Your reaction to the half time show - kids or no kids....

[Red State Rebel]

Poll question: Your reaction to the half time show - kids or no kids....

After reading the reactions to the Super Bowl halfwit, I mean half time show, I'm curious as to how many DUers have children. If you do, please comment on whether you would have approved of them seeing what happened?

[wryter2000]

1. We were watching CNN eom

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[Smirnoff]

2. Kids have to be exposed someday! heh

[Breezy du Nord]

3. I don't care if a woman wants to expose herself

and I wouldn't really care if my kids saw it either, but I could respect someone who doesn't wish to have their children exposed to nudity.

[Superfly]

4. No kids, but grew up in Southern Germany...

public nudity was and is no big deal.

[elfwitch]

5. The United States is such a Puritanical nightmare!

I didn't see it. I have to say big fricken deal! It was a titty. If a bared breast is the worst thing a child ever saw in it's life, this would be a perfect world. Breasts are beautiful and natural. I say, MORE TITS ON TV!

The United States is such a Puritanical nightmare. Breasts are bad but bombs are good?
:wtf:

[Superfly]

7. Not *that* breast...

"Breasts are beautiful and natural"

There wasn't one thing natural about that boobie.

[elfwitch]

11. I'll give you that one!

How about we say, women have boobies (even plastic ones) and that is the way it is supposed to be.

[ima_sinnic]

14. I have to agree

--what kind of society is it when we even have to discuss whether children should be allowed to see breasts?? is there something "wrong," something "emotionally harmful" about breasts?

and same question re penises, btw.

hey, women have breasts and males of all sizes and ages have penises. no amount of pretending otherwise is going to change those facts.

[elfwitch]

17. I'm starting a campaign...

I've decided to start a campaign to bring the word Vagina in to more common use.

Did you know that on every feminine product I've ever looked at, in no text does it ever say it is for use on the vagina? FDA, pads, tampons, douche, you name it... Not a vagina in site.

I'm going to make bumper-stickers:
Got Vagina?
Have you hugged your Vagina today?
My Vagina is on the Honor Roll
How is my Vagina? Dial 1-800-MMM-PUSS
We vote Pro-Vagina
and many more...

[LittleApple81]

6. It will allow the media to NOT MENTION WMD!!! n/t

[Loonman]

8. Irritated---I can do without the crotch-grabbing

Usually I don't really care about stuff like this, but this kind of crap denigrates the game and draws focus off of it.

[tigereye]

10. missed it

don't really care about the Super Bowl. All the shooting, killing, violence, bombings, etc, that's ok, but a breast? God forbid. How offensive! (sarc)

[cally]

9. I was watching with a 14 year old boy

We all just laughed and went back to talking about not showing the moveon ad. How anyone cares when female stars do everyting but wear a pasty in their gowns. Seems much ado about nothing.

I have teen girls who were not watching. When we talked about it later, we all just laughed at the absurdity of the outrage.

[fortyfeetunder]

31. Al-Qaida is probably laughing their arses off

They probably figure the time is ripe to give us a post SB surprise because the whole frigging nation is hung up on a the exposure of a partially bared breast. We're way too distracted to worry about a little terrorism, right?

[Loonman]

12. I got plenty of sources to view boobies

One of them is not a football game.

[lovedems]

13. We were watching CNN but I wouldn't care if my kids saw it.

My kids could see alot worse than a boob. I agree with the earlier post, the crotch grabbing bugs me more than the boob.

It is a part of the human body, geez, we need to get over this embarrassment about it.

[Monte Carlo]

15. People, it's just a nipple.

In the promos Janet Jackson did leading up to the halftime show, she was wearing a top that was revealing, and you could clearly see her entire cleavage. Over the years, haven't we really seen about 90-95% of her breasts? Now we see the one square-inch of her nipple, and now we get excited? I feel this country has a bit of maturing to do. We've all got nipples ladies and gentlemen, it's about time we stopped treating them as corrupting.

[Kamika]

21. not just a nipple

This wasn't just nudity, if it was I wouldnt have flipped, this was sex, it was like they would have shown hardcore porn

[Trajan]

16. I am torn ...

I have ALWAYS had a liberal bent regarding public nudity ...

I had no problem tossing my clothes and diving in at the Hot Springs in "Deep Creek" in So Cal ...

I enjoy sexuality in many ways ... and have no problem with others enjoying their own sexuality (NO kids, NO assault etc)

Yet: ... as the father of three young teens: 2 girls and one boy, .. I do NOT think the Super bowl is either a 'proper' venue for public sexuality, nor a valid source of sexual information to educate teens regarding healthy sexual mores ....

Hey ! ... I love a GOOD bawdy show as the rest would ..

Strip Clubs ? .. have at it ! ...

