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

By: irrelevant

irrelevant — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 07:06:39 +0000

As a gay teen, a girl, if it may be relevant, i am already quite literally tortured by stereotypes and naivety, and it is most certainly not a comfort to come home, turn the radio up for some music relief and hear ‘kissed a girl, its not what good girls do’. In doing further research of the artist I came across a song ‘Ur so gay.’ I dont feel that there is a need to elaborate beyond the title. Music for many people is means of expression, both in what they listen to and what they create. We all accept that. What I refuse to respect is the way in which Ms. Perry’s expression affects teens all around the world in negative ways. Now I know that we get these sentiments, homophobic sentiments, that is, from all kinds of places, but all that I can ask is that we do not receive them from the musical industries. I cannot help the fact that all over, people are preaching homophobia. Both in homes and religious places. In school, I have been shoved aside and declared a fag. Now that may hurt. In fact it does. It hurts quite a lot. Tears my heart in half. Truth is, I have only to half’s of my heart. But what hurts more, what tears my heart to pieces, is that because of just a few songs, Ms. Perry has preached homophobia to every one of her followers and fans, and she does have quite a lot. What hurts is that the media is now projecting and promoting homophobic ideas. I can only imagine how many kids there are like me who have been impacted. Honestly? I don’t give a damn if she is homophobic, all I care is that she stops promoting homophobic messages.

By: Casey

Casey — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:17:57 +0000

Wow. I wonder how you feel now about Katy. I honestly don’t think she is homophobic in any way. It’s hard to break off from your childhood and rebuild your way of thinking, which is obviously what she did. She fully supported the Gay Rights in California, and now in New York. Her song “Firework” has two gay guys kissing in the video for it, while she’s singing about how everyone is a Firework, no matter what they are. She has never promoted anti-gay acts or spoke of it. About “Ur So Gay” she wasn’t using it as slang for homosexuality, she was using it in the way everyone does, when someone is stupid and you don’t like them. She wasn’t actually calling the guy a homosexual in the song. It was made for fun, the same as “I Kissed A Girl”. I think we all need to realize that Katy is her own person, and she believes what she believes, it doesn’t really concern us.

By: JM

JM — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:23:18 +0000

Lia, you are a dumbass. For someone to *literally* act gay, they must do something sexual to, or with, a person of the same sex. The boyfriend in Perry’s song was acting stereotypically gay; most homosexuals do not act like that. I do not wear H&M scarves, listen to Mozart, or read Hemmingway; I am not so skinny I should really supersize the deal, and I am not secretly amused with anything (more pissed off, usually!). If Katy is all for gay rights as she says, why does she call straight people gay for having a personality that she simply doesn’t like? It implies that gays have those traits, and she doesn’t like those traits; therefore she doesn’t like gays…

By: Lia

Lia — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:10:46 +0000

I’m just saying, she isn’t against gay people, she has stated that she is for gay rights many times. She has also said that that song is based off a real person and how he acted, i.e. gay. It is meant in a somewhat negative way I guess but it is also saying that he acted literally, gay.

By: duane

duane — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:25:29 +0000

Vaglvr: You are a vile piece of shit. I’m sure you’ll rot in hell with all of the other vile bigots like yourself. Thanks for stopping by and sharing your hatred!

By: Vaglvr

Vaglvr — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 06:53:12 +0000

Gayness is a disease. A form of mental retardation. The world needs to be rid of it. Gays should be hated and not tolerated.

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?