Katy Perry Cut From Sesame Street For Turning Moms On

So ridiculous...she mentions she is wearing dress up clothes. Do those dress up clothes look ANY different than all the princess dresses we dress our little girls in? no. If they are complaining about her clothes there better not be princess/ballerina dress up clothes in their kid's closet!

So much to respond to, so little time. First off, amen to allyssaroyse and Megan Smith. And about letting a 5-year-old watch anything with MTV in the title? What did you expect? The network is aimed at teenagers.

Personally, I find Katy Perry adorable, and well suited for Sesame Street. Little kids know boobs, and there's nothing wrong with them.

Maybe the moms Sesame Street was afraid to offend are the ones who go off to work every day and leave the stay home dads to keep the fort ;)

Um, am I wrong or are preschoolers pretty darned familiar with boobies? You know, as a food source. This is certainly no worse than the billboards and bus ads my kids see daily that are actually exploitative of women.

"All that you have is your soul." Tracy Chapman

now, see i've a problem with you teaching your child that an individual who does things of which you don't approve makes that individual bad. that teaches your daughter that if a person does one bad thing, that makes the person bad, and nothing that person does will have any merit.

i watched katy on extreme makeover home edition the other day, and she and xibit designed a pretty awesome room for two middle-school-aged girls. more, the girls LOVED it. and i thought it was the best room in the house.

she seemed great with those kids. she seemed interested in getting to know them, interested that they do well for themselves. she seemed to enjoy their company. but you've already taught your daughter that katy's a bad example in all situations.

katy talked briefly about her own experiences as a child. she's one of those folks who came from nothing. and now she's found success. there's a lesson for you. there's what you should be teaching your daughter.

as for sesame street -- they've had adam sandler on there shoveling cookies in his face like the cookie monster. nobody got offended by that. here's a guy who could encourage bad table manners. but nobody said that was wrong. here's a guy who is generally crass to most everyone. having said that, i thought the clip was amusing, as i think the guy is amusing.

i didn't have a problem with katy's attire or the fact that she was invited to be on the show. i have a HUGE problem with someone judging what is appropriate for an audience. it's called CENSORSHIP, and it sucks.

Considering all of the other stuff we allow our children to see in the form of print ads and tv commercials this is nothing. The kids didn't get anything sexual from it, just the parents. We have lost our innocence, but this does NOT take away theirs.

I know this is old news, but I've had so many thoughts on this topic and have tended to avoid getting into it b/c I knew it would be wordy.

But here goes--

The first time I watched it, I honestly didn't know what people were upset about. I thought maybe it had to do with the lyrics of the original song, a song I REALLY didn't know. I did feel a little icked out by Elmo running around her legs but, as someone who often rocks cleavage revealing clothes, her flesh mesh (rhyming!) was enough for me.

Then, I read what other moms had to say, so I decided to research.

Surely another celebrity had worn something as revealing?!? Kim Cattrall? Nope. Tyra Banks? Nope. Sarah Jessica? Nope.

Not a single celebrity had worn anything less than a v-neck sweater with tank underneath. Clothing on Sesame Street it seemed was conservative.

So I watched it again.

Yep, it was an awful risque clothing choice. Yes, her desperation did seem a bit creepy.

And, yes, I am glad they pulled it.

Do it again in jeans and a t-shirt, Katy. I'll be happy to watch. Well, as happy as I can be after getting one of your annoying songs lodged in my head.

-Abby

What she's wearing isn't the issue, it's fine.

The fact that she was invited on in the first place? I have issues with that.

The lyrics of KP's songs are not appropriate for my ten year olds and I was speechless when I heard they had shot this segment on Sesame Street for crying out loud. I have boys but if I had girls, I'd be appalled.

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What age, here, are we calling "adults"?

Maybe I'm just incredibly old-school for my 28 years, but I much prefer John Mayer and the like to Katy Perry. Katy Perry doesn't seem to be a very "adult" musical choice to entertain parents, IMO.

