Friday, December 8, 2006

Double Standards Bug Me

So here’s what I don’t get:

Mario Lopez is dancing to a Michael Jackson song, "Bad", and as part of the choreography puts his hand in front of his crotch. This is a move that Michael perfected long ago, and any dance done in his "style" to his song would almost HAVE to have that in it.

But there’s controversy, people are offended, there’s all sorts of talk about how this may cost him the competition (which, apparently, it did) because the core audience of the show, women and older adults, would be "offended."

Yet somehow, these didn’t offend them:

Does anyone else see a bit of a double standard here? Why is it ok for the women to be falling out of their dresses, yet the men aren’t allowed to imply they have genitalia?

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