Are you mature enough for Katy Perry on "Sesame Street"?

Danny Tse
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edited October 2010 in The Clubhouse
By now, everyone knows that Sesame Street has pulled the video of Katy Perry's duet with Elmo due to Ms. Perry's, well, you know. ;):p Is this too over the top? After all, Elmo's buck naked.

Katy Perry's duet with Elmo

Personally, I have no problem with the video and I actually like the song.

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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,808
    edited September 2010
    Elmo is a puppet and yes, I agree with them pulling the video. There is zero reason to have cleavage anywhere on Sesame Street. It's a show for kids and the over sexualization of EVERYTHING in this country is getting out of hand. Kids do not need to be seeing or worrying about stuff like that. Tell her to put a sweater and some jeans and sneakers on and suck it up.
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  • jflail2
    jflail2 Posts: 2,868
    edited September 2010
    Jstas wrote: »
    Elmo is a puppet and yes, I agree with them pulling the video. There is zero reason to have cleavage anywhere on Sesame Street. It's a show for kids and the over sexualization of EVERYTHING in this country is getting out of hand. Kids do not need to be seeing or worrying about stuff like that. Tell her to put a sweater and some jeans and sneakers on and suck it up.

    Agreed 200%.

    How many little girls would've seen that and thought "well that's an appropriate way for me to dress too." Even 1 would have been too many.

    Yes, it's everywhere in society these days, but as Jstas says, it doesn't HAVE to be, especially in kids shows...

    I'm no prude, but we need to apply a layer of common sense/decency too...
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  • ryanjoachim
    ryanjoachim Posts: 2,046
    edited September 2010
    My son saw this episode, and now I have to pay for counseling. It totally and completely warped his mind, scared him, and scarred him for life.

    /sarcasm

    To each their own, but I see nothing wrong with this (nor did my son...I wasn't lying about that part). She was wearing an outfit I'm assuming THEY chose for her (tinkerbell's dress is what it looked like), and she definitely wasn't bouncing around or bending over trying to accentuate the fact that she has good-sized ****.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited September 2010
    Ah she should have been dressed more appropriately.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,808
    edited September 2010
    ryanjoachim wrote: »
    My son saw this episode, and now I have to pay for counseling. It totally and completely warped his mind, scared him, and scarred him for life.

    /sarcasm

    Express your opinion all you want but your "sarcasm" doesn't come off as sarcasm but rather as mocking those who share a different view. If you have to put a "/sarcasm" tag as a disclaimer in your post, you probably shouldn't have posted it to begin with. It's garbage like that which causes the knockdown, drag out fights.
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  • megasat16
    megasat16 Posts: 3,521
    edited September 2010
    Danny Tse wrote: »
    video of Katy Perry's duet with Elmo due to Ms. Perry's, well, you know. ;):p Is this too over the top? After all, Elmo's buck naked.

    I wish the bukt naked is the other way around among these two. It would be a good video to watch. :D
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited September 2010
    Give me a break, they see much more at the beach or pool.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited September 2010
    Kids would not have even noticed the cleavage.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited September 2010
    BlueFox wrote: »
    Kids would not have even noticed the cleavage.

    This. The song is about her dressing up in a costume or something, that's all most children would take away from it. Things like this are only sexualized because the adults perceive them as such, not to the kids.
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,212
    edited September 2010
    You guys are crazy!!! I have a daughter and I find no problem in the video...

    sexualization??? where??? cleavage???? where??? Really???? Please!!!
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,212
    edited September 2010
    Oh by the way. I would hit it..
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited September 2010
    TOOLFORLIFEFAN wrote: »
    Oh by the way. I would hit it..

    Word. Hall of fame rack on that girl.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,808
    edited September 2010
    Face wrote: »
    Give me a break, they see much more at the beach or pool.

    Bathing suits are appropriate for the beach or pool. There's a bit of a difference.
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,212
    edited September 2010
    Never Mind!!!
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  • carpenter
    carpenter Posts: 362
    edited September 2010
    I had no idea who she was. searched "katy perry bikini" on google images.
    now I know all I need to know. now, at the risk of sounding redundant, I would hit it. twice..
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  • jflail2
    jflail2 Posts: 2,868
    edited September 2010
    Apparently I'm too knee jerk protective of my niece...
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,808
    edited September 2010
    jflail2 wrote: »
    Apparently I'm too knee jerk protective of my niece...

    Apparently so. What the hell is the matter with you?
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited September 2010
    All I know is that when my kids were little, they saw their mom's **** a hell of a lot more than I did. It didn't seem to warp them too much.
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  • tommyboy
    tommyboy Posts: 1,414
    edited September 2010
    jflail2 wrote: »
    Apparently I'm too knee jerk protective of my niece...

