Why is the "Mon. night football & naked girl" driving the moralists crazy?

[glarius]

The incredible fuss being made about the girl "dropping her towel and jumping into the football player's arms" is just so hypocritical....The guy on CNN right now is having a moral fit about it. He says no father wants to have to explain to his child why the woman did this.....I ask another question.....Where's the outrage at the stuff that happens on daytime shows like the Maury Povich show and others....I'm referring to the many shows he has done where young women come on his show, dragging small children on stage to confront some man who claims not to be their father.....Povich, the ever-helpful one, comes forth with DNA results to either prove or disprove the parentage....What does this do to these children?.....I think this is child abuse!....I have yet to hear any of these outraged moralists say anything about this!

[LisaM]

1. Because they are Puritanical, regressive, and want to run our lives

I don't get it either. The unhealthy attitude towards the human body in our culture gets to me.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Because they have fallen in love...

With the sound of their own shrill voices. Plus, it gets them face time on TV.

Absolutely nothing more complicated than that.

[heidiho]

3. How about seeing a Marine shoot a defenseless man

in an illegal war based on a big fat lie!

That's morally reprehensible in my opinion. The right-wingers are so screwed up. I'm beginning to hate them all, every last one of them is sick, sick, sick.

[supernova]

4. Welcome to the New Age of Victoria

Make that tablecloth longer so it covers the legs of your dining room table. It's too sexy, otherwise.

[kysrsoze]

25. I find Sipowitz' naked ass much more offensive and nobody cared about that

Seriously, WTF? That was risque? You see more cleavage in a Coors commercial.

[Technowitch]

5. Sex makes them feel all ooogy

[DrWeird]

6. They want the TV to babysit for them.

Then they get upset when the TV doesn't babysit right.

[megatherium]

28. Kids do watch Monday Night Football.

Even I watch Monday Night Football, at least until bedtime. (It's never too late to have a happy childhood, you know.)

I didn't see the intro, so I can't comment on whether it really was out of line. (I also missed Janet Jackson's wardrobe failure.) I hope the producers do bear in mind that kids are watching. On the other hand, they've shown the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders since forever. Their costumes don't leave very much to the imagination.

[eleny]

7. Interracial sex drives wingnuts to distraction

[Leilani]

8. Because they don't want to deal with real issues...

like the dollar is sinking
inflation is rising
salaries are going down
we have a never-ending insurgency in Iraq
we don't have any people in the military
they just raised the debt ceiling again
Russians are developing new nukes
Korea & Iran have nukes

Should I go on?

[Minstrel Boy]

9. ebony and ivory

To some American minds, they should not live together in naked harmony.

[pk_du]

10. Real reason

for most of them is because he's black and she's white...plain and simple..but they'll never admit it.

[Politicub]

18. I don't know if I agree with that

But it's a good counter to the right's goofy argument, so I'm going to promote it anway.

The righties were offended because he's black and she's white.

:evilgrin:

[MNBiker]

11. I think it's kind of cute...But I can see the problem with it....

To me it was funny. But to some it crosses the line, they tuned in to see a football game and they end up the the usual mindless TV crap. It's like a candidate at a baseball game, sit down we came for the game boooooo....

[RC]

12. I understand the white blonde jumped

into the black football players arms.
that was the real problem.

[kysrsoze]

26. Damn! If it weren't some colored boah she wuz after! That's the problem.

Screw them all. Let 'em watch 700 Club. If we're all supposedly going to hell, we should be able to watch what we want along the way.

[Politicub]

13. It's a brillant marketing stunt by Desperate Housewives

The trailers are much steamier than the actual show. I know becasue I'm a fan :).I'm surprised at how tame DH is, actually. Before the season started, the prime time previews fot DH suggested that the show was entirely about people have sex. It's not at all.

All of this clucking by the fundies is quite amusing. They live to be offended.

[prodigal_green]

14. Because Scott Peterson was already convicted

something else to show in the distraction circus. At least the Romans included bread in the formula.

[Iris]

15. Or what about some of the stuff on the radio?

We have a radio station in Atlanta that beats that every day of the year 24-hours a day. But, it's white misogynist white guys, so I guess it's ok because we all know how rough things are for them.

[Cleita]

16. If they can make a big ado about nothing, then the real issues

are glossed over and then buried.

[Winamericaback]

17. No Idea

I was waiting to see her privates... it had to be that bad for them to get so huffy about it..

All I saw was ankle, part of a back and shoulders..

Okay WTF is the big deal?!

[demodonkey]

19. Just saw it here and thought that the most "offensive" thing was...

that she had a very prominent Christian cross necklace on (um, that cross would be about ALL she had on after she dropped the towel)...

Her wearing a cross struck me as offensive because it seems typical of the so-called "moral values" hypocrites who vote GOP but then ate that Monday Night Football segment up.

[Johonny]

20. well

A)You can see a heck of a lot more of the female body from 10 seconds of seeing a Cowboy Cheerleader outfit than that intro. The only reason they don’t mind is well... they’re use to seeing it. Mindless sexual objects dancing to mindless music with no objective is ok. Sexual object with sense of sexual power puts fear into them.

B) They dislike the racial slant of the intro. Black man catches "naked" white women is horrible. As Tony Dungy (not white and still read this into it!) says "That athletes are sexual predators and that that stuff is more important than what's going on on the field. That a guy was more concerned with that than the game, that's a terrible message to send," Dungy said. "I'm particularly sensitive to that. It could have been any player and I would have been outraged, but being an African-American, it particularly hurt me."

C) It's easier than being outraged about a never ending war in the middle east that sees America ever drag into moral grey grounds between war and murder/ justice and oppression/ freedom and enforced servitude.

[Djinn]

21. Just another case

wont somebody pleeeeaaasssee think of the children!

[morgan2]

22. its the whole black athelete and white women thing

It really gets to a lot of people. All of their insecurities about the opposite sex shine through.

[kcwayne]

23. Because there wasn't a lead in with pictures of dead Iraqi insurgents

That would be ok and make things fair and balanced.

Jeez, you'd think ABC would have known enough to put camoflauge on the nekkid lady, or at least put a HumVee in the clip.

[Jack_DeLeon]

24. Racism...

cant have the black men getting the white womens.

[against all enemies]

27. Not enough violence.

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

29. Black Man / White Woman = Awakening of Deep-seated Racism

The moralist outrage over this crappy MNF skit is nothing more than veiled racism.

Xtian nutballs hate "race trading" just as much as gays.

JB

[CHestonsucks]

30. It's fashionable now to beat up on television

that shows too much sexuality. The pious frauds and wingnuts in society secretly despise female sexuality. Why? Because THEY CAN'T CONTROL IT. Rather, it controls them. This has been the basis of the violence against women by the needledicks since who knows when. The loudest critics of this piece were undoubtedly those who desired her the most and would've killed Mandingo to get her.

Want to have some fun? Ask a fucking wingnut why he/she abhors sexuality on television but says nothing about the amount of violence written into just about every show on TV. Ask why violence is acceptable but sexuality is not.

Sit back and enjoy the consternation.