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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (3265)	2/12/2004 10:11:14 AM
From: Lost1	Respond to of 3287

By now you're probably read more than you ever wanted to about Janet Jackson's right breast. But to me, the worst part of the whole ordeal was that the outrage was narrowed, laserlike, on a single mammary, while there was plenty to get up-in-arms about this Super Bowl Sunday. If you are a parent, outraged that your child saw a mostly exposed breast on TV (we won't get into the "Was it a Nipple Shield?" debate), how can you not be outraged by CBS's frequent promos to "C.S.I.," a show that regularly features rape, dismemberment and liquefied corpses? You're not outraged by CBS's post-Super Bowl programming of "Survivor," a show that made the spectacle of Richard Hatch's naked backside a national obsession? How could you not be outraged by the none-too-subtle misogyny of two beer company commercials -- one featuring a shrewish caricature of a wife yelling at her referee husband, the other featuring a flatulent horse blowtorching some unfortunate woman? Nobody seems too up in arms about another beer ad featuring a bestiality-ready chimp, or the one with the guy in the kilt airblowing his privates over a street grate, Marilyn Monroe-style. Parents seem fine with the proliferation of erectile dysfunction ads, in which Mike Ditka coyly avoids mentioning the purpose of the product he's pitching, while tossing a football through a hanging tire. Levitra's all right with its "Weekender" pill ad, in which primed middle-aged men drag their wives out of the kitchen in slow motion, presumably toward the bedroom. (Let's hope it's just the bedroom.) No, it's all about the boob. The boob trumps them all. It's more offensive than violence, brutality, bad taste, medically induced erections and sexism. AAS staff