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February 2, 2004
It's the nipple, stupid.
Janet Jackson's breast - which I am ashamed to say I missed. Yes, I did watch the super bowl but skipped the intermission because I am an intellectual snob. Watching a bunch of huge steroid enhanced men slam into each other over and over again does have a certain charm, though.
So the media and everyone, it seems, are all in a tizzy about seeing a nipple. Women have nipples? The local news just referred to it as an X-rated show. I have heard "pornographic" also. It isn't about her breast and I wish someone would point that out. You can see breasts exposed all the time on TV; sometimes completely, except for the nipple. TLC (my apologies to non-tv types - "The Learning Channel") has a wonderful show about emergency rooms and what goes on. It is very graphic and very interesting if you aren't bothered by lots of blood. Often the accident victim has his/her clothes cut off by the doctors and TLC fuzzes out 1. Nipples on women (the rest of the breast is exposed) and 2. Dicks, penises, schlongs, units, baby-makers, johnsons, peckers, etc. (Hey!! Lets see how many terms we can come up with). Interestingly though, men's nipples are OK to show. They tend to look like women's nipples, in case you haven't noticed. It's dangerous to show women's nipples. X-rated and pornographic.
How silly. Nobody has said anything about the streaker. What's with that? You know - if god had meant us to go around naked, we would have been born that way. Sometimes I think that it is all a joke or there is vast conspiracy and the entire US is pulling my leg. Bush. Bush. How many definitions can you come up with? See! you all have dirty filthy minds and he is our president.
I was in the National Gallery in London and a boy of about 6 or 7 was running from painting to painting and in a loud voice exclaiming "Ooh, mummy, look at the boobies on this one"! and the "mummy" said "Yes dear, they're very nice but lets speak quietly"
Posted by dark-eye at February 2, 2004 11:52 PM