Comments on: what do you have against gay people, Katy Perry?

By: easter island

easter island — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:07:41 +0000

i feel kind of silly posting this, i mean this thread’s been inactive for awhile now…but i wanted to join this discussion cause the popularity of katy perry kind of got to me too. ‘i kissed a girl’ made me feel uneasy when i heard it. i had a reaction very much like the one so well articulated by eoin above, that katy perry was just shrewdly pandering to the status quo. i mean, this candy-coated (if i may) representation of a lesbian encounter hardly makes katy perry brave. i might be wrong but it seems as though ‘a lot of hetero guys get off on girl/girl action’. you could even imagine that there’s an entire industry devoted to this assumption. so, just postulating here, katy perry would have to be ‘a f**king moron’ not to realize that. katy perry is ‘not a moron’, sex sells, cute lesbian sexuality sells in a male-dominated society; katy perry is a (insert synonym for capitalist whore).

i mean, i try to put things in perspective. how would ‘i kissed a boy’, sung by a boy, go over? idk, but i do know that katy perry wasn’t breaking her neck to find out how the public would respond to a legit gay song.

so whatevs. sorry for wasting ur time, if ur reading this. i know it’s all been said already, better than i did. and maybe i’m just cynical, and it is just a song, and katy perry is just an idiot. i guess the thing that bothers me the most is the defense of katy perry’s songs on the grounds that ’she didn’t mean anything bad by it.’ okay, lots of ppl don’t ‘mean anything bad’ when they use homophobic slurs. that’s a problem. and there’s a difference between being p.c. and just being aware of the consequences of your actions/words.

something i found amusing/suicide-inspiring: amazon.com’s review of ‘one of the boys’ called ‘ur so gay’ hilarious and ‘zeitgeist-capturing’. signed, ashamed to carry on a societal legacy of passive-agressive gay bashing.

By: J

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:18:14 +0000

For the record, Katy’s song isn’t about gay *males*. Doesn’t mean the connotations are any less hurtful, but I would agree that a thicker skin is a good thing for gays.

I’m gay, too, and I welcome a challenge; people who confront me about being gay are simply informed that I’m not bothered by it, so why are they? Is there something they want to tell me…? That throws most for a loop!

The song, though, I think is about a girl getting shitfaced and kissing another. She’s not gay, she just kissed a girl and …. well you get it.

The song “Ur So Gay” on the other hand… holy crap. Tougher skin aside, since when do adults revert to schoolyard insults? Aside from drunk adults and obvious homophobes, of course. Can we just grow the hell up and find another way to insult each other?

By: James

James — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:51:17 +0000

People really need to quit trying to be so PC and grow a thicker skin. I personally, do not think that gays have to worry about Katy putting them down, as the male homosexual community does a good job of doing that themselves.

Harsh?

Not really, I am a gay man, who happens to be a man, and is gay. It’s not my world, and most of the gay men I have met, are so busy pounding the fact that they are gay down your throat that you begin to wonder if there is anything more to this person, other than they wear their sexuality on their sleeves.

It’s funny how the gay community has somehow adopted the same attitude that racial minorities have. “I can say ‘fa**ot, gay, and queer as much as I want, but you had better not make one derogitory comment about homosexuality, or I’ll be offended!”

Fair is fair, and further, if gay men didn’t live up to the sterotype that comes to mind by a majority of the US. Then her song would definitly be an insult.

By: Bored Twelve-Year-Old

Bored Twelve-Year-Old — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:27:24 +0000

Also, songs like: Quite Fly, For A White Guy and Viva La White Girl, could be thought of as racist and a lot of songs by rappers such as the song Low (Flo Rida talks about how he prefers women with no clothes and how he likes them “all exposed”) are sexist, so why is UR so gay or I Kissed A Girl any different?

By: Bored Twelve-Year-Old

Bored Twelve-Year-Old — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:42:13 +0000

I don’t think it’s wrong to be gay and I’ve thought that since I learnt what it meant, then I heard UR So Gay in 2008 and liked it. But just because this song is homophobic doesn’t mean I changed my mind. A song isn’t that powerful and I’ll always think it’s okay to be gay and I’ll always like this song so there.

By: Nat

Nat — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:44:54 +0000

Gay has multiple definitions, one of them happens to be a common insult used by younger people, especially high schoolers(which appears to be perry’s target audience) others include happy and homosexual. Gay doesn’t have to specifically mean homosexual(obviously, genderless objects or concepts are often described in a derogatory manner as gay). In fact, the only word that does have to is homosexual.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:32:01 +0000

Another correct definition of gay is happy, silly.

By: Argentinian teenager

Argentinian teenager — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:08:09 +0000

Oh! Another thing!
I want to thank God for letting a gay person have such a big inteligence as your’s, because I would be lost if I had to answer all of the comments of these ignorant people!!! And I understand why you HAVE to be so patient about this issue with the ignorant people and you’re not searching for their adresses to go to their houses and fucking kill them for being so freakin’ dumb! Just kidding…
WE have to be patient and tolerant, because mentality is not going to change from one day to another, but I honestly think that we have to do something BIG, like something massive, to show the world that we are not all the same people… Every person in the world is UNIQUE.

By: Argentinian teenager

Argentinian teenager — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:21:32 +0000

Well, first of all I want to tell you that I’m an argentinian, so excuse me if I don’t speak with the proper english or using the right terms…
Right now I want to thank you, because being gay in my country involves to be a victim of a lot of jokes and hate from all of your partners at school. And I’m not out of the closet yet, so I’m really proud that there’s someone out there who thinks exactly the same as I do!
I’m going to be honest with you. I loved Katy Perry, and I was actually listening to her songs… until I found your post. I didn’t really know though that she had a song called “you’re so gay” beacuse it’s not a single here, so I searched for the lyrics of that song, and when I started to read it, tears just started to fall from my eyes. It’s sad, beacuse I’m young yet, and I don’t know how to handle such an offense like that…
Thank you so much for the post.
I would like if you sent me an e-mail.

By: Mel

Mel — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:21:29 +0000

One can only assume that if Katy Perry thinks reading Hemingway is ‘gay’, then she has never read any Hemingway. Or maybe it’s just reading on the whole that is gay. If so, where might I sign up?