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MrScorpio

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Mon Feb 4, 2013, 08:15 PM Feb 2013

Beyoncé’s Super Bowl Performance Inspires Conservative Freakout [View all]

Beyoncé Knowles rocked the Super Bowl halftime show last night, and, pearls clenched firmly in fist, Kathryn Jean Lopez is on it, and the national cultural decline Ms. Knowles apparently represents:

I don’t want to linger on this, but last night’s Super Bowl half-time show was ridiculous — and gratuitously so. Watching Twitter, it was really no surprise that men made comments about stripper poles and putting dollar bills through their TV sets, was it? Why can’t we have a national entertainment moment that does not include a mother gyrating in a black teddy? The priceless moment was Destiny’s Child reuniting to ask that someone “put a ring on it.” As I mentioned on Twitter last night, perhaps that case might be best made in another outfit, perhaps without the crotch grabbing. It seems quite disappointing that Michelle Obama would feel the need to tweet about how “proud” she is of Beyoncé. The woman is talented, has a beautiful voice, and could be a role model. And she is on some levels — on others she is an example of cultural surrender, rather than leadership.


I’d venture that there’s more dignity in Beyoncé’s marvelously controlled, rigorously choreographed performance than in Bruce Springsteen’s sloppy slide and camera crotch-bump of a few years back. And as much as her very much post-baby body was on display, Beyoncé’s performance was less allusively sexual than Prince’s silhouetted guitar. In fact, almost everything about Beyoncé’s off-stage life pretty much seems to meet Lopez’s criteria, from her long courtship with Jay-Z, to the child the two of them had once they were firmly ensconced in wedlock. If I were Lopez, I might actually think about striking the Knowles-Carters a medal for defying the Hollywood trend of shotgun or infinitely-delayed post-baby weddings.

http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/02/04/1537431/beyonces-super-bowl-performance-inspires-conservative-freakout/
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And some lefty puritans on DU too bluestateguy Feb 2013 #1
....On DU! bigwillq Feb 2013 #2
yeppers independentpiney Feb 2013 #4
It certainly inspired a freakout here! zappaman Feb 2013 #3
To replies 1 thru 4 of this thread, tosh Feb 2013 #5
I don't get the freak out on either side. Kalidurga Feb 2013 #6
+1 Blue_Tires Feb 2013 #14
64 year old woman HockeyMom Feb 2013 #7
74-year-old woman here. RebelOne Feb 2013 #11
Would you have been shocked if men had been dancing? leftstreet Feb 2013 #13
Not at all HockeyMom Feb 2013 #15
Freak them out some more. Refer to her ProSense Feb 2013 #8
It sounds like her performance was actually conservative leftstreet Feb 2013 #9
If that had been Carry Underwood in the same outfit LeftInTX Feb 2013 #10
True dat n/t Still Sensible Feb 2013 #12
a big unspoken part of it I think independentpiney Feb 2013 #16
they don't like her either. She is a Democrat, a vegan and married to a Canadian! lol n/t OKNancy Feb 2013 #17
Anne Coulter or Rudy Giuliani maybe whistler162 Feb 2013 #18
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