So, they are at it again.
Keeping us forever safe from the crack, the hole, the staff, any secretion or even an errant wisp of hair, the powers-that-be on Instagram have deemed the drop of milk dripping from the nipple on the poster of Pedro Almodóvar’s new film Madres Paralelas (Parallel Mothers) too shocking for the public.
The poster artist though Javier Jaén, took to Instagram once again to sneak another viewing of the image. As he wrote in Spanish with the post of the poster: “As expected @instagram has removed the poster we made for Almodóvar’s latest film #madresparalelas. I will post it again. Thank you for sharing it.”
Sony Pictures Classics’ website printed this as the beginning synopsis of the film: “Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident.” Instagram seeming needs to ignore the obvious and very real consequence of childbirth…lactation.
Set off by the Janet Jackson Superbowl halftime nipple-gate controversy of 2004, I have often considered just what it is culture watchdogs find so offensive when an ass crack or nipple is shown (on the T.V. show Botched, they are forever blurring ass crack and nipple, although you can clearly see both through the blur. If one measures by just the sheer amount of skin exposed, then we all see so much tit and booty in modern-day video already (and Cardi B or Megan Thee Stallion don’t have a monopoly on this, we have seen lots of skin for a lot of years). Those areas denied our spying (where nipple lie or ass crack cuts) is such a small fraction of the great expanse of soft pink areas we do get to enjoy.
What I have always felt it comes down to is that nipple, ass crack, public hair, certainly an erect penis or engorged wet vagina, hint at function. Nipples lactate. A penis and, God forbid, an angry hard one, ejaculate. That hole in that ass crack is the exit for any number of nasty human functions…and on and on. And while we claim to love the human form, God’s temple, and all that, the last thing we ever want to consider is our bodys’ more smelly, juicy, and often loud doings.
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