After spending a week listening to pundits prognosticating on the fall of Western Civilization given the flap over the Desperate Housewives beginning to last Monday's Monday Night Football game, here are two words to both sides of the argument -- SHUT UP. For all of those who were shocked by the racy opening, save your righteous anger for things that matter more, such as actual pornography, racism and violent sex and talk to your kids about what they saw, rather than talking at them about it or around the situation. For people on the other side, don't pretend the opening was not problematic, because it was. Football should not be marketing sex, whether it's on the sideline with cheerleaders in skimpy clothes, on team websites with cheerleaders in provacative poses, or anywhere else.
Was the opening troubling? Yes. Should we be discussing it as a society as much as we are? No. With all of the serious issues we have to consider involving sex, including rape, abortion, teenage pregnancy, and hypersexuality in our society, I have a hard time believing the Monday Night Football opening is worth more than 10 minutes of our time. Let it go, because continuing to talk about merely proves the point of the marketers -- Sex Sells...
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