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Sunday, February 06, 2005 It's not the nipple, stupid...Mickey Kaus and Glenn Reyonolds are commenting on Nipplegate as we head into the next Super Bowl. I'm pretty much in agreement with Kaus, but thought I'd throw in my two cents worth. Red-State and Blue-State America are welcome to their own takes on this thing, but I was most interested in Timberlake's take. Not, mind you, anything he had to say afterward. His immediate take. We are told by some that this is a case of prudery, that simplistic bluenoses went overboard about a breast. Mickey says the problem is that men shouldn't go around ripping off women's clothes. What does Justin think? Look at the picture. Do you see a Dionysian celebrating the joys of sexual expression? I see a shoplifter mumbling, "Umm, I was going to pay for that..." to the store security guard. Forget about nipples. The most revealing sights from the Superbowl festivities were Jackson's rush to cover herself and the horror in Timberlake's eyes as he realized he had just made an ass of himself before an audience of millions. Sexual Revolution you say? Then why did the hedonistic Hollywood types get all shy when they remembered where they were? Sophisticates can mutter all they want about how we should be beyond this. If it were just about nipples, they may have something. But looking at Jackson and Timberlake tells us that even if the thing was stage-managed, in the world of appearances, he done wrong and she was violated. And that's not a healthy thing. Btw: Having actually lived in the belly of the beast of anti-prudery, France, I have my doubts about European sophistication. Yes, they show a lot more breasts. And yes, people are a lot more blasé about it. But that doesn't change the fact that every time a celeb is caught at a topless beach or does her first nude scene, the tabloids go ga-ga. And the blasé French buy them, just as surely as Americans dialed up the Jackson images on the internet. So long as there are men and there are women, sexual sophistication among humans will have its limits. 
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