Conservatives Are Boobs When it Comes to Pop Culture
Now that we are descending into nanny-state soft tyranny under the sure and certain leadership of our beloved Not-A-Dictator, we are going to need a Minister of All Cultures and my nominee is John Nolte of Breitbart’s Big Hollywood. First of all, I know Nolte so even under the new regime, I should be able to score copies of movies with all the offensive scenes still intact. And second of all, I’m beginning to think that he is the last sane man discussing pop culture in America except for me. And I’m not too sure about me.
Last week, the Noltenator ran a terrific piece defending funny man Seth MacFarlane from both left-wing and right-wing attacks on his off-beat, politically incorrect and also very amusing Academy Awards performance. Especially under fire was a song called “We Saw Your Boobs,” which named which actresses had exposed themselves in which movies. Critics on left and right called the song sexist, offensive, puerile, etc, and Nolte explained to them: shut the hell up.
What strikes me as wrong-headed… is all this taking of offense and hurling of “ists.” I fear we’re becoming a nation of well-intentioned (sometimes) “Footloose” dads who see danger in harmless fun; where we cry “ist” to put a stop to things that make us uncomfortable; where — so “we don’t offend” and “for the good of others” – we build restrictions. And what happens in the process? We lose our own capacity for joy and that very healthy exercise known as laughing at ourselves.
Read the whole thing here. It’s worth it.
But while John takes both the left and the right to task, I think the right is more to blame here. When leftists attacked MacFarlane, they were being pinched, small-minded, puritanical, humorless, bullying, and censorious — which is to say, they were being themselves! Blaming them for that is like blaming a rattler for having venom.
But if right wingers want to speak through and about pop culture, they need to learn to be smarter and better than the opposition. The fact is, properly understood the “Boobs” song was a triumph for right-wing values!
So, I guess it doesn't contradict what our saying.
So, I guess it doesn't contradict what our saying.
No thanks, I'll just tell my daughters the truth: if those women were so proud of the "sensitive" and "tasteful" way the producers etc. handled nude scenes, they wouldn't need to feel ashamed when their names came up in the song. That being the case, "sensitive," artistic" and "tasteful" are just things producers say to get women to take off their shirts so the producers can make money; in other words, sexual exploitation.
No thanks, I'll just tell my daughters the truth: if those women were so proud of the "sensitive" and "tasteful" way the producers etc. handled nude scenes, they wouldn't need to feel ashamed when their names came up in the song. That being the case, "sensitive," artistic" and "tasteful" are just things producers say to get women to take off their shirts so the producers can make money; in other words, sexual exploitation.
Oh, I don't think so. But the vast conga-line of pop-cult kool kids, have no clue re the existential perils facing us. The Popular Culture is what it is. It cannot be designed or "set on course" -- not even by Barack Obama himself.
The LAST thing that conservatives should dedicate their energies toward is trying to come up with some sort of plan to steer the Popular Culture towards saner shores. The Popular Culture has no mind. It cannot create. It simply reflects. We have very serious problems facing us. The Popular Culture does not have a serious bone in its ephemeral body. It, rather, is all about appearances and whims and pleasures and vanities. The Popular Culture belongs to those who don't matter. It belongs to the... (show more)
Oh, I don't think so. But the vast conga-line of pop-cult kool kids, have no clue re the existential perils facing us. The Popular Culture is what it is. It cannot be designed or "set on course" -- not even by Barack Obama himself.
The LAST thing that conservatives should dedicate their energies toward is trying to come up with some sort of plan to steer the Popular Culture towards saner shores. The Popular Culture has no mind. It cannot create. It simply reflects. We have very serious problems facing us. The Popular Culture does not have a serious bone in its ephemeral body. It, rather, is all about appearances and whims and pleasures and vanities. The Popular Culture belongs to those who don't matter. It belongs to the faceless masses. Screw it. (show less)
Media and the education system should be targeted for takeover.
Media and the education system should be targeted for takeover.
boobs and nothing about that song offended me. I laughed -- especially at the Hollywood actresses who sat stone-faced and <i>offended</i>
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The damned Hollywood elites have for too long set themselves up as some kind of moral arbiters -- and God alone knows why. They bed hop, they marriage hop, they have kids by different fathers, they have the biggest carbon footprints on earth -- and then some! -- and they get upset by a song about boobs.
GIVE. ME. A. BREAK.
<i>They're</i>
the boobs. Jane Fonda should just ST_U. The tummy/chin tuck queen doesn't have a leg -- or a boob -- to stand on. Too bad she can't take a joke. These Hollywood killjoys have no sense of humour.
boobs and nothing about that song offended me. I laughed -- especially at the Hollywood actresses who sat stone-faced and <i>offended</i>
!
The damned Hollywood elites have for too long set themselves up as some kind of moral arbiters -- and God alone knows why. They bed hop, they marriage hop, they have kids by different fathers, they have the biggest carbon footprints on earth -- and then some! -- and they get upset by a song about boobs.
GIVE. ME. A. BREAK.
<i>They're</i>
the boobs. Jane Fonda should just ST_U. The tummy/chin tuck queen doesn't have a leg -- or a boob -- to stand on. Too bad she can't take a joke. These Hollywood killjoys have no sense of humour.