But again, maybe it's just me.

My kids see more skin at the beach. She's not popping out - even while running.

I don't understand the hoopla.

I think this might have to do more with where her cherry chapstick has been. (-;

Walking the line between boobs-as-sexy and boobs-as-functional is an interesting debate for me, and in this case I see a distinction: the sexy part is in a child's forum (whether or not they explicitly notice, WE as ADULTS put it there) and the functional part was more in an adult's forum, as in the child wearing the onesie doesn't have the consciousness to understand the cultural message. I am pro-boobs, pro-breastfeeding, and completely anti-sexualization for our kids. I can't say whether or not Perry's cleavage is inappropriate in general, because I deem television to be inappropriate in my house, but this issue of sexualization vs. naturalization of boobs is tricky in this case.

Are you a good breast or a bad breast?

Seriously, our society is so conflicted over women's breasts, it would be laughable. If it weren't so damn sad.

Breasts are a part of the body. Everyone -- men included -- have them.

They're a source of nutrition for infants of all mammalian species. They offer humans other pleasurable benefits.

Enjoy them by all means. Whatever that means to you. But -- we don't need to worship or revile them. Both attitudes are giving them way too much importance in the overall scheme of things.

As for Katy Perry (and hers) in that clip? It's not sexual at all. For goodness sake, she's singing with Elmo. Is there a more asexual muppet?

Take a chill pill, Sesame Street. And enjoy the sunny day.

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Sexy and creepy are both in the eye of the beholder. I didn't see anything sexy or creepy -and we're both right. The sensual buttons that trigger our psychosomatic sexual responses are deep and totally individual. It's simply not possible to say that something or someone "IS" sexy.

AS a result, it's pretty dangerous to "censor" art of any sort based on one person - or group of people's - idea of sexy.

I agree that the Disney Princesses (and really, Tinkerbell) need to put some clothes on IF we're going to be bothered by Katy Perry. I am more inclined to teach critical thinking and desexualize breasts by normalizing them and giving girls and women power over their own bodies. Teaching them to respect themselves and that they are not responsible for controlling other people's reactions to their bodies.

Beyond that, to look at the deeper messages that the media is sending out girls - and Disney is a great offender.

Kids think things are good / bad / right / wrong / sexy because we tell them. Boobs are just boobs until we tell kids how to think about them. Just like when they're learning to walk, fall down, and look to us to see if we gasp or laugh....

We need to send messages of tolerance, autonomy, strength, beauty and empowered feminine sexuality without shame and fear.

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Me too! And then I am gonna rebel and play sesame street music and katy perry muisc all day! LOL

I'm totally cheating and pasting from a blog that i wrote on my personal blog, but the Disney thing sticks in my craw:

I’m listening to all these mothers bitch and moan about Ms. Perry’s perky pair in her golden corset, and I can’t help but think “what a bunch of hypocrisy.” How many of these mothers let their kids watch The Little Mermaid? Have you seen what that chick wears? Pasties! She wears pasties! (Granted, if I had boobs like that, that’s all I’d wear also.) She also wears a “skirt” that is so far below her navel that if she were old enough to have pubic hair, Sebastian would have to become a pubic crab of the Brazilian sort of pluck those pubes under the sea, and everywhere else.

I’ve long had an issue with The Little Mermaid. It’s not that I don’t agree with the fundamental premise that “everything’s better down where it’s wetter,” it’s that the lesson of the film is that the girl should give up everything she is and has in order to be “part of your world.” She sets her eye on the guy, and her entire world becomes consumed by getting his attention and fitting into his world. That’s bad enough (and, to be clear, the mass of most of mass-media messaging) but she LITERALLY gives up her voice and her ability to swim and therefore to be with her friends and family. Rendering her mute and imprisoned. Nice. That’s right honey, in order to get the guy, you give up your strength and autonomy, and need to look just like the rest of their world. Ugh!

