Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Yo! Adrain! Put Your Top Back On!

There's no nudity in the "Rocky" movies. Lots of blood and battering, heads hitting the canvas and even a death in the ring, but no sex. In "Cinderella Man", Russell Crowe and Rene Zellweger keep it clean - she worries at home with the kids while he goes out and knocks somebody's head off.

See, boxing is a clean, family sport. You can take the kids and the grannies, it's all good fun. But earlier this month at a USA Boxing event in Stockton, California, some of the ring girls appeared topless, and it's "Janet Jackson" all over again.
The scope of the guest list remains uncertain. The identity and number of the ring girls who went topless during the fifth and sixth bouts of a six-fight card remains unclear as well. One witness said he saw three women; another said "four or five."

Officer Pete Smith, a spokesman for the Stockton police department, described Chief Wayne Hose as "absolutely appalled this type of behavior took place," adding that the department's youth athletic league, one of the intended beneficiaries of the event, has returned a $3,000 donation.

"This obviously is an illegal event," said Armando Garcia, head of the California state athletic commission, adding, "Distasteful is not the right word."

Maybe it's me, maybe I'm the crazy one here, but can somebody please explain to me with a rational and cohesive argument exactly why a pretty girl with bare breasts is "distasteful" between rounds of boxing where half-naked men beat each other into unconsciousness.

I'm really at a loss for words on this one.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You hit the nail on the head. If not boxing, our police shows have become increasingly more "realistic" in showing trauma victims. A recent CSI Miami showed a man impaled on an ice sculpture. Yet, as you say, a bare breast upsets everyone. Our priorities are totally backwards.