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A Super Bowl for the People (Prospect)
Somehow Madonna pulled off an amazing feat during the Super Bowl: bringing gay
culture and aggressive female sexuality into the heart of masculinity’s
holiest of days without anyone seeming to care. While the cheerleading segment
was embarrassingly silly, I otherwise have to disagree with Tom Carson’s
assessment that the Super Bowl’s narrative was Clint Eastwood versus Madonna,
with Clint winning. I’m more in the camp of Tom’s friend who said, “It was
Clint AND Madonna.”
Madonna was hauled onto the field by an army of half-naked men in gladiator
costumes and then sang “Vogue,” a song about a dance style invented and
nourished in gay nightclubs. Madonna even rolled out “Like A Prayer”, a number
that used to bait conservatives with its provocative blend of sexual and
religious themes. Yet, the only offended response from the guardians of moral
purity the Monday after the show was half-hearted complaining that hip-hop
performer M.I.A., who joined Madonna and rapper Nicky Minaj onstage, threw the
finger at the camera, which network censors blurred out anyway. This year’s
Super Bowl narrative is one of big strides made toward less sexism and more
inclusion. That strikes me as a big change, ...
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