Here's why. The infamous scene plays out. Timberlake reaches over & rips Jackson's clothing, revealing her breast to the world in an apparent unexpected & unsolicited manner. She pretends to be surprised, then covers herself, protectively. Imagine. Imagine the men wooping & applauding. Great big shit eating smiles on their faces. Now imagine the boys present. Well, Dad thought it was cool. Everybody else seems to think it's cool. I guess it was pretty cool, then.
Later, the kids going to have masturbation fantasies about ripping clothes off pretty girls. If the kids gotta brain & parents who have taught him right from wrong, he'll know you shouldn't really do that. But what about the ones who haven't been equipped to deal with such stimuli. There are alot of households in which sexuality is still taboo, or worse, yet, households with young boys who have shown disturbing tendancies & inappropriate behavior towards girls. I'm sure the mothers of these boys, wouldn't want their sons to be viewing such material under those circumstances.
I'm not against nudity, but I am definitely for warnings when appropriate. I don't watch sports, & thankfully my son seldom does, either. I would have never guessed that one could expect such viewing on a sporting event watched my the majority of the country. My nephew, who's a preacher in Georgia watched it & was offended. My brother-in-law whose similarly inclined, watched it with his little boys. Needless to say, he & my sister weren't happy about it at all.
Maybe I was under a false impression, but I thought the big networks had an agreement to hold the line at a particular place, at least until after bed time. HBO & SciFi have their lines in a different place. Families who are cool with their kids exposure to such stimuli, don't have anythoing to complain about. But families with different values, do have a right to be pissy about this. We may not agree about where the line should or shouldn't be, let us at least agree to respect whereever the line is drawn for others.
I'll get off my soapbox now. Sorry.