I am guessing that the mommies who are so angry about Katy Perry’s teenage ta-tas were perfectly happy to let their little girls absorb that aqueous nonsense of The Little Mermaid, and didn’t bat an eye. As much as I’d love to run through the whole Disney line-up (especially the fact that the reason you never see pictures of Tinkerbell bent over from behind is that you’d be able to see the magic cave where she keeps her fairy powers) this is actually a serious issue.

The messages that we send our girls about their bodies will, whether we mean for them to or not, shape how they feel about their bodies, their value in the world and their own power to both protect their bodies from harm and use them for pleasure.

Step one: teach our daughters that their bodies are nothing to be ashamed of.

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Like we say when Bowling for a Cure.....SAVE THE TA-TAs!!!

My 5 year old daughter adores Katy Perry. I saw nothing wrong with this video. My daughter never said one thing about her cleavage. I asked her what she thought of the video. She told me she liked Katy's outfit, green looks good on her and that she thought it was funny how Elmo ran from Katy and was playing tag but Katy didn't know. Here is the thing though, I DON'T shelter my child. If she asks me a question or wants to KNOW something I tell her. We don't look at nakedness or sexuality as something SINFUL or DIRTY. My 5 year old has also seen the Katy Perry video for California Gurlz, in which Katy is laying on a cloud naked(you can't see anything but you know she is naked). Even then my daughter just thought it was funny, she wasnt concerned about it. Just like the "boobie spewing whip cream" again, did not phase my daughter. Because I didnt make a big deal about it.I have taught my daughter that just because someone says or does something doesnt mean we have to say or do it. If I see something that I feel my daughter MAY repeat, I tell her, " You know that WE dont do that even though so and so did" That's the key, our children listen to us, even when we think they aren't listening. People cause their own issues, the kids would have never had even noticed(honestly half of them DONT EVEN KNOW WHO SHE IS). Why cause drama when none is even needed. By the way I LOVED the Tinkerbell and other character comments, eg. Wonder Woman and other Priencess' or super heroes. I agree with you ladies.

AMEN TO THAT!!! I think Katy should be able to still be on Sesame Street with Elmo.

I found the video (and Katy Perry's boobage) to be completely harmless! You're right, little kids aren't the ones staring at her cleavage getting (hot and) bothered by them.

Katy Perry's no role model, but the Sesame Street video was totally G-rated.

If the video hadn't been pulled, what child that age is really going to be exposed to Katy Perry's "normal" performances?

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I wrote that bit about NOT being okay with it, and I've had a little more time to pinpoint why.

It's not the boobs themselves. I wear things that are not quite as low cut, but certainly show cleavage. Of course, when my two year old notices, he just pats them and tells me he loves my nah-nah's. Then he wants to nurse. So we are all about some boobage in our house.

It was the fact that the whole scene had this sexual side to it. And maybe that was because it was Katy Perry, I don't know. But the chasing and the part where Elmo was running around her legs - just had an ICK factor that I couldn't shake. Like if you looked up the sex offenders list for the zip code near Sesame Street, she would be right there on the top. I get that they were trying to make her childlike - as if she and Elmo were supposed to be playmates, but I don't think they succeeded. It just came off as distasteful and creepy to me.

And frankly, if we do want to keep it about her outfit - then I think the Disney Princesses should put on some clothes too. I'm an equal opportunity mama where that is concerned. It's not because I think boobies are bad - I don't. I think they rock. But dang. Could we just wait awhile for the media we share with (or in this case, produce for) our little ones to be so sexualized?

Katy Perry in a way plays a character- if she wasn't a performer would she dress that way? Is it what she did on the show or who she is that people have a problem with? I am always confused when it came to matters of the boobie.
Is she appropriate for Sesame Street?? A women who as someone said "whipped creamed her boobs??"
Well On the list of celebs that have appeared on 1234 that was linked previous:
A man who kicks his kicks by running around in his tighty whiteys- offensive yes Jack Black comedy outside the Street can be a bit raunchy.

