On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:57:03 -0700, Michael Smith wrote: >Perhaps we shouldn't care > >It's amazing how juvenile people are.
I agree with you 100%. I remember back to the SuperBowl wardrobe malfunction and the political and religious conservatives acted like it was the end of the world or, at the very least, it was Sodom and Gommorah with a chance of heavenly firey destruction on the partial baring of a woman's breast! Claims that CBS and the vast liberal cultural conspiracy were undermining what conservatives claimed were "traditional family values" were laughable if it wasn't backed-up with force. The U.S. federal government was then in the hands of "friendlies", that is, people who espoused similar views and who had the power to act on them. And we saw CBS was chastised and fined, sending a chilling effect throughout broadcast media that they too might be target by the right-wing hate machine and punished by their apparatchiks in the Bush administration. But now we know that that their assertion of principled action was just bluff and blather. When one of their own, when the media machine they champion (namely Rupert Murdoch's New Corp which oversees the Fox broadcast channels, the Fox cable channels, and the Fox News channels) provides an even more graphic presentation of female anatomy, where is their outrage and are their principled anger? Is their morality only for their enemies and not for their friends? Is this just a frat club out to win at costs even it means that are caught in an obvious hypocritical act? If one examines the Fox news website http://www.foxnews.com/ one sees no mention of the event on its front page but one is teased with the following: Big Girls In the Buff SLIDESHOW: Glamour magazine gathered plus-sized models for a nude photo shoot as they examine the fashion world's fascination with stick-thin models Stars Who Played Strippers SLIDESHOW: Can the finalists in first ever pole dancing contest beat these stars' striptease performances? | Professional Pole Dance-Off Even that well-known tabloid the New York Post (another Rupert Murdoch company) has nothing on its front page. Just more closing of the ranks, if you don't talk about it, it never happened, frat boy justice ("if nobody snitches, no one will be punished"). Yes, brother Michael, such conservative tribalistic HYPOCRISY is indeed juvenile and on the Kolhberg scale of moral development represents a childish sense of morality. It is good to know that we can see this for what it is. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] P.S. Insert ;-) where necessary, just don't ask me where you should stick it. :-) On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Mike Palij <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't watch reality TV shows and only pay attention to news > reports about them when something really unusual happens like, > say, former U.S. congressman Tom Delay decides to participate > in one of these farces. However, today my attention was drawn > to a news item that suggests that a dance show on the Fox network > had a "Sharon Stone" moment: see the Daily News story which is > handled in impeccable tabloid style: > http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2009/09/30/2009-09-30_so_you_think_you_can_dance_contestant_flashes_national_tv_audience.html > or > http://tinyurl.com/yer5e7s > > For you pervs, er, professors who would like to see the original > video and determine whether it is the real McCoy or just a panties > crease, our friends at the Huffington Post have thoughtfully provided > the video snippet to us (they even have a poll: is it the real McCoy or > a panties crease -- though they don't use the term "real McCoy"): > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/30/vagina-exposed-on-so-you_n_304592.html > > Teachable moments for psychology classes: > > (1) When the "liberal" CBS network had Janet Jackson'd infamous > wardrobe malfunction during the half-time show of the SuperBowl > footbal game, CBS was fined for partial exposure of a female breast. > What will the "conservative" Fox network pay in terms of money or > other form of punishment for this display of female flesh? Will it be: > a) More than CBS, given the body part exposed > b) Same as CBS > c) Less than CBS, because the conservatives at Fox obviously > had made a mistake while the liberals at CBS obviously planned > the wardrobe malfunction > d) No fine because the prudes who fined CBS will be good submissive > authoritarians and not fine their media overlords at FOX. > > (2) As noted in the one of the replies on the Huffington Post website, > if actual flesh was shown, was a "vagina" really shown? > a) Yes > b) No > As a commenter makes clear, the vagina in an internal orgram and > the outer visual portion could be the labia and clitoris (or as another > commenter points out, perhaps a thigh fat row). If people answer "Yes" > to question (2), does this point out the need for more "Human > Sexuality" courses? > > Finally, if panties/underwear are really optional, does that mean that > Tom Delay is dancing around without ..... > --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
