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Just an observation...
Nov. 3rd, 2010 10:10 pmHey gang.
Remember that big fuss over Katy Perry's boobages in that video she did with Elmo? If you search for it you the Toobs, you'll find it. Well, reading an article on it, it reminded me of something I used to giggle about when looking back at one of my favourite TV shows from childhood - Play School.
There was a presenter called Betina. She was *awesome*. I remember watching an animated film about wolf-dingo children that were doing stuff to Swan Lake music, but I don't know if that was a racially sensitive cartoon or not. Anyway, Betina was in it as the storyteller in the intro and I loved her.
On the show, Play School, she often went braless, and she would wear loose shirts. As is the way with Play School shenanigans, she and her cohost often went down on all fours and jumped around and did all sorts of actions to kids songs. And it was particularly funny when John Hamblin was cohosting with her, cause he'd pull faces when things got a little *adult* that the kids wouldn't notice, but the older people would be laughing hysterically over. Play School, like Sesame Street, was cool with the adult humour that went over the kid's heads.
I wonder how Benita's braless jiggling generosity would be recieved in the current American climate? As a kid, I never noticed Benita's boobs. I just saw her pretty curly dark hair and her big smile, and I laughed when John Hamblin pulled silly faces. It never occurred to me that she was exposing herself. Seeing a woman so at east and comfortable with her body probably did me a *lot* of good. Made a hairy, angry feminist out of me. Thank God for Benita and her free bosom.
Remember that big fuss over Katy Perry's boobages in that video she did with Elmo? If you search for it you the Toobs, you'll find it. Well, reading an article on it, it reminded me of something I used to giggle about when looking back at one of my favourite TV shows from childhood - Play School.
There was a presenter called Betina. She was *awesome*. I remember watching an animated film about wolf-dingo children that were doing stuff to Swan Lake music, but I don't know if that was a racially sensitive cartoon or not. Anyway, Betina was in it as the storyteller in the intro and I loved her.
On the show, Play School, she often went braless, and she would wear loose shirts. As is the way with Play School shenanigans, she and her cohost often went down on all fours and jumped around and did all sorts of actions to kids songs. And it was particularly funny when John Hamblin was cohosting with her, cause he'd pull faces when things got a little *adult* that the kids wouldn't notice, but the older people would be laughing hysterically over. Play School, like Sesame Street, was cool with the adult humour that went over the kid's heads.
I wonder how Benita's braless jiggling generosity would be recieved in the current American climate? As a kid, I never noticed Benita's boobs. I just saw her pretty curly dark hair and her big smile, and I laughed when John Hamblin pulled silly faces. It never occurred to me that she was exposing herself. Seeing a woman so at east and comfortable with her body probably did me a *lot* of good. Made a hairy, angry feminist out of me. Thank God for Benita and her free bosom.