ALL the ladies of Sex and the City GASP!!!
Ricky Gervais and Elmo outtakes were WAY FUNNY. Watch him "set his piggys free" on Seasame Street with the kids YES. Watch him rant on an HBO special with the kids HELLS NO!
Jude Law makes an appearance this year too, and let's face it his life choices have been less the stellar.
Really singling out Katy seems hypocritial and sad.
Once again the boobs get the shaft. No pun intended.

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Plus, the public is being jerked around. We're supposed to protest Old Navy because they sell a onesie that says "formula-fueled" because it discourages women from breast feeding and they do not have an equal onesie showing a baby on a breast, BUT we also cannot see the tops of women's breasts on television and we must protest Sesame Street for putting on Katy Perry. So, can we show boobage or not?

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This makes me crazy! The fact that we can tell she has cute boobs means she's not allowed on the very street that made interracial relationships okay? That has paved the way for tolerance in so many other ways? This, when Disney's Little Mermaid is told to give up her own voice in order to get the guy? Or Tinkerbell is bending over in skivvies? I had to vent, http://alyssaroyse.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/b-is-f... I thought we were past this!

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That's more clear - thank you!

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It's hard for Sesame Street to walk that line between making it engaging for parents while making it fun for kids.

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First of all, it's Katy Perry...I don't think she's appropriate for Sesame Street, even if she had dressed more conservatively. She is not an artist I would use to launch my kid's interest in adult music, Kinda like Fergie shaking her ass, last year or so, on the Today show, in front of a crowd of school-age girls and their moms. I mean, hello, ladies?!!

I know female performers love to get up on their soapboxes about how powerful it is to unleash our feminine sexuality and flaunt it all over creation, but who really benefits?...dudes! We have worked so hard for women's rights, so that we can prance around like pole dancers, in very little clothes, and looking as young as possible?

I'm all for having a rocking body and feeling strong and powerful and being a woman, but I just get tired of turning around and seeing yet another woman, talented or not, taking the easy route and using her T&A to get to where she's going.

Dude, I don't even know who half the celebrity guests are :-)

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I suppose I used the wrong word here. I really rarely use the word "naughty." It's just the first thing that came to my mind as I was typing my response.

Had Gracie not seen Katy's performance on the MTV Movie Awards, I'm not sure I'd have such a problem with it. She likes the song Hot'n'Cold and I let her listen to that - Katy's other music, not so much. But the fact that she's seen her and associates her with being inappropriate makes a difference now.

We don't spend a lot of time watching Sesame Street, but we catch clips here and there online, such as this one. While I don't feel like this specific clip, held only for itself, is inappropriate or offensive, I do believe that if my child is going to associate the person in the clip or the subject matter in the clip, in relation to something else, with something inappropriate, I'm not cool with that.

n/t

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My son has no idea who Katy Perry is. He has no idea what her other professional endeavors have been. All he saw on the screen was a lady playing with Elmo dressed a little bit like a lunatic. I could freak out and be all "OMG, BOOBIES! COVER YOUR EYES!" and scar the kid, or I could just let him sit and watch the Elmo segment he was interested in.

The outfit was not offensive to me. I DO get how some parents are offended more by Katy herself and not so much the outfit, but really? Do our kids care? It was a skit less than 5 minutes long and the kids are paying more attention to Elmo anyhow. There are LOTS of celebrity guests on Sesame Street who are completely unfamiliar to my son. Not all the celebrity guests get him squealing because, as I said before, he's more interested in the muppets.
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Natalie Portman! But she's on airplane glue: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/natal...

I believe everything I see on television.

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Sesame Street did :-) I'm waiting for the whole let's-boycott-sesame-street-because-they-picked-her-in-the-first-place movement.

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Well, Sesame Street has said from day 1 that their point was to make the show enjoyable for adults too so we'll watch it with our kids and make it interactive. And this is one of those trade-offs.

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Really, other than Snow White and her sensible skirt, who hasn't shown a little cleavage in the Disney world in the last few years?

