost touch with reality?
Are there no adults in their lives who really do believe that they should
nurture character qualities like integrity, virtue, humility and gentleness?
Were they just surrounded by greedy adults who, having lost their own innocence,
saw big bucks in selling the innocence of these kids and others like them,
knowing their performing days were numbered? Did no one think to tell these
kids that not everyone in the world lives by the same rules the entertainment
industry does, and this does not make the rest of the world weird, or right
wing, or intolerant, or judgmental. It just means the rest of the world is
responsible, thoughtful and incensed when they are dissed the way they were
Sunday night.
In the past, it used to be that the young kids would shock the adults
to prove they were independent and capable of free expression. But that has
been changed so drastically, and so fast, that now it is the adults moving
the children into roles that defile their innocence, stunt their growth,
destroy their lives. Child porn is a multi-billion dollar industry run by
adults who exploit and abuse children. The entertainment industry is run
by adults who sign children younger and younger and age them quicker and
quicker so they have a longer shelf life before they become disposable commodities
in their early twenties . . .used up before their time. Young girls are exploited
and lied to by adults in the abortion industry that accomplishes the goal
of destroying two lives with every abortion. The adults in education, the
library associations, and academia all see our young boys and girls as pimps
and prostitutes and desire only that they control their sexually transmitted
diseases not their sexual appetites. They applaud and condone destructive
consequences of these dangerous lifestyle choices, while jeering and condemning
kids who choose abstinence as means of insuring safe sex.¯
The critics of the critics of this new immorality¯ have become so jaded
and encased in a cocoon of apathy and cynicism that they really don't see
what all the commotion is about. Heh, if you've seen one boob, you've seen
them all,¯ begs the question then why is pornography still, annually, after
all these boob-filled years, a multi-billion dollar industry? Why does MTV
keep selling sex if the market is saturated? But for a woman who is molested
against her will, it is still a traumatic and devastating event that can
scar her for a lifetime. To promote such molestation, abuse and dehumanization
sends a subtle message to would-be victims, and would-be attackers. Brace
yourself Kate, because he is somehow validated in his actions toward you,
by MTV, the NFL, CBS, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake, etc.
Out of curiosity, where are the compassionate liberals, the feminists,
the human rights activists, the civil rights activists who love the rhetorical
jabs but do nothing to stem this tide of debauchery that is aimed at our
kids? And, sorry, but more money from the Federal Government will NOT solve
this problem. It is one that can only be solved by instilling a new respect
for human life back into our country. A respect for decency and integrity.
Instead of trashing groups like, the Boy Scouts, for example, for wanting
to remain virtuous and decide who they want to be intimate with, and in what
way, we should be honoring children who have decided, as their CHOICE, to
live a certain lifestyle and protect their innocence.
There is an age when all little Mouseketeers grow up, become responsible
for their actions and suffer the consequences. But in the case of little
kids who never had a childhood, who have always been handled¯ by adults
and have never been taught right from wrong, then it is hard to hold them
accountable for the incredibly stupid and self-destructive things adults¯
have been telling them to do for their careers. But hopefully, we can ALL
learn from their mistakes.
Articles by Nina May
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