Okay, so the Janet Jackson thing? Enough already!! I'm not a big football fan so I missed the whole halftime show, and by the time I had caught up to the situation, everything was so blown out of proportion that I could not look away (special thanks to the Drudge Report for making all this possible).
Anyway, I thought it would blow over eventually--I mean, it's a boob, for pete's sake. It's not something important like, oh, I don't know, that fact that ricin was found in the senate or that the director of the CIA admitted that George W. Bush is a big fat liar. It's a boob. But today, I came across two stories that made me realize just how dire the situation had become:
1. ER is cutting a scene from tonight's episode that shows the breast of an 80 year old woman because "the atmosphere created by this week's events has made it too difficult for many of our affiliates to air this shot." I can think of lots of reasons not to show the breast of an 80 year old woman, but the atmosphere seems like the most ludicrous reason possible. Unless she has an album coming out next month that she's trying to report.
2. A high school in Orange County is not going to allow MTV to film a reality show there because the school board was so disgusted by Janet Jackson's antics. Again, there are lots of reasons not to invite MTV into your high school, but all because of a breast? Really?
It's no wonder the state of women's health care is as it is today: if we as a nation are going to fall to pieces on account of a boob, what do you think would happen if we start talking about something even scarier, like ovaries?
I said it: ovary, ovary, ovary. Now, what are you gonna do to me?
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