NOTE: I am not a feminist. For the most part, I don’t like women because they’re catty and much more evil than men most of the time. Most of my friends are male for that reason. So, when reading this entry, keep this in mind. I don’t subscribe to Miss magazine or burn my bras. I just have certain opinions that sometimes makes me sound like a feminist. Got it?
This entire entry will be about a subject that has bothered me for a while. I was mainly inspired to write this entry because of Lady Gaga. A singer that, until recently, I wanted nothing to do with. Not because I disliked her music or anything, but simply because I assumed she was going to be just like all the other irritating new acts that have been popping lately. How stupid was I. I listened to every song she’s put out, and I love every damn one.
Here’s my beef: it’s not with her, it’s with the public. The same shit happened with Madonna, and now it’s happening again with Lady Gaga. I’ve read a shitload of comments all over the net that are wrong and incredibly closed-minded, and I’d like to express my opinion on some of them:
1) She’s a slut. She has a new guy in every video. She’s always singing about sex.
The typical bullshit every woman with a healthy sexual appetite has to deal with. A male singer/rapper can have a different bitch in skanky clothes (or an army of bitches in skanky clothes) in every single one of his videos while he’s singing/rapping about going skeetskeetskeet on her face, and he’s considered a player. A player, of course, is a good thing to most men, and to some fucked-in-the-head women, too. But if a woman has a different guy in every video and sings somewhat covertly about sex, she’s branded a slut. I CALL BULLSHIT. It’s stupid, typical, and unfortunately, going to continue happening. Women can’t talk about sex because then they’re walking VD factories.
The people who say this stupid shit are the same ones who have only heard her songs on the radio or on TV. I’ve listened to all her songs, and no, not all of them talk about sex. It just so happens that the ones she’s put out so far are the ones that talk about sex! And why not? That doesn’t make her a slut, it makes her a smart business woman. She knows what’s going to sell. Kudos for her.
2) She talks about having money and being rich all the time. She’s a gold digger.
So do 90% of the popular rappers that are out right now. Big deal. Once again, the double standard rears it’s ugly head right out of the ass it escaped from. A man can talk about his 40-inch rims, his mansion, his bling, his gold grill, and his diamond-studded dick, but a woman can’t talk about wanting the finer things in life. Hey guys, even women dream about having enough money to live the good life. It doesn’t make them gold diggers. And if you’re stupid enough to get involved with a gold digger, tough shit. The same goes for the ladies, btw.
3) Young kids will be influence by her music.
Hey, jackasses, THIS MUSIC IS NOT FOR KIDS. If there’s a song or two from her album that is acceptable for young ears, then fine. But if there are songs (and there are) where the content is obviously not meant for virgin ears, DON’T PLAY IT FOR THEM. Simple. Yes, I know you can’t babysit your kids 100% of the time. However, parents who actually bother to raise their kids and teach them about life won’t have to worry about their kids being easily influenced by some random chick with record sales. I say this as someone who was born with music. I was listening to bands like Danzig and Nine Inch Nails when I was 13. I didn’t think about suicide or turn into a devil-worshipper, because I had a secure sense of reality. Kids today have no sense of reality. They pay more attention to the words of wisdom on a bumper sticker or a t-shirt than the things their parents say. Why? Because their parents are yuppy, whiny, anal pushovers who think that talking about sex with their kids is going to corrupt them. Hey, think of it this way. If you don’t teach them, SOMEONE ELSE WILL.
4) She’s a hermaphrodite/man/had a sex change/whatever…
Dumb rumors. She’s female. Get over it. Stop believing everything you hear, you fucking sheep.
To sum all this up:
Women who talk/sing about sex, money and naughty things in entertainment do not necessarily have to be sluts, gold diggers, or bad role models. Maybe some are, but that doesn’t mean they automatically are. Maybe, JUST MAYBE, they’re just like some men who enjoy sex, money, and naughty things enough to sing or talk about it in public! Fancy that!
Fin.
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Entertainment, lady gaga. music, money, sex
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