That's so ridiculous. Yes the shirt was a bit low cut but do children have to be so censored that they can't see a low cut shirt? Her breasts were fully covered so I don't understand the big deal really. It's ridiculous that people have to be so sensitive and try to shelter their children from the real world. less

Evidently Katy Perry made a video with a version of her hit "Hot and Cold" for Sesame Street. She wore a nice, normal yellow dress and the Prudery Club of America called for a ban on the video.

About 20 minutes ago, I saw the entire video on youtube, now youtube has pulled the video.

There was NOTHING sexual or provocative about it. What is WRONG with Americans.

Here's a link.

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Not gonna lie, I saw the video and couldn't figure out why she was wearing the dress that she was. Was it so bad that it needed to be pulled from television? No, in my opinion, but it was not appropriate for the show at all. On Katy's part I really think she was deliberately trying to be provocative, which is sad but necessary when your music sucks as badly as hers does.

But yeah, c'mon. That shit scarcely covered her nips and to me that's not really the kind of thing you wear on Sesame Street if you want to show respect to your audience. Are kids exposed to boobs all the time? Yeah. Are boobs inherently naughty and evil? No, far from. But do kids constantly need to be bombarded with highly sexualized images and scenarios (agreeing that the flirting with Elmo was awkward,) even on Sesame Street? I really don't think so.

If I were a parent I think I'd be pissed to, but I don't think I'd try to get it pulled. I'd probably just try to talk to my kids about the boobage (if they were open to it, kids are pretty squeamish about that stuff sometimes) and see what they thought of it, etc. It's more useful to them in the long run since two dimensional, hyper-sexualized female pop stars aren't going anywhere and all genders need to learn to form healthy attitudes toward sexuality and gender in spite of these images. less