Posted on 02/28/2013 7:31:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Despite solid ratings for Sunday's 85th annual Academy Awards, host Seth MacFarlane is catching a lot of flak for his crude jokes about women, Jews, Abraham Lincoln and most notably, actresses' boobs.
In a musical number titled "We Saw Your Boobs," MacFarlane pointed out actresses who have bared all on-screen — often during emotionally-charged or rape scenes. Women both in the audience and watching at home were offended by the song, calling it crass and inappropriate. We spoke with Elizabeth Cantillon, film producer and executive vice president of production at Sony who was in the audience at the Dolby Theater Sunday night, who tells us she and her colleagues were outraged:
I was with a number of women in the movie business who were shocked that that's what the Academy Awards chose to emphasize when really what we should be doing is promoting growth to our business and what's great about our business.
You're talking about the great American actresses, you're talking about Angelina Jolie and Meryl Streep. People who have had long and successful careers, have won awards, and objectifying them and it's not right — even if you're trying to be humorous it's identifying a select group and picking on them for ridicule. Which I would think, with the history of the Academy and people who are contributors in Hollywood, that wouldn't be okay.
Even if it had been hilariously funny, I don't know that that should be the source of comedy on a show that is meant to promote our business around the world. These women are international stars, that's their business, they're important businesswomen as well as artists and that's key to success in our business and appreciating them.
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Rap singers can sing about killing women and using expletives to describe them and be allowed to sing them at the Grammies?
You can use the word : VAGINA in the title of a play with nary a peep, and not use the word Boobs?
Who creates these rules?
Phony Outrage. The topic of Greg Gutfeld’s book, “The Joy of Hate” in action.
They’re important businesswomen? I think someone is thinking a bit too much of some people. They are entertainers and that’s the extent of it. Their opinions, their ideas, their way of life is not even remotely important to me, nor should it be to anyone else.
As for the boobs song, what do you expect? Decency and morality have long gone the way of the do-do bird in hollywood, if they ever even existed.
Meh. They’re always outraged about something.
I fond FIND this “outrage” to be comical ( hypocritical really
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What I found comical was the term “great American actresses”.
All the women referenced in the song knew about it beforehand and their reactions were pre-taped, so they were all in on it.
That being said. MacFarlane is a raging moonbat, and hardcore partisan Democrat.
A woman purposefully bares her breasts to the world in exchange for money and then claims virtuous outrage at having someone talk about it in public.
Amazing.
I can’t imagine seeing Meryl Streep’s boobs. That would make me puke.
This^^^
Worst. Host. Ever.
No that would be Whoopi Goldberg.
MacFarlane’s crime was to make jokes about something other than political and religious conservatives.
I like how they’re complaining so many of the scenes were rape scenes, and he’s supposedly objectifying them. He didn’t make the scenes ladies, he just strung them together.
I found the song funny and the entire show much better than the last 10 years AT LEAST! I would love for Seth of host every year, but alas, he has said he would never host again. Too bad because ABC made a ton of money that night.
Uh, pretty sure when a woman makes the decision to appear nude on screen, 99% of the time, she is objectifying herself.
True, even though he's done that plenty of times before. He basically is a copy of Trey and Matt (with the exception that they certainly are not partisan Democrats, like MacFarlane is ).
That being said. MacFarlane is a raging moonbat, and hardcore partisan Democrat.
But also incredible at making tv shows and movies. Ted if you haven’t seen it, is funny as heck. Best movie of 2012 bar none.
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