The J-Lo and Shakira halftime show sidelined women

Published February 3, 2020 2:59pm ET



During this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, Shakira and Jennifer Lopez took the stage for a performance that was supposed to be about celebrating their Latino heritage and empowering women. That’s all fine, but the show was still completely inappropriate for children and the Super Bowl.

When J-Lo shimmies down a stripper pole in Hustlers, she’s doing so in an R-rated film. In theory, no one under age 17 sees it. That isn’t so when she does it at the Super Bowl.

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