LMFAO

So today I am watching a bit of MTV, my sons love a good boy band, so we are happily singing along to some non offensive New Direction and then next up is LMFAO with I’m Sexy and I know It.

The video is basically men in pants. I don’t really have a problem with that, they are obviously taking the piss, anyone sporting budgie smugglers and an afro deserves to be watched. It is quite different underwear action to that usually seen by women in videos, complete with sense of humour, non perfect males and no women in charge of and leering over the semi naked men. Funny that.

Nothing new there then, the thing that made me more surprised was the addition of smiley faces over their pants during the willy waggling bits. Really? Why? Am I just desensitised to this sort of thing after being subjected to my little boys waggling their willies with unbridled joy after bath time? Are men and women the world over choking on their TV dinners while watching the chart show? Or will children be scarred for life at such shameless thrusting?

It seems de rigueur for women in underwear to shake their bits so why not men? The Benny Banassi video with women using power tools was based on that very fact, and there are crotch shots a plenty in loads of videos,  Eric Prydz anyone?

In fact I have just googled sexy videos and after watching David Guetta and the beautifully titled Sexy Bitch, Fedde Le Grand with Put Your Hands up for Detroit and D.O.N.S Pump up the Jam I am even more confused (not to mention slightly disturbed).

OK so it’s pretty obvious I’m not going to like those sort of videos and that’s not really what this is about, it’s just that when a man is in a video that shows a jiggling (great word) penis behind some  material it has to be covered and I’m not sure why.

Is a moving willy more offensive to moving boobs? Offensive to who? If men, women and children will be so disturbed by this unsightly horror why is it they will not be just as shocked and scarred by inflated bouncing boobs, crotch shots where you can practically see what the woman has had for breakfast, and shameless booty bouncing (just realised women of my age should never write the words booty bounce and never ever say them out loud).

My husband often accuses me of generalising and jumping to conclusions about this feminist malarkey, but I really can’t see any other reason than good old fashioned double standards and sexism. Women’s bodies are fair game to whoever wants to take a look at them. We are so desensitised to these kinds of images that they are deemed to have no shock value. Women are there to titillate, amuse and sell stuff with sex.

It’s a small thing (no offence to the LMFAO men intended) in the grand scale of things, but all these small things add up and get right on my non oiled, non bouncy tits.