OK, to be fair, the video of 41-year-old Mariah Carey and 17-year-old Justin Bieber performing “All I Want For Christmas Is You” is, by our current cultural standards, not all that racy.You might suggest that Carey could have accentuated her behind a little less, but let’s be fair. You could argue similarly about Vera-Ellen in some of the dance scenes from “White Christmas.”Yet there are people upset and there’s already a backlash.A nice lady who is a talking head on the ABC TV early, early morning news brought the whole thing to a point Thursday when she suggested that people are upset because the two singers are getting too chummy — sexually — towards the end of the music video that was highlighted on the boob tube this week in a Christmas special.And then the nice lady talking head went too far.No body would have a problem if the ages were reversed, she said.She actually argued that if you had a 41-year-old male singer and a 17-year-old female singer linked, that would be fine to most people.What?Really?Well, if it is it shouldn’t be.For those of you old enough to remember, picture this — and for those of you who are not, take our word for it — picture Dean Martin and Patty Davis acting like they had a “thing” going on for a TV Christmas special in the early 1960s.Patty Duke was 16 when she won her Oscar.Dean Martin was one of the stunning leading men in a time when America knew a little something about sex appeal. He would have been in his early 40s in the early ‘60s.Seriously.
All we want for Christmas is decorum