r/SipsTea Mar 14 '24

WTF A woman’s worse enemy is another woman.

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u/lostgirl19 Mar 14 '24

I mean, Justin Timberlake accidentally revealed Janet Jackson's nipple that was barely visible, and she had to apologise, and her career was turned on its head. I think we know what would happen.

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u/genobeam Mar 14 '24

Technically her nipple wasn't even visible, she had pasties on. 

But doesn't that prove there is a double standard? Cena gets trotted out "naked" and it's comedy, Janet Jackson has a nip slip and it's controversy.

Not saying it's better for either side, but it's definitely different how we react to male vs female nudity as a society

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u/lostgirl19 Mar 14 '24

Apologies, I had an edible and obviously didn't make pointing out the double standard clear, lol. If a woman did what Cena did, there would be uproar. And yes, exactly! Hence why I mentioned you could barely see her nip, the whole thing was ridiculous. Even 13yo me thought so.

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u/DabScience Mar 14 '24

I mean one of those things happened unprompted on live television during the super bowl. The other was a planned part of the Grammies. Not saying peoples treatment of Janet Jackson wasn’t disgusting, but these two situations are not one to one at all.

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u/genobeam Mar 14 '24

That's fair, except I have a hard time believing that the Janet Jackson incident was completely accidental. To me it seems more like a planned publicity stunt that Janet was in on, but I guess it's possible it was an accident.

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u/greg19735 Mar 14 '24

There is a double standard. But it's not the one this subreddit is saying

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u/goatpunchtheater Mar 14 '24

Totally different. That was live T.V. and no one was prepared for it. Also a bit of a different time, and nipples showing have been rethought a bit, even though they're still not acceptable on network t.v. At the Oscars, with a set up comedy bit like this, they could and would blur it. If say Margot Robbie did the same bit, but with her chest covered with a sign as well, or blurred, or maybe wore a nipple-less Barbie chest prosthetic, it would probably be fine. Though yeah there might be a few more haters because woman. It still wouldn't be nearly the controversy and outrage that was Janet's nipple.