I think you're (for values of 'you' including allthelivesofme) right about it being sexist, but when I watched it, I felt like the sexist part was that a woman isn't a woman if she isn't in a short skirt. It didn't play like an assault to me, maybe because it looked more like pulling aside a curtain than ripping off someone's clothes.
The most WTF-did-I-really-just-see-that moment was that thing with Craig Ferguson, actually.
But it was two guys tearing off her clothes. If she'd stripped down herself it would've gotten a huge eyeroll from me (because of the whole "You're not really female unless you're dolled up!" message that you mentioned), but wouldn't have set off the same 'massive skeeze alert' red flags.
And yeah, that thing with Ferguson was beyond the pale. :-P
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Date: 2008-09-22 09:01 pm (UTC)The most WTF-did-I-really-just-see-that moment was that thing with Craig Ferguson, actually.
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Date: 2008-09-22 09:14 pm (UTC)And yeah, that thing with Ferguson was beyond the pale. :-P
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Date: 2008-09-22 09:24 pm (UTC)Well, one of them was William Shatner, so, skeeze alert right there. All he had to do was stand on stage to get a red flag. *g*