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Now Here's a Really BIG Deal!
by
Dick Prosapio © 2003
Somebody got to see Janet Jackson's breast. Not her nipple by the way. Let's make sure we get that right, no nipples were actually viewed.
To quote my teens; "Ohmygod! Ohmygod!"
First of all, isn't there enough hoopla around the Super Bowl without (yet another) over-the-top "Event" stuck in between the halves of The Game? I mean really, just book the Grambling and Southern U bands and lets have some good ol' marching band fun without all of this junk! thrown in with what can, on occasion, be a good football game.
Nobody really cares about this stuff.........not really. Yeah, it's Party Time! for those who actually attend the thing, but I'm sure they can get their fill of all of that the night, or even the week, before kick off. To clutter up the half time with over amplified, underdressed, pointless low comedy is totally....................gee, I can't find the word
..............how about dumb?
This "thing", you know, is supposed to be aimed at the 17-49 year old males in the audience, because up to 16 and beginning at 50 all males are either too ignorant or too smart to care about any of this.
Does anybody really buy this stupid idea?
Hmmm, at two million for a 30 second spot, I'd guess somebody is being had......BIG time! Of course, I'm not interested in "Bud" or "Pepsi" or whatever else they are hyping. I'd just like to see a final, good game.
Even if the Packers aren't playing.
I can be flexible to some extent.
Secondly, what is the deal about breasts in this country? On one hand we actually had a report of people patronizing a store that specialized in things maternity, baby clothes, bottles, formulas, etc. who were upset by a magazine cover in the place showing a woman nursing a baby! And in some places, nursing in public is seen as unseemly, even nasty!, behavior.
On the other, we have female celebrities competing for "most revealing cleavage" prizes on award programs, "Wow! Was that JeLo's nipple showing" (without a pasty by the way) "or what?"
They don't call 'em the "Golden Globes" for nothing.
What are we afraid will happen if a woman's breast is seen? Is this the ol' If-men-see-a-breast-they-will-run-amok! thing? Do we think our teens will be destroyed by the display? Will small children suddenly have a genetic memory of being breast fed and regress?
Does anyone see that the rest of the, very, civilized world thinks this country is nuts about this?
Look, why don't we just get this whole thing over with? On the next exercise in narcissism called an "awards" show, the Emmy's, the Oscars, the Grammies, the Country Music Awards, the Peoples Choice Awards, the who-the-hell-knows-what-this-award-is-for? show, all the women do the thing topless. That way we'd all get excited about it, rave over how horrible (or beautiful depending on the presentation of course) and, after awhile, that would be the end of the national obsession.
We'd get bored with the whole thing and start being "titillated", I just thought I'd throw that in because I never really get a chance to use that word,.
............we'd start being titillated by the idea of total nudity!
Whoa! (To again quote my teens.)
Then we'd get over that too. (And this time the guys could get in on the act.)
In the end we could just be human beings and having bodies would be part of that.
Of course, the next thing would be, how overdressed can you get?
OOOOh! Now that would be a scandal.
Dick Prosapio ©2003, All Rights Reserved
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