THE MIDDLE FINGER ON OBSCENE BEHAVIOR

As everyone knows, Madonna made a huge return on the biggest stage of all last Sunday at Superbowl XLVI,. and although she put on quite the show no one really was talking about it.  Instead, the attention was pointed towards some rapper named M.I.A. who one would think her brain was missing in action when she randomly flipped off the camera.  Honestly, I didn't even notice.  I guess when you do a double take you do.  (Video to the right)

She also said shit too.  Look out world.  We have a controversy.

Honestly I would think we have evolved a little bit from being a tight ass generation who lets little things like this bother us.  But who am I kidding.  There will always be right wing nut jobs who will proclaim we are going to hell for watching this girl trying to make a name for herself.  However, the whole situation got me to thinking.  What is the origin for obscene gestures?  Who started it?  Where did this craziness come from?



Well I guess starts in Greece.  According to Wikipedia, the "finger" is used to insult someone in comedy to insult someone for being a katapugon, which loosely translated means "someone who submits to anal penetration."  Leave it to the Greeks to come up with something so strange.  These are the same people who wrote plays about incest an d tragedy and celebrating it all with wine.  They coined the term Oedipus Complex, which is a man's desire to sleep with their mom.  Hmmmm.

So that has translated to us giving the finger.  Wanna see something funny?  I entered "flipping off" in Google, and here is what I got.  As you can see the finger itself has become so universally known, why would it offend anyone anymore?  It's like paint on the wall next door.  It's just there.  So instead of celebrating a great football game and enjoying the performance of someone who is an icon is the music industry, we're all going to sit around and talk about the middle finger.  Please let's grow up people.  There are more serious issues going on in the world.  People are starving, homeless, sick, ignored, etc, etc.  I don't think some girl who wants to flick off the camera at the Superbowl is something that demands our attention.

Keeping it real,
MRJ