I was going to let it go. K-Lo’s rant about the Super Bowl halftime show was par for the course. And, besides, who can argue with her complaint? “Why can’t we have a national entertainment moment that does not include a mother gyrating in a black teddy?” I was just relieved that she didn’t point out that Beyoncé was causing some lust in the white folk.
In any case, I was going let it go until I realized that she had come back for a second bite at the apple. This time she got philosophical.
Yes, a woman embracing her womanhood is a powerful thing. Which is exactly what we tend to suppress in so many other contexts (say, federal policy mandating that we treat women’s fertility as a disease to be medicated). We absolutely are in desperate need of a sane, healthy embrace of human sexuality. But I have my doubts the halftime show pulled it off.
Just so we’re clear, K-Lo is saying that planning your parenthood is the opposite of embracing your womanhood. You always have to be ready for the pollen in the stalk. It seems absurd, but it’s Catholic Doctrine, and we know how the Church excels at embracing human sexuality.
I think Roy Edroso has it right: “Maybe the folks behind Conservapedia can organize an alternate Super Bowl where a bunch of nuns sing “Dominique” at halftime.”
I forgot she existed. K-Lo that is.
Ouch.
Colbert had a funny bit about one of the lawyers in the DOMA case brought by republicans. Paul Clement’s argument was that only straights should be able to marry because only straights can have a truly “unplanned and unintended” pregnancy. That’s a pretty remarkable bit of logic. Sounds like Vatican thinking to me.
Of course on that reasoning every straight couple who has sex could be considered legally “married” until the woman’s next period, which would be interesting.
Wasn’t just conservatives that seemed to have had some sort of meltdown about Beyonce’s halftime performance. Democraticundergound was in a weird uproar about it also. Pretty strange.
what was their problem?
Kinda the same old crap that conservatives are saying. Beyonce didn’t have enough clothes on for ‘family viewing’…was acting like she should have been at a strip club using a pole, she can’t sing, her music sucks, not half time ‘quality’ ha…Tina Turner is better.
From a progressive site I was just kinda dumbfounded at the large portion of anti-beyonce people who said her performance was so mediocre or worse implied her clothing/dancing made her a slut.
Cause’ it sucked?
I’ve seen a lot worse halftimes. I thought it was ok and mainly for the good energy level plus her band and dancers are all women.
Nothing about PA’s governor rejecting the Medicaid expansion?
That’s a choke hold, son.