Can we start a separate thread for arguing for Christ’s sake?
I was most bothered by the fact that the children came out in all white to sing in the middle of the sexcapade and then Shakira and Jlo shaked their asses together and were being sexual girl on girl right in front of them. What a blending of ideals and an oversexualization for the youth. Now social media is blowing up with articles of “It wasn’t overly sexual, you’re just a racist” because they are representing their culture with dance. “You should tell your children to admire JLO for dancing on that pole, it takes great athletic ability. Doesn’t she look healthy and great at 50!?” Yes that was actually trending on Facebook. Because I’m totally going to tell my impressionable child that. What is this world coming to...
I was having this conversation with some white women at my job, where they were saying how real strippers thought the performance was cringeworthy but that we need to "tread lightly" when discussing the Super Bowl performance because "it had TWO women of color and that's important".
I told her that as a Mexican, I'm perfectly fine with saying that her Puerto Rican ass was being really cringy with suddenly trying to make pole dancing her "thing" just because Cardi B made it okay.
Then she went on to say that "People always steal from Black sex workers"...then I told her that Cardi B doesn't consider herself black, she considers herself Latina and the person I was speaking to immediately started apologizing for assuming Cardi B is black.
Anyways, I say all that because it's really dumb how people are trying to not be offensive when critiquing the performance just because two Latinas were on stage.
When I told my mom about that mental gymnastics encounter, she even said that it's weird to have JLo going up and down a pole when people still consider Janet Jackson's pasty incident too risqué for the Super Bowl...and who cares where JLo's roots are, she said so herself that she's Jenny from the Block. She's American.
It's crazy that there's clearly an agenda being pushed towards white people to not be overly critical of something because it makes them racist, I think it's a method to stop people from thinking too hard about what they're watching by gaslighting an entire group into thinking that THEY'RE the bad ones for being uncomfortable about it.