The Kerfuffle On Sesame Street

(Again with the weird video thing where it doesn't show up until you click through to read more. Sorry about that, gang -- I just cannot figure out why that happens...but if you click thru, you can see it and watch.  - C)



Have you heard about the kerfuffle on Sesame Street because Katy Perry has boobies and Elmo shouldn't be exposed to them even a little?

Some days, you just have to shake your head in wonder, don't you?

On the one hand, had the sheer panel on the front of her dress been a more discreet, colored lace?  We probably wouldn't be talking about this at all.  It is a kids show, ferheavenssakes, not an old timey burlesque.  But she's in the entertainment business, where pushing the envelope just to the edge is an art form, and it's not exactly unexpected that Katy Perry, fer hell's sakes, might want to be a little flirty.  (duh)

But come on...ta tas that are almost mostly covered by a cute little romper with sheer cloth panel? Which would be viewed by children who would be looking at Elmo and not the boobies anyway?  That's too damned frightening for small children?

Hello?!?

Where do you think these children have been eating in the not-too-distant past, if momma was nursing?  See, also, mommy's ta tas, which they do not yet think of as "dirty" because they have more sense than adults do about these things until we spoil it for them.

Can we just, for a tiny little minute in this country, just get over our prudish selves and realize something:  the only reason that boobies are at all "dirty" is because parents treat them as such.


Everyone has them.  All girls do.  Men have "pecs," which are really man boobies in manly terminology disguise.  (Although some men's man boobies are more boob-a-licious than others, I suppose.)

Seriously.  Get over it.  And stop passing it on to your children.  Good heavens, sometimes I feel like I'm stuck in a 1950s version of the Twilight Zone.

Look at that little romper she's wearing in the video.  The point is that it is a fancy dress-up outfit and no child in his right mind at the age that watches Sesame Street is going to get all heated up over the fact that you can see a little jiggle of...gasp...boobies.   They probably wouldn't even notice if it weren't pointed out to them.

We are beyond crazy.  You cannot get people to talk en masse about poverty and hunger, and how it affects the nation's children for a lifetime.  Not even with a cattle prod in tow.

But you get a tiny peek at some mostly completely covered boobies on Sesame Street?  Everyone goes nutso.

Our values are warped.  And I just needed to say that this morning.