From djacques@csulb.edu Tue Feb 10 06:50:55 2004
Subject:RE: OT was Grammys...change of direction? now "sign o the times"

Good treatises of music and society... However, what was offensive to me
was not the fact that a partial breast was exposed, but the VIOLENCE in
the act of exposing it. Believe me, I am a very liberal man who grew up
in the 60's and 70's... I have a high tolerance for this kind of thing.
However, exposing children to the type of violence that is implied when
this Pop Hack reaches across a woman and tears off her clothes,
especially after singing about doing it, is just plain offensive. It
sends a message to our kids that its OK to grope women like that.

But then again, since our Groping Governator, Arnold, was elected by a
majority of women in California, I wonder what that message says to our
kids.....

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And really, all this hooplah about Janet's breast or nipple, or
whatever: please, we need to reign it back in. Since when is a
momentary glimpse of a beautiful woman's anatomy more damaging to our
children than watching 3 hours of big, steroided grown men bashing the
living shit out of each other intentionally for the sole purpose of
pushing a dead pig's skin to one end of a field or another??? Get a
grip. The fact that everyone is so up in arms about it betrays our
values. Violence is ok, but sex is not??? I'd rather my kids get a 2
minute glimpse of a naked Janet Jackson then 2 minutes of slo-mo replay.
We can shoot people on television, have cop shows about child abuse,
spousal abuse, sexual predators and miscreants, violent crime and
murder, but let's filter the sex out of it. (shaking head)

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