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You know, despite the bizarre nature of her fame I kind of like lady Gaga. It takes a little bit of courage to be that ridiculous and honestly she goes about it with a little more style than her predecessors like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. Despite the fact that her lyrics are all about getting drunk, her music is a little better too.
Which is why I was so disappointed by her weird meat dress. She wore it to an awards show claiming it was a statement that “I am not a piece of meat”. Here are two reasons this is stupid.
1) This is offensive to animals rights activists for obvious reasons. To me, the stunt screams of neediness for attention. Honestly, what is easier than offending PETA? Wearing a meat dress is neither original (it has definitely been done before), or particularly shocking. It shows up in all the news stories and hell I’m blogging about it though.
2) It is ironic to make a statement against the objectification of women after making an entire career out of being objectified. Lady Gaga, despite her attempt to join the feminist camp, is the latest product of a machine that generates terrible role models for girls and molds their self-views around the ways they are perceived by men. Saying “I am not a piece of meat” does not change the fact that she has glorified BEING a piece of meat for years with lyrics and imagery.
Lady Gaga’s meat dress sucks because it lacks any artistic meaning and is clearly a poorly masked publicity stunt.
It also looks icky.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/style/gagas-meat-dress-brilliant-disgusting-or-both/article1708273/
