M.I.A.’s middle finger stole the show at Super Bowl XLVI, which just so happened to be the most-watched TV show in U.S. history with 111.3 million viewers.
PHOTOS: M.I.A. Middle Finger Moments
Yep, the “Swagger Like Us” singer flipped off 111 million people, but I still think that people need to take a chill pill.
If you don’t know by now, in a spontaneous moment of adrenaline, the 36-year-old songstress from London flipped the bird as she rapped, “I’ma say this once, yeah I don’t give a sh*t” during her performance with Madonna.
I honestly didn’t catch the somewhat rude gesture, but Mr. Uptight himself, Parents Television Council President Tim Winter, sure did!
He released a statement saying:
“NBC fumbled and the NFL lied because a performer known as M.I.A. felt it necessary to flip off millions of families,” Winter said. “It is unfortunate that a spectacular sporting event was overshadowed once again by broadcasting the selfish acts of a desperate performer.”
Despite the clever wordplay from President Winter, I must say, he and his wholesome organization have either lost touch with America’s changing values or they just hate brown women.
VIDEO: M.I.A. Flips Off America During The Super Bowl
M.I.A. has been throwing up her middle finger for years. It’s what she does! M.I.A.’s flipping the bird is to her act as what the leg kick is to Michael Jackson’s. So why are we mad?
A source close to M.I.A. said of MiddleFingerGate, “She wasn’t thinking. It wasn’t any kind of statement. She was caught in the moment and she’s incredibly sorry.”
Justin Timberlake issued an apology and life went on, but M.I.A issued an apology, then got dissed. Winter insists, “A simple apology rings hollow after yet another slap in the face to families.”
I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t offended by M.I.A.’s middle finger, or by Janet Jackson’s nipple.
M.I.A’s mishap will be another excuse to keep brown women off the television. Another reason to censor the new America. Another reason to air another soon-to-be canceled television show without brown women.
The Brady Bunch went off air for a reason. There will never be another show like that, just like there will never be another Cosby Show, because the times have changed.
We understand morals and values, and they’re just not entertaining anymore.
Kids are smarter and aware of more, so we don’t need to shelter our children from the realities of the world. That’s where parenting comes in.
If the Parent Television Council wants to help, they should help parents deal with how to raise their children in the social media age, instead of trying to use television to instill values in children.
People on television will never set examples for children in homes where parents actually parent. So if you’re upset by the M.I.A. middle finger, go smoke a blunt, drink some Ciroc, or make it rain in the club.
Better yet, complain about Aaron Hernandez’s touch down celebration where he broke into a bank and then used the money to make it rain in the strip club!
In case you’re wondering why no one will say anything about that, it’s because he is not a brown woman.
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