Super Bowl XLV is going down this Sunday, the sporting event of the year in which the majority of the nation comes together to overindulge in fried foods, and other artery-clogging snacks and dips, and drink beer while watching the best in the NFL battle it out for football supremacy (at least until September when the new season starts). I’m not mad at this at all; I enjoy good ol’ fashioned sports rivalry and copious amounts of onion dip.
However, the Super Bowl is as synonymous with overindulgence of food as it is with the overindulgence of sex. There’s the annual Lingerie Bowl, the salacious sexist GoDaddy ads, repeated uproar over sex-trafficking for players and tourists, and even now there is the “Porn Sunday” movement to help men cure their sex addiction on Super Bowl Sunday. All of these outputs stem from the same idea that men are sex-crazed beasts that only respond to sexual stimuli. Since the Super Bowl and football are assumed to be mainly of interest to men, it’s not a surprise that advertisers who spend millions of dollars for 30 seconds of precious Super Bowl ad time are appealing to the lowest common denominator through sexual imagery. Ain’t nothing new. But let’s focus on the activity and coverage leading up to the event.
You might want to think again, unless you want a job in which everyone you work with gets to gossip about your weight.
What We Missed.
Although young people are identifying as mixed race, that doesn’t mean we are post-race in America. Duh.
Finally, some stats on discrimination against transgender folks. If you don’t know, now you know.
On using social media to find or donate breast milk.
The appalling Protect Life Act could allow doctors to deny necessary care to a pregnant woman if it hurts the fetus.
The first doctor to fill the late Dr. Tiller’s position has had some difficulty because her landlord has said it would be a “nuisance.”