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Post by negativenine on Feb 8, 2004 22:43:47 GMT -5
I don't think it is unhealthy to watch what you eat and take care of your body. True that. But it IS unhealthy to go to certain extremes... like diets (you know the kind I mean... the weird celebrity fad ones) and 6 hour workouts. And yes... I do agree she's to be admired for actually doing the work herself instead of getting surgical alterations (her brother on the other hand...  ). Anyway, yeah, 6 hour workouts are probably an exagerration, I know, and I have nothing against being healthy. There are a lot of problems with obesity and all that, and people need to go and work out more, but on the other side of it, there are eating disorders and media images that we're supposed to conform to. I'm just saying that strict diets and 6 hour workouts may not be the healthiest approach to fitness. |
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Post by negativenine on Feb 9, 2004 20:19:06 GMT -5
I agree, swans... to a certain extent. You mentionned outfits, and I think those are getting quite a bit worse... I mean, I wasn't an impressionable teenager in the 90s, so I never got influenced by the outfits first hand. Still, there's a lot more skin showing and "sexy" flaunting, but that's completely off topic.
Basically, yes, I agree with you. Good to be healthy, scary to be obsessive, nice to see better (in some ways) role models.
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Post by StellaFantasia on Feb 16, 2004 12:12:14 GMT -5
I agree with what swans said many posts ago now: I'm disgusted by the fact that Janet Jackson took all the blame for the incident. If anyone should have taken blame, it should be Justin Timberlake, since he was the one who actually DID THE RIPPING. I consider myself pretty liberal, and I don't mind boobs on tv even in the middle of the day, but what disgusts me is the way Justin Timberlake boasts and degrades women in his songs, then rips someone's clothes off in front of millions of people, and when the complaints roll in he plays innocent and lets someone else take the fall.
As far as nudity on tv goes, when I first moved to Australia and saw my first headphones on free to air tv in an 8:30 pm time slot, I was freaked out. I wasn't freaked out because I'd seen a headphones...let's face it, we've all seen penii...I was just freaked out that there it was, on tv, and no one was making a fuss about it. I've seen some really explicit stuff on tv here, and I think it's great that no one freaks out about it. And you know what? Australian kids aren't growing up warped because of it. Their morals are no weaker than Americans'. So maybe we should calm down, stop shouting about how terrible it is to see a breast on tv and just let it go. Because in the long run, it's a breast, and there are 500,000,000 of them in America, and they're not hurting anyone.
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Post by Madamluna on Feb 16, 2004 12:34:50 GMT -5
(I have not taken the time to read the rest of the thread. I am just ranting here, and this is not directed to anyone on this thread personally.)
What the hell is everyone's beef with the halftime show? Admittedly, I didn't watch it, but the only important part (the malformed chest hernia of Janet Jackson) was replayed 3849234 times on the news.
First of all, it was so blatantly planned. CBS owns MTV, and they printed up fliers saying that something shocking was going to happen and everyone should look out for it. Second, it's not as if people are going to start rioting and killing things because they saw someone's boob. Get your priorities straight.
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). Anyway, yeah, 6 hour workouts are probably an exagerration, I know, and I have nothing against being healthy. There are a lot of problems with obesity and all that, and people need to go and work out more, but on the other side of it, there are eating disorders and media images that we're supposed to conform to. I'm just saying that strict diets and 6 hour workouts may not be the healthiest approach to fitness. 
