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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I don't even think my Grandma watched this. I had no idea this show even occurred until I read this post.
Also, if the Emmys were a real awards show, then why did The Wire win none in 5 years?
I guess if you choose to watch this crap, you deserve what you get.
Please tell me this is not the official Broadsheet position.
To be fair, she didn't get her clothes ripped off. She got the outer layer of her clothes removed, so that the next layer could be revealed. She wore one outfit under another.
It was the first of many outfit changes for her.
I didn't predict this one, but her odd tux didn't suit her. She's a supermodel -- or was -- and is capable of looking and dressing far better than that. So, when it happened, I wasn't surprised.
And, again to be fair, the boys didn't claim to be removing her clothes. Rather, it was a "loose thread."
What would have made it work better? Well, she could have worn a more mannish tux, afterall the setup was that she was trying to fit in with the boys. And under it, she could have worn a far more attractive suit -- or even somehow gotten a dress or gown under there.
Of course, it still would have beena suuuperlame bit. But at least she would have been dressed appropriately. As it was, she looked awkward and stupid.
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So, I honestly ask, what about it was offensive? (Other than the lameness, the outfits and the telegraphing of bit, of course.) It's an honest question.
Really? The Wire never won an Emmy? I never pay attention to those award shows anyway, but sheesh, who was winning out over The Wire for things like best show, best actor, etc?
I find Kathy hilarious! Not all the time, sometimes she does bomb but I think all comedians have their off nights. Also, she really doesn't expect anyone who isn't gay or a woman to get her jokes. Though my husband does find her amusing, she's one of the few female comedians he'll watch, he doesn't get my Chelsea Handler love.
I just appreciate that she makes fun of all those "serious" subjects like Oprah and religion.
As for the Emmy's oh those were on, eh. Pretty lady has a wardrobe malfunction, eh.
I was also rendered extremely uncomforable by Tom Bergeron dropping Klum in the 'drama/comedy' bit.
Also, fan of Craig Ferguson that I am, his bit with Brooke Shields was really creepy - in a non-funny way.
I'd like also to mention, that since Tina Fey left as SNL's head writer SNL's jumped on the what-10-year-old-boys-think-is-funny train too. SNL's sucktastic lately, 'cept for the political skits in the first 5 minutes.
Tina Fey, Colbert, & Stewart saved this Emmy's. Colbert's eating prunes bit was hilarious.
Hell no.
Honestly, the base objectification of the professional supermodel's super hot body was possibly the LEAST degrading and offensive thing to transpire during that opening.
I'll bet the other 4 hosts were up there desperately wishing THEY had access to a reliable gag that might rescue their dignity.
you should have been watching monday night football.
I wouldn't be offended so ditch the sexist tone. This is just stupid television.
Craig Ferguson's bit was SUPPOSED to be creepy. I didn't think that it was funny, either. But the creepiness was clearly the point.
Both of these incidents raise the same question, however. Is it sexism to objectify the bodies of women that have already made their name by objectifying their bodies?
Was Ferguson's bit creepy? Sure. Was it grounded in truth? You bet. And not generic general boys-objectify-girls truth, but rather specific boys-objectified-Brook-Shields truth.
These same bits would be quite different if Glenn Close or Tina Fey were the objects. They would different yet again if Ms. Fetterer or Ms. Landingham were the objects. But instead they were done with real sex symbols of more recent vintage.
One last point: On their way off stage, Brook Shields' went WAY out of her way to grab Ferguson's ass. Was THAT sexist?
The Emmy Awards is soooooooooo not worth watching. Of SIXTY awards, exactly THREE were things I had watched, and each was a single-episode winner.
Who really watches the shows that won? Jeez, I thought I was a bona fide couch potato, but those viewers must be dull-squared!
Heidi Klum should drag herself back to her unattractive husband and their unMommylike babies and find something to do, like pick flowers. That any of them are on television hurts.
I haven't watched the ceremony, so I will accept other people's word at face value about its "lameness." Let's say it was stupid. But I do indeed feel like asking people's opinions: what exactly is sexist in the fact that a woman's body attracts viewers? Are women here offended, as women, by the fact that Ms Klum was undressed (not totally, had a dress under another one, etc.) as part of the ceremony? Would the similar undressing of a man be equally offensive/sexist? And why?
In other posts I had already said I find this 'objectification' question interesting--in my head, it is more directly linked to sex being seen as demeaning by our society (i.e. to be lusted after, or to lust after someone, is to engage in something 'shameful', 'bad', etc.) than to actual sexism (i.e. unjustifiable discrimination).
Objectification isn't a matter of sex at all, it is a matter of treating a person as an object.
It doesn't matter WHY you do this (their gender, their job, the color of their skin, their social class, their age, etc.) it matters that you are denying their humanity.
So in what way was this incident exactly objectifying Ms Klum?
"Heidi Klum should drag herself back to her unattractive husband and their unMommylike babies and find something to do, like pick flowers. That any of them are on television hurts."
Now this is a complete wtf. What is so ugly about Seal? And how exactly are Heidi's babies "unMommylike"?
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