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Faerygdds
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08-29-2000

Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 11:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    

quote:

a commercial hinting at bestiality




Wait... did I miss something... WHICH commercial???



Legalboxer
Member

11-17-2003

Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 11:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
the monkey one - "how do you feel about back hair"

Midlifer
Member

04-16-2003

Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 12:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Azlen, you're making a good point. I think that since we're so BOMBARDED with all of those types of images that you listed, we're becoming somewhat numb. The breast baring was a more sensationalistic, thus more noticeable, event. (I didn't even watch the Superbowl, so I didn't see what was listed, otherwise I would have commented). None of those events should be accepted as part of the "norm", but when you are bombarded through the media, what's noticeable anymore? I, as a woman, have a supreme problem with the JJ incident because, in a way, it "romanticized" the mauling of a female (though she was a willing victim). What message does that send to the young girls?

When will it stop? Who will make it stop?

Midlifer
Member

04-16-2003

Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 12:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Let me add to my previous message, that there are many "battles" to be fought along the morality line. This JJ incident is the one I have picked to fight.

Eliz87
Member

07-30-2001

Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 12:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Am I the only one who doesn't understand why this is causing such controversy? It was a BREAST for God's sake! If we don't already have them, then we've seen them. I just don't understand all the excitement. Why is there such a hang-up about nudity in this country? Especially when it wasn't nudity per say...her nipple was covered. Geez Louise.

Anyway...on topic...my favorite commercials were the Bud commercials. The first one with the "show me what your dog can do" bit, and the other one with the donkey wanting to be a Clydesdale. So sweet!!

Maris
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03-28-2002

Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 1:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It isnt about nudity as far as I am concerned. It is about the tacit approval of a man ripping a woman's shirt off against her will. That is what the dramatization was about. I find it amusing that there is so much outrage over the nudity but not about the message that promotes the idea of women as objects to be assaulted.

Midlifer
Member

04-16-2003

Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 1:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Absolutely, Maris. See my post (10:52 a.m.)

Hermione69
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07-24-2002

Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 1:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think it is kind of a stretch to say people have hangups about nudity just because this incident bothered them. The forum in which it occurred is probably what leaves most of us feeling it was terribly inappropriate. This was the Super Bowl, not Sex and the City or the MTV Music Awards. If it had happened in a different forum such as the latter example, many, if not most of us, would not be raising our eyebrows. There is a time and place for everything and for this to occur during a halftime show that thousands and thousands of children see was an error in good taste and judgement, IMHO. As for the other things in Azlen's list, well, this just happened to be the battle people picked for whatever reason, very likely because of the media's reporting of it, and that is therefore the battle people are commenting on. It doesn't mean we turn a blind eye to everything else going on.

I've actually thought very little about it when I am not in this thread, but I have found this to be an interesting discussion. In any event, it will die out soon and something else will occupy our consciousness.

Maris
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03-28-2002

Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 1:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Exactly right Midlifer but there arent many out there expressing the outrage.

Eliz87
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07-30-2001

Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 1:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I absolutely disagree. It's not as if Janet was parading around in a sundress with a floppy hat on saying "Woe is me." The girl was decked out in leather and a bodice, and shooting sexy backward glances toward her "perpetrator." Not exactly a victim scenario.

EDITED TO ADD: Wow! I think this is the first time I haven't agreed with Maris and Mid. Whoa!

Hippyt
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09-10-2001

Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 1:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well,I have to say I agree with you Eliz. She was dressed in a dominitrix outfit,singing a song about getting naked. Not exactly the innocent victim image.

Lkunkel
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10-29-2003

Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 1:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What I found interesting in the commercials was the NFLs decision that Las Vegas couldn't run a tourism commercial as it would be offensive to viewers.

The Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority had to do an end run and buy local time in 5 markets. Having seen the commercials (no gambling, no nudity, no alcohol), I'm not sure how it would have been anymore offensive than the monkey commercial or even the half-time show.

My favorite was Homer and the MasterCard.

Faerygdds
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08-29-2000

Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 2:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I almost hate to say this, but mine was the bud commercial with the lady holding the candle in the horse drawn carriage!



Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 5:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I was so busy being happy that I could watch the American commercials, that I skipped all the Canadian ones and I hear we had one of the MOST controversial ones!

I saw it on our news tonight. A Labatt's Blue Light commercial (beer naturally) wherein one girl is applying lip gloss. A second girl says she really likes the gloss. The first asks if she wants to try it..when she says yes..first girl does a huge liplock with second girl!

ETA: I have no idea what that has to do with beer but I bet it sells a lot!

Bob2112
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06-12-2002

Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 5:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
<...runs out to buy 6-pack of Labatt's Blue Light...>

Suitsmefine
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07-29-2002

Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 5:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL, Bob!!!(remember to pick up two girls, with lip gloss)

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, February 04, 2004 - 12:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL Bob.

I heard on Canada AM that exactly 3 people from Canada complained about "nipplegate" to our version of your FCC while only 10 complained about the contents of the half time show.

I guess we just don't have the same sensitivities???

Crossfire
Member

08-07-2001

Wednesday, February 04, 2004 - 12:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jan, how did you manage to get the American commercials? I'd like to get in on that next time.

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, February 04, 2004 - 4:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi Cross

It's my cable company. They offer west coast feeds of the major american (and Canadian) networks as one of their premium packages.

While Global TV's coverage of CBS's game showed canadian commercials on both Global and CBS , it did NOT do so on the premium cable CBS...so that's what I watched

Wink
Member

10-06-2000

Wednesday, February 04, 2004 - 4:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Crossfire for the game we just disconnected the cable and plugged rabbit ears into the spot we disconnected the cable from.

Crossfire
Member

08-07-2001

Wednesday, February 04, 2004 - 11:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jan: Ahhh, ok, I snooped around on what I thought was about six or seven different channels looking, but they all looked the same. I never thought to look at the timeshifter channels (the ones up in the 200's+ on Rogers). Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.

Wink: Ahhhh disconnect the cable? NEVER! Hehehe, just kidding. I'll keep that in mind as well. I've not used a rabbit ear in decades I never knew tv would even work without cable. :-)

Thanks to you both, if there is one time during the year I actually want to see the commercials, that is it, then to have the plain jane Canadian stuff is boring.

Wink
Member

10-06-2000

Thursday, February 05, 2004 - 6:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Crossfire we keep those old rabbit ears around just for Superbowl commercials.