I didn’t watch the Super Bowl, but I have been seeing a lot of outrage about the obscene half time show. What happened to featuring outstanding marching bands?!
Megan Fox at PJ Media wrote, “The FCC still has rules about decency on network television between certain hours when children are watching. It is well established that children are watching during the Super Bowl. I had to send mine out of the room as soon as Jennifer Lopez took the stage in what looked like a two-sided thong and buttless chaps. The camerawork was outrageously gross, zooming in on Lopez’s barely covered crotch, so close that the viewer could see some sort of silver maxi pad sticking out from either side of her way-too-small fraud of a garment. …
“Shakira was not as offensive, although the cameramen also could not stay away from her crotch. But at least she was wearing an imitation of a skirt and she wasn’t on a stripper pole. Yep. JLo did a striptease pole dance while barely-dressed backup dancers simulated an orgy underneath her. It was disgusting.
“What is the message here for young women exactly? You are not a sexual object and can demand men be fired for looking at you or complimenting you in the #MeToo era. You can also dress up like a whore and gyrate around on stage half-naked for the pleasure of men, but if they take pleasure in it, you can accuse them of being harassers. Get it?”
Dorothy Cummings McLean wrote at Catholic World Report, “Whether or not they give birth, women are called to be mothers to the young, to be good examples and to help shepherd them to happiness. I don’t think that’s what Jennifer Lopez and Shakira were doing on Sunday afternoon.”
JD Flynn tweeted for all of us: “Hey @NFL, our kids watch football. We all watch football. Please, stop doing this.”
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We watched the Super Bowl and were disgusted and horrified by the half time show. My 13-year-old daughter was upstairs in her room but came down to get a glass of water, looked at the T.V. and said “Eeww. This is disgusting and I don’t like it.” She didn’t understand what the pole was about and we didn’t tell her. I talked to male co-worker about the half time show and, of course, he thought it was great. :eyeroll: When I explained my issues with it and the fact that my daughter saw some of it, he thought about it for a while and finally understood why people are so upset. He’s single and has no children, but he has nieces.
We haven’t watched a game in over two years but decided to watch the Super Bowl for various reasons. The game was awesome in the 4th quarter. Both teams were respectful on the field which impressed us. Can’t say that about the half time show. It was so demeaning to women; the commercials about women offended me, too.
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