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See - I think this just goes to show how much parental input matters. I see this as a matter of explaining to my kids the difference in contexts. So - you know, violence, is it ever okay? Well, in my book, almost never. But would I ever be found using it? Never say never.

No question - a branding a celeb seeks is something they have to live with. But we do put them in these double binds - like they're not supposed to be political - but who says so? Why not, you know?

Anyway - just saying, our kids take our lead - clearly yours took yours. Which says a lot about how much they listen to you. :) But I think this means we can also help them learn nuance and distinctions and so on. Life is far from monolithic or black and white!

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It does raise an interesting debate about whether the outside work of the person should be taken into consideration when placing them on children's programming.

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Some great links on this:

http://www.wordiq.com/definition/List_of_celebrity... ( http://www.wordiq.com/definition/List_of_celebrity... )

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=2748279... ( http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=2748279... )

And how about figure staking outfits on men re: how much is shown/revealed one way or another:

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2010-02-18/when-did-mal... ( http://www.bestweekever.tv/2010-02-18/when-did-mal... )

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True -- though could you imagine the letters Sesame Street would have received if it had been full frontal nudity :-)

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True -- and would people keep their children from watching figure skating, where the costumes are even more revealing?

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...with most of the points here. It was a little revealing, what with the jiggling and all, but I'd be surprised if she picked the outfit herself; many Disney ladies wear revealing clothes; and I think it's more that *she's* inappropriate for Sesame Street rather than her outfit offends me. Who on Earth picks Katy Perry to be on Sesame Street, anyway? lol...

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The outfit doesn't bother me. I think what might bother me more (though I admit it actually just occurred to me after pp mentioned her songs) is her image overall and what she represents. Is what she represents in pop culture something that Sesame Street wants on their show?

And if they're going down this path, I request a shirtless Ryan Reynolds duet with Elmo, like, stat-ly.

...not to mention Ariel, Jasmine and a host of other characters.

It wasn't her outfit that bothered me - it was the fact that it was Katy Perry. Period. It's the fact that she, as Maria Melee puts it, "spew(s) whipped cream from her breasts while miming invisible double-fisted blowjobs on television," that I'm not okay with.

I watched the clip while my 5 year old daughter was in the room and her response to it, her first response, was "Mom? Isn't that the lady you said I couldn't watch from that award show?"

I had been watching the MTV Movie Awards out of the corner of my eye while visiting with my mother when my daughter came in during Katy Perry's song and I had to send her out of the room.

She enjoyed the Sesame Street video, but the first thing she thinks of when she sees Katy Perry is "naughty." I'm not sure I'm okay with that on Sesame Street.

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Because I was looking at her boobs, I thought, "They're a jigglin'" but then I caught myself and decided to look at her face to see if I found her breasts/costume distracting and I must say that I did not. As a petite woman, I have believed for far too long that the larger a woman's breasts are, the more WOMAN she is, which is ridiculous nonsense, of course. Our puritanical society has turned me into a prude for far too long - breasts are flesh, two large chunks of fat that we've somehow turned into a sordid, sexual thing ONLY.

Kid's minds aren't tainted like ours are as adults, so she could have been running around topless and no one under 6 would have batted an eye.

are kids at that age even paying attention to cleavage or just watching the entertainment of it all. My 5 year old little girl watched this video with me earlier and she wasn't saying "oh look at her cleavage mommy"

True -- and who has ever complained about Batman's sleek suit that highlights his package? Or was that Superman?

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Okay guys, I'm sorry, but I just don't get the problem here.

Could the real problem be that she "kissed a girl and she liked it?"

'Cause the costume isn't any worse than Wonder Woman's!

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I have to admit that I didn't see a problem with her outfit. Not just in comparison to other outfits out there, but on its own.

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Tink does it? Why can't Katy?

It's not as if Tink isn't currently rocking her own set of cleave.

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What do you think of the fact that the costume was chosen by Sesame Street and a director watched her in it for hours without thinking anything was wrong?

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