Prostitution ?.. SHOULD be legal ...

Naughty Clothes ? ... YUM !...

But: ... overt sexuality of children ? .. No ..

Not at all ...

My daughters are modest, and would feel very uncomfortable with such overtly sexual actions ...

Seeing a breast ? .... chuckles ... thats not a problem .... They have seen more than that, and merely 'seeing' a naked body isnt sexually perverse in ANY way ...

But I gotta be honest: ... the overt sexual message offered by last nights show was a tad too over the top ... Even as a liberal and sexually comfortable individual: .. I am glad my kids werent watching ...

Maybe Im just an old fuddy dud ...

I believe strong sexuality has its place ..

I believe strong sexuality is a right ...

But I DONT believe that public spectacles, such as the Super Bowl, should be a source of that sexuality ...

Cheerleaders ? .. sure ...

Tits and ass and more ? .... crossed the line ...

I think CBS owes offended families an apology ...

[Salviati]

18. I voted no

Not because I wouln't want any of my potential children to be exposed to nudity, but I just don't want them watching that kind of drek...

[slappypan]

19. stop giving them the attention they crave

Maybe if we could stop having a Hysterical National Crisis every time an exhibitionist pulls a stunt like this, these people would stop showing us their boobs, pubic areas, buttcracks, etc. Just a thought.

[geniph]

27. Applause, slappypan

my feelings exactly. I'll know we've matured as a society (ha, fat chance) when we react the same way to a bared mammary as a bared kneecap.

I take issue with the way it was done (simulated assault - ick), not the baring of anything. However, I believe the best way to discourage this kind of publicity stunt is not to react to it.

[beyurslf]

20. Don't have kids

But if I was concerned about the showing of the breast, I think I would have found the whole show explicit enough that I would have turned the channel long before that happened. The breat was on for 2 seconds. They danced dirty and sang sexually explicit songs throughout. Which was worse?

[walkon]

22. Does anyone know the lyrics

to "Cowboy" by kid Rock? If you do, then which do you find more obscene - the song or the breast?

[Lars39]

23. Cowboy = pimp?

Wunnderful. Just wonderful. What a glorious example of enlightened behavior towards women. :puke:

Is this also where the phrase, "Cowboy up" came from?

Here's the lyrics to "Rock Your Body":

http://www.lyrics007.com/Justin%20Timberlake%20Lyrics/Rock%20Your%20Body%20Lyrics.html

[TopesJunkie]

24. The kids are all right --

We teach our children rules regarding touching and the body in a matter of fact manner, along with the other rules of life, in increasing complexity as they develop. This fosters safety and understanding, and makes the unexpected much easier to discuss.

This was no big deal. It is now, thanks to people getting all upset about it. That's what cracks me up. Parents and moralists have such a tendency to feed their own fears and make the situation bad, when they had a wonderful teaching opportunity that they let go down the tube.

[HuckleB]

29. Awesome Post!

This says so much that has been left out of this bizarre conversation.

[fortyfeetunder]

30. More offended at the horse fart commercial

Geez, that was more crude than Janet's boob. Besides, my kid was not in the least bit interested in SB, much less football, so he never saw any part of the game.

[HuckleB]

32. I bet he would love the horse fart commercial!

;)

[DinahMoeHum]

25. I didn't watch the halftime show, but now the more I think of it. . .

the more I think "serves the a-holes at CBS right for censoring MoveOn's ad".

I'm just sitting back and watching the sparks fly !!!


:evilgrin::evilgrin::evilgrin:

[Drifter]

26. My question is ...

Why did a single person on this board see the half-time show ?

I was watching the MoveOn.org commercial (I think) which aired on CNN at the exact moment halftime started.

Mike Malloy said as he ended his show sometime this past week, to "Be sure to switch to CNN during halftime". I was not sure why (at the time), but I'm glad that I did.

I then became enraged by the show on CNN about young gymnasts and how these children are abused by both their parent and coaches in hopes of being in and winning the Olympics. It was disgraceful. Both the parents and coaches should be charge with child abuse. These children should be removed from these people immediately.

I am now of the opinion that the Olympics should be banned, or at least impose a minimum age of 18 for participants.

Cheers
Drifter

[GoddessOfGuinness]

28. We switched to CNN

and really weren't interested in the halftime show anyway.

I was glad my 5 year old didn't see it; though he probably wouldn't have watched even if we'd had it on. My 16 year old would have; but I really don't care at this point what he sees.

My personal feeling is that the routine and the raunchy commercials, were exceptionally tasteless and irresponsible on the part of the performers as well as the producers. It's those who abuse freedom of speech and expression who can be thanked for laws which restrain those liberties.

[sasquatch]

33. I was to busy playing Eucher

I hat the SB halftime show.