Adam Levine's shirtless Super Bowl halftime performance sparks double standard debate

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15 years after Janet Jackson's performance, Adam Levine's shirtless halftime show sparks debate over double standard.

 

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Janet can take it off, millions of men would be happy. Answer this, What do men-women wear on the beach?

Guys go shirtless at pools, beaches, gyms, etc. In our society comparing a guy and a girl shirtless in public is apples and oranges.

HAVE to admit Adam Levine is so hot! Why do you think all the crowd is clapping!!

Wow, really? Since when is it controversial that a man can go shirtless and a woman can't? notnew

No double standard here. I have no problem with either Adam or Janet taking off their tops during the halftime show.

7NY What is this world coming to!? Every time I look at Twitter it gets more ridiculous than the last time

Grow up!

It should spark debate.

Why Adam? Why not Anthony Kiedis and Flea in 2014? Oh that’s right cause it ain’t a controversy.

So what, guy should have to wear t-shirts or bikini tops at the beach. Piss of with the double standard crap. Grow up you losers.

Well people don’t get hard when men have no shirt on

no debate on Adam since he did not turn the half time into a political show. The rapers where horrible. Glady's Knight was beautiful singing then people turned the super bowl off they had there worst ratings in history. Disrespecting the flag and military does this

7NY Enough already!

My question is why does AdamLevine look like the poster boy for MS13?

This is a joke, right!

7NY Dude put your shirt on and stop trying so hard. You not that attractive

Gladys Knight was far far better than Levine. She should have done the half time show . .

Yah.

Free the nipple

By the time he was shirt less nobody was watching or caring

Best Super Bowl Show Ever

It sucked!

Liberals are upset that Matoon 5 did not protest but performed as professionals. They were great!

Really? I kind of get it, but, it’s a societal norm...🤨like it or not, it’s indecent for women, but ok for men to show nipples. Non issue. And how many would complain about it being ok for women? Make up your mind.🤪

Bad taste.

Who cares. He sucked big time. He’s no Janet Jackson.

there was no need for him to take it off

women topless at a swimming pool would be outrageous and men would not be noticed. Can’t we embrace the differences instead of looking for more reasons to complain!! This is dumb. Slow news day I guess!

Nobody cares but the media loves stirring the pot.

Hahahahahaha .

Nobody cares ffs it’s only a body ffs

It's only a double standard if you prefer women walking around with no shirts on what you probably do because you're a freak

This is a decades old social norm that boys go shirtless while the girl wears a top. Ok? Next? Are u mad cuz of social norm or should we start bearing breasts tomorrow? What a dumb article.

Let janet go shirtless!!

Does not matter what you do someone some where will criticize Its pretty sad

Tacky

I’m just upset they teased us making us think they were about to preform sweet victory :(

As a viewer, Janet Jackson breast could not even save that halftime show.

Oh for Christs sake! The world is losing its mind! The male chest is not ...nor has it ever been.. sexualized like a female chest. As for double standards...there are lots...both ways! smh

In my opinion if someone has the body for it and they’re proud of it then go for it, just be aware of the persons surroundings. The other thing is the super bowl is geared to the 21 and over crowd therefore topless isn’t that bad

So I guess we should stop having shirtless guys in movies and tv shows now

Dang that was 15 years ago. Now we have a pres who likes to grab em by the p.

Why an uproar? Men go to the beach topless, wash their cars in their driveways topless, take out the trash topless and no one ever makes a big deal out of it. Now if he had taken off his pants, would have been an issue! People just look for something to complain about!

he has so much tattoos like a prisoner

I can't believe people are this stupid.

Okay..... why the no shirt in the 1st place Seemed weird

Adam ripped his shirt off. Timberlake ripped Janet's bra off. That's a big difference as far as I'm concerned.

OFFS They want to change society - not half time shows. Have they ever been to a public pool?

The double standard should be the question why men can show their nipples in public and noone cares but if a woman shows them everybody is losing their minds

Who had the spark? Put that out.

7NY 😴

If that’s a double standard then so is our laws...

As a woman he went to his last resort to entertain. The Superbowl this year was based solely on the ad's.

America has been and always will be a Nation of double standards, that comes without question.

Give me a freaking break.

No it hasn’t. No one is debating this except for media outlets trying to create controversy. The same reason that Adam can take off his shirt on stage is the same reason he can at any pool or beach or public area in all of America. Stop being stupid.

Who is Adam Levine? Not kidding. Who is he?

I loved every second of his performance. Why do people need to be so negative? Nothing else to do

I guess Janet didn’t have as much to show, anyway, I was able to find the remote and watch the Kitten Bowl whole the BullS&$ was on.

Honestly the question should be why is a man shirtless at a football game. Not sure if they have ever heard of a target audience

They’re only trying to stir up controversy about him because they didn’t bow down to the left and take a knee. Enough with the drama people.

Shirtless men have always been accepted over shirtless women as the norm. Now, women want to go shirtless? I'm all in!

You guys have gone wacko

7NY This is the stupidest argument I’ve heard all day. Really ABC? Does there have to be an uproar over everything these dats. Your just jealous because you didn’t get to air the Super Bowl and make a ton of money off the advertisers.

I'm sure the biggest advocates for shirtless women are men. Guys, it's called a strip club.

Oh no

7NY adamlevine JanetJackson : It is a double standard. He also showed DOUBLE the amount of nipple(s).

Past his best and resorted to shirtless performance so people would talk about him! Shame his performance was rubbish!

He was cover... in tattoos...

There's no debate. Other than how it was a snooze fest instead.

Maybe women should start attacking men who go around without shirts. Semi naked in public? Isn’t that just asking for it? 🤷🏻‍♀️

If women want to take off shirts I’m all for it

Listen, men go walking around on television, in public , everywhere without shirts on, this is no different.

He really was not that great to look at!

Of course it does.

Why do people make a big deal out of nothing? Why do people pretend that female breast & male chest are the same? outrageculture is weakness.

This was a terrible half time show🙄

Please, let's not go there. We have enough people boycotting the Superbowl without making an issue out of this.

Guess you have never been to a pool or a beach? Come on you are just as bad as CNN.... 😴

I agree, if he can show his breast why not women.

Ridiculous comparison

We all completely agree. Woman should be able to be topless anytime they want.

Dumb argument. He does not have boobs that men are salivating over.

For the record, I was 100% onboard with Janet Jackson's nipple.

Bring back Janet in 2020!

Bring back marching bands, I changed channels till the game was back on

Stop it.

It was just a bad show in general.

😂😂😂

Really...we have fallen that far....OK, Next year invite Janet Jackson back and she can go topless. Show will be PRICELESS :)

No it isn't. Show boobs. We're all in agreement

Contrary to popular belief, boys and girls have different upper bodies. So it’s a little different when a man takes off shirt and a women takes off a shirt on live tv.

I think Adam decided to go shirtless when he realized that his performance sucked

Women's breasts and nipples are sexual (mating signals for men). Men's little kitten nipples are not.

Men go shirtless all the time. Women don't for obvious reasons.

free the nip.

I’ll take Janet any day

Uh he's a guy... women dont walk around topless and guys do.

Just the usual far left outrage mob looking for anything to moan about, it is clearly nothing the same.

Hey, they wanna have their titties out then go for it nobody will complain

freethenip

lmao at every level - let's give Janet some credit- at least her halftime show was good.

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