    So you also close her eyes when she walks through a magazine section? If she is watching sesame street, she is probably way too young to even know what the fuss is even about. There is a lot of ways girls turn into a "****"(Which is what I guess you are worried about?), but having some healthy cleavage on sesame street is not one of them;)
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  • ryanjoachim
    ryanjoachim Posts: 2,046
    edited September 2010
    Jstas wrote: »
    Express your opinion all you want but your "sarcasm" doesn't come off as sarcasm but rather as mocking those who share a different view. If you have to put a "/sarcasm" tag as a disclaimer in your post, you probably shouldn't have posted it to begin with. It's garbage like that which causes the knockdown, drag out fights.

    You're right of course, and I apologize. Unfortunately it's too late for me to edit it out of my post.

    On a more serious note: Nudity and cleavage is all about context. If your wife (assuming you have one of course) takes your daughter into the clothing store with her and your daughter sees all the billboards and signs that show women in nothing but a bra and underwear, do you worry about their mental anguish at seeing that?

    I would hope not, and the reason is this - those billboards are designed to show how they look and feel, not how they "make you look sexy" (in general). It's the same (to me) as in that episode of Sesame Street; nothing about that episode had sexuality in mind. The song was innocent, she did only moderate moving so that nothing bounced around. Sure the body is a sexual thing, but I don't think it would appear that way to children after they saw this episode.
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  • pmckeealaska
    pmckeealaska Posts: 808
    edited September 2010
    Yes, God forbid a child see a hint of a breast...the very thing they fed off of as a baby. There is nothing overtly sexual about the human body and the idea that somehow a child is going to be unduly influenced by seeing even part of a human breast is ridiculous. If they are, it's because their parents teach them that the body is something to be ashamed of. Ridiculous. People need to quit being so damned uptight about these kind of things in this country.
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  • ryanjoachim
    ryanjoachim Posts: 2,046
    edited September 2010
    pmckeealaska wrote: »
    Yes, God forbid a child see a hint of a breast...the very thing they fed off of as a baby. There is nothing overtly sexual about the human body and the idea that somehow a child is going to be unduly influenced by seeing even part of a human breast is ridiculous. If they are, it's because their parents teach them that the body is something to be ashamed of. Ridiculous. People need to quit being so damned uptight about these kind of things in this country.

    I've learned my lesson, so i'm passing it on to you.

    That's being a bit harsh. People have simply been stating their opinions on the video so far, and there's no need to call people uptight. That IS your opinion, but in this context it's more liable to start a fight than get your opinion across.
    MrNightly wrote: »
    "Dr Dunn admitted that his research could also be interpreted as evidence that women are shallower than men. He said: "Let's face it - there's evidence to support it."
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  • Joe08867
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    edited September 2010
    Jstas wrote: »
    Bathing suits are appropriate for the beach or pool. There's a bit of a difference.

    I don't see the difference. It's a short dress. She doesn't have enough **** for cleavage and they are pretty much covered. Did I see the wrong video or something???

    Have any of you seen Hannah Montana or any of those shows? Those girls dress inappropriately.

    Katy Perry looks like wedding Tinkerbell. I just don't see the problem, besides the fact that the song sucks with either the original or Elmo lyrics.
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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited September 2010
    TOOLFORLIFEFAN wrote: »
    Oh by the way. I would hit it..

    X2!

    I see nothing wrong with the video, our older minds think differently than their young minds. I do not think they even thought about it like we are.
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  • adabro
    adabro Posts: 212
    edited September 2010
    My four year old boy would not notice her top, he would only care about the singing and dancing..

    My seven year old would definitely notice her ‘assets’…
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited September 2010
    I'm mature enough to get a woody from watching it.
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited September 2010
    Cool song!! Overall not too over the top, I'm sure kids have seen way worse on other shows/movies. I can understand how others would feel though.
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  • polrbehr
    polrbehr Posts: 2,830
    edited September 2010
    I think they're being slightly hypocritical pulling this video, it seems pretty tame to me...
    So, are you willing to put forth a little effort or are you happy sitting in your skeptical poo pile?


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  • schutz2106
    schutz2106 Posts: 115
    edited September 2010
    While some may think this is ok I for one think that the less "crap" our kids need to see on Sesame street the better. But I look at our local high school that my daughter goes to and she is dressed like a nun compared to some of the kids out there.
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  • pmckeealaska
    pmckeealaska Posts: 808
    edited September 2010
    ryanjoachim wrote: »
    I've learned my lesson, so i'm passing it on to you.

    That's being a bit harsh. People have simply been stating their opinions on the video so far, and there's no need to call people uptight. That IS your opinion, but in this context it's more liable to start a fight than get your opinion across.


    I fail to see how stating a fact is being harsh. Our culture teaches children that the human body is something to be ashamed of and the pulling of this video only supports this truth. I'll say it again, there is nothing overtly sexual about the human body in and of itself and a child will be even more clueless about this than an adult.
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