The video, now a legitimate Internet phenomenon, features one Lauren Bernat, an advertising executive in Florida, exercising–or gyrating rather suggestively is more like it–while using Nintendo’s Wii Fit.
Another Lauren Bernat, a master’s degree candidate for library science at St. John’s University, is not amused. Actually, “utterly freaked out” is probably the most accurate way to describe it.
The Importance of Authority Control
There is a reason I sign things with my first, middle, and last names. This story shows it!
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Stephen Michael Kellat, Host, LISTen
Whoaa….
I’ll have to watch that at home. I’ll have to watch it several times.
Information Literacy
All kinds of employers Google people when they apply for jobs. Dangerous practice if you can not verify that you have the correct person. You think “Joe Smith” has some weird proclivities but what if you don’t have the real “Joe Smith”.
Raises the question: Should you Google a candidate for a job at all? What is the professional thing to do?
Also points out that if you are “Joe Smith” with the weird proclivities you want want to consider what you post about yourself. It is going to be interesting when todays teens that are doing what youth do, do not have the luxury we had of the past being the past.
Gyrating rather suggestively? Hula hooping?
I must be even older than I thought. I seem to remember young women Hula Hooping in bikinis, involving pretty much the same activity–except, of course, that the woman in the video is much more fully clothed and the Hula Hoop is virtual.
Ah, but then I remember Tom Lehrer’s classic line: “When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.”
It is a marketing ploy
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2110445/Wii-Fit-underwear-girl-A-marketing-hoax.html