Our fine government is trying to increase penalties on radio personalities for obscenity, all based on the Super Bowl exposure of Janet Jackson’s nipple. Not that I like listening to Howard Stern — I find him a little moronic and I tend to listen to NPR in the morning instead. And yet rap singers on MTV can obscenely objectify women left and right, and everyone sort of takes it for granted.
This reminds me of Apocalypse Now:
“We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won’t let them write ‘fuck’ on their airplanes, because it’s obscene.” — Colonel Kurtz
Personally I don’t think Janet ever showed her nipple. I think the Bush administration just wanted a memorable Super Bowl halftime show, so they made it up based on sketchy information from the CIA. I believe that we should have more inspections. Anyone among us might be hiding nipples. Let’s expose them all.