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Super Bowl
2009 Aftermath
An Internet View of Shania
Twain from Super Bowl 2007
Other Super Bowl Stories
1. 
Super Bowl
XXXVIII Aftermath
I guess those who switched to the Lingerie Bowl at
half-time (models playing tackle football in
"lingerie?") missed the greater exposure at the
Super Bowl - Justin Timberlake pulling part of
Janet Jackson's bustier off exposing a breast
covered with a tassel, nipple ring or shield (photo
upper right. Click for an enlargement.) This
isn't really anything new for television if you've
ever watched the Oscar's, Emmy's, or Golden Globes
with women either wearing a see-through dress
(Meryl Streep) or a slit up the dress that
uncovered delicate areas down below (Ashley
Judd) at the 1998 Oscar's. 
Then, just before the half started there was the
man (1)
who no one notice as he made his way to the center
of the field unchecked by the very heavy security
corp, stripped to his socks, shoes, hat and a
G-string (the press calling him a streaker with is
a misnomer. A streaker is nude except maybe for
shoes.)
When asked, Sean McManus, CBS Sports
President said, "No one at CBS anticipated
anything so offensive and distasteful." He was
referring to the half-time performance. I thought
the statement should have been directed more toward
some of the commercials.
Like the one that showed an attractive date in a
horse-drawn carriage, holding a candle for her
boyfriend. Cut to the rear end of the horse as the
tail goes up. The horse lets go of some methane
gas, exploding in the girls face with a fire ball.
"Have another Bud?" Don't mind if I do.
Another Bud spot shows this mutt attacking a guy's
crotch (2)
so the obese owner of the dog doesn't have to go to
the cooler for a Bud. Both Budweiser and
CBS-Television must think that's funny. Don't spot
me, I'm on a roll. Another Bud spot shows an
apparent football player going into a spa
supposedly for a rubdown and instead gets a bikini
wax. But let's not stop there. Another commercial,
Bud of course, shows a chip hustling its owner's
date when he leaves the room (3),
inviting her upstairs and obviously staring at her
breasts. Good old American TV. Now I see why
CBS wouldn't allow the moveon.org
commercial "Child's Pay" to air. Too controversial.
Try, too clean. And, apparently, the kind of people
who the advertisers and CBS think watch the Super
Bowl prefer this kind of raunch because on the
USA Today Ad Meter ratings, the Mutt came out
number one, again.
2. 
3. 
4. 
5.
Budweiser wasn't the only advertiser that
preferred raunch. Procter & Gamble came on
board showing a quarterback diddling the center's
ass and when the center frowns and tries to get
away, the quarterback chases him. (4)
What the quarterback was apparently after was the
Charmin toilet paper hanging from the center's belt
instead of a towel. And, then there was the
American Legacy commercial (5)
showing shards of glass extending out of popsicles
going down an assembly line. But none of these
commercials are controversial. Not at $2.3 million
a pop, plus production costs. Who's going to find
that kind of money , woops, sorry, advertising
"distasteful".
Golden
Globes
Breasts are everywhere. Go to the newsstand and
check out the array of magazines showing a lot of
cleavage. I'm not talking about Playboy and
Penthouse. I'm talking about row after row
of shelter
magazines from Allure to
American Women, the Complete
Woman to Cosmopolitan,
Elle, First for Women, Frank,
Glamour, Good Housekeeping,
Ladies' Home Journal,
Mademoiselle, Marie Clare,
McCalls, Mirabella, New Woman,
Redbook, Self, Shape,
Vogue.. Woman's Own,
to Woman's World. cleavage is in - or out,
might be a better way to describe it. Even the
teen
publications push skin exposed at least 6"
below the belly
button
Speaking of Globes, where did they come from
since Eyes Wide Shut? (6)
6. 
From Jennifer Aniston to Mary-Louise Parker,
movie stars have been showing their stuff for a
long time and male and sometimes female singers
have been grabbing their crutches for at least 10
years. What would you expect from a culture that
thinks the human body is shameful and deplores
sexuality. Why movies like My Boss's
Daughter gets an R rating for a sight gag of
the male lead basically being forced to grab Carmen
Electra's covered breast to check for what she
thinks is breast cancer. How shameful, but letting
the little thirteen year old watch Lord of the
Rings with tons of violence and killing, what's
the big deal. Somewhere along the line things got
really twisted and this year's Super Bowl is taking
the hit.
Give
Me a Break
You've been sitting back for years accepting things
as they are. We've tried to get you to complain
about accessories that are being marketed to
preteen girls that say "Stupid
Factory - Where Boys are Made" or, items that
if they said "Girls are Stupid, Throw Rocks at
Them" you might wake up and say "Violence against
Women." But the fact is, your daughters
are buy the ones that say "Boys are Stupid - Throw
Rocks at Them" and the major comment we get is
either "It's a joke" or "You've being too
sensitive." Well, how about the
Rotten Cotton
T-shirts that say Dead Girls Never Say No or
My kid raped your honor student. Or the line
of Wife Beater
T-shirts out of Texas, one for everyone in the
family, even the baby that reads Lil Wifebeater
in Training. Do any of those messages wake you
up? Enough to do anything? We're waiting.
(Originally written in 2004. It's now ten years
later (2014) and not much has changed.)
An Internet View of Shania
Twain Performance at Super Bowl XXXVII
A view of Shania Twain
performing at half-time last year, computer
enhanced.
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