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the context was a bare breast on early evening family hour TV.
People freaked out that it could be allowed to 'slip by' and now there is a delay on live Monday Night Football. The News piece was in an edited story segment, that could not have just 'slipped by'. Are we supposed to expect to see breasts on the news, but not during halftime? Why do they not show breast cancer sufferers exposing their breasts in US hospitals? plenty of stories there...
I don't care if there are breasts on TV; I thought the Janet thing was an enormous waste of time and energy... but, I'm wondering why this is different. And what sorts of unconscious attitudes define that difference.
what is this key contextual dichotomy by which a rich performer's breast is bad and a poor AIDS patient's breast is ripe for the lookin', when both appear at about 7pm on the same channel?
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