{"id":24277,"date":"2012-02-07T02:57:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T02:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-outrage-is-tiresome-and-deeply-hypocritical-3\/"},"modified":"2012-02-07T02:57:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T02:57:09","slug":"the-outrage-is-tiresome-and-deeply-hypocritical-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-outrage-is-tiresome-and-deeply-hypocritical-3\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you\u2019ve been tired out by before. M.I.A. was illustrating her line, acting out the attitude of the words: performing. Fine, it may not be legal to flip the bird on television, but that\u2019s simply a remnant of the fifties we haven\u2019t shaken. Unless somebody was handing out Xanax with the foam fingers, Lucas Oil Stadium was ringing with the music of profanities last night. More to the point, television viewers were submitted to ad after ad that likened women\u2014negatively\u2014to sofas, cars, and candy. Mr. Winter [of the Parents Television Council] didn\u2019t have anything to say about that, so I\u2019d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks profanity is somehow more harmful to our children than images of violence and misogyny. (My two sons, fourteen and eleven, thought the Fiat ad was corny, so I guess they will be safe without Mr. Winter\u2019s intervention.) I say we get out of The Pretending To Be Moral game altogether and use the Internet for important things like posting pictures of cats looking at croissants and PDFs of sensitive government documents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/culture\/2012\/02\/im-sorry-mia-apologized.html\">Sasha Frere-Jones, \u201cI\u2019m Sorry M.I.A Apologized\u201d<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theopensea.tumblr.com\/\">theopensea<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you\u2019ve been tired out by before. M.I.A. was illustrating her line, acting out the attitude of the words: performing. Fine, it may not be legal to flip the bird on television, but that\u2019s simply a remnant of the fifties we haven\u2019t shaken. Unless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6jz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}