Well, Out, you’ve gone and pulled another “WTF” moment on us with your recent choice of Katy “UR So Gay” Perry as MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR!!!!?!?!?!??! Regular readers know that I was been pissed at them before for outing celebrities (one of which has come out on her own since), so I guess that I should just expect stupid shit from one of the only gay magazines that we have in wide circulation. Seriously Out, what is going on with your writers and staff that has them so in the dark? Do you not realize that Katy Perry is perpetuating (without apology!!!) a negative gay stereotype; one that I am sure many of you had to overcome and deal with as kids in school? I just don’t get blatant stupidity like this. I have made my opinion about Perry known before on this blog, and it is still getting attention (thanks to links on wikipedia… wtf!?). I can only wonder where things will go now that I am calling spades again on Ms. Perry?!
After seeing the cover and reading the awesome post over at Dorothy Surrenders, I had to go and see what saving grace Out was sure to have in it’s interview with Perry; surely, they would confront her, right? Well, they didn’t (figures), but out of everything I read in the interview with Perry, and this was a gem for me:
Some of the opinions are just from people who are unhappy in their lives, or critics that wanted to be musicians but never fucking made it. We all know that. Unless there’s an amazing, legitimate journalist I respect, I don’t really take any of that shit to heart.
REALLY Katy? So you know what it is like to be a gay youth who gets called “gay” and “faggot” every day at school, and how that fucking hate and verbal abuse leads many gay youth to commit suicide? You know all about that, and we are all just bitter bitches, right Katy? Fuck you. FUCK YOU and your self righteous “I’m an artist so I don’t have to be socially responsible, and I don’t have to apologize for what I say” bullshit. You don’t deserve your 15 minutes more than anyone else, and I for one will be glad when the light dims over your pathetic career.
Shame on you, Katy, and shame on Out magazine for picking some dumb bitch like you as their freaking musician of the year (because clearly, there are NO LGBT artists out there worthy, right?). This is just one more reason that I will NEVER have a subscription to that piece of fluff “all about the abs, and all for show” Out Magazine. Clearly, they have their heads so far up their own asses that they are willing to just hop in bed with the same fuckers that picked on them on the playgrounds; all while laughing off the harassment that was slung at them.
I just want to say that I personally feel sorry for anyone that has to endure the bullshit that people throw at them in the form of verbal abuse; especially when it uses a word that describes them as a synonym for bad. I went through HELL in school, and I wouldn’t wish that one anyone, not even Katy Perry. Katy Perry perpetuates that very same hateful mentality in her song UR So Gay (I even gave her a lenient benefit of the doubt for I Kissed A Girl), and after hearing that she doesn’t give a fuck about what she is saying, I want that bitch to know that people like me aren’t just unhappy with our lives, or just “didn’t make it” like “she did”; we went through a fucking LOT to get where we are, and we don’t need more bullies out there being told that it’s okay to make fun of the gay kid, because hey, it’s funny anyway, right? Fuck you Katy Perry, and fuck you Out Magazine. It’s more than annoying when our own community turns a blind eye to those that will make fun of us to our faces, and then say it’s no big deal when confronted with the accusation; especially in a time that we are fighting for our rights. Way to accept second class citizenship guys… seriously. Ugh.
Sorry but I still like her. I think some people take her a little too seriously. The song is very tongue and cheek and I don’t think she meant to offend anyone with it. Maybe she should be the artist of the year at Jiingo
I didn’t catch the negative gay stereotype she’s perpetuating. What is it?
Seriously, Dave? She is equating being gay to something being wrong with you. In the song, she is calling her boyfriend gay, and using that description in order to make fun of him. It’s the same as using gay as a synonym for bad; of which it is not. It is further perpetuating the idea that it’s okay to throw those sorts of insults around and it doesn’t matter, when it does, especially when you ARE gay.
I don’t take it that way. She’s describing someone who wears certain clothes, eats certain foods, listens to certain music, etc… none of which are insulting. In fact, most (not all) of those attributes would be considered good by many standards. The fact she considers those attributes likened to being gay could be considered complimentary.
Dave, no offense, but you don’t take it that way because you aren’t gay; it isn’t hurtful to you. There is nothing complimentary about making fun of someone for being gay, or making fun of someone by calling them gay. I think you are missing the point. She is making it out to be that being gay is somehow wrong, bad, undesirable, etc., which is the problem I have with it.
Oh… another one of those I can’t possibly understand because I’m a white straight male … my bad. I’ll resume not reading your blog again since its content so over my head.
Katy Perry is a no talent hack who has convinced herself and her handlers that the world really needs a Toni Basil for the 21st Century. Wait. Scratch that. Basil had and still has a successful real career as a choreographer. To put it another way, Katy Perry is to American pop music what T-Pain is to hip-hop. Both of them are everywhere you look, and neither one would have a career without Autotune.
Sam Sparro, on the other hand, is pretty damn talented. It is probably way too early to elevate the fellow to Best of the Year, but he’s got potential.
Damn Dave, I try to explain why you don’t see my perspective, and you get all defensive. Suit yourself.
Thomas, at least picking him would be picking someone from our community, you know? I mean, it is the LGBT people of the year list!
I almost swallowed my teeth when I saw that cover. Seriously?
I’m not getting defensive. I stated my opinion and you blew it off as if nothing citing the same old “you can’t understand line.”
Dave, I can’t possibly understand how hurtful it is to be called the N word, or the C word, but I understand why a black person or a woman would find offense in it being thrown around like it’s no big deal; even if I don’t feel the offense myself. You stated that you couldn’t see my perspective, and I just commented on that response. You see it one way, while I see it the other. I see it as defaming, because I’m gay, and you don’t, because your not; I stated that you didn’t take it that way because you are straight, which is again, probably why you didn’t get my perspective, because, again, you are the one that said that you didn’t get my perspective in the first place.
Also, I didn’t blow off your perspective as nothing; many, many people share that perspective, and changing that perspective is why I have such a problem with this song, and people like Katy Perry. They just make it more people think that it’s okay to make fun of gay people, and to use stereotypes to hurt others.
You’re right. I don’t know how saying someone wearing an H&M scarf is negative… how not eating meat is offensive… how listening to indie rock is wrong.
Dave, it isn’t about the stereotypes, it’s what she is representing in the song. In calling her boyfriend gay, she is insulting him. She is equating being gay with something being wrong with him in a way that utilizes stereotypes that are sometimes equated with gay people. It is defamatory, and again, you don’t have to see it that way, but that is the way that it is, and I am sure that other gay people see it that way as well.
Also Dave, her lackadaisical attitude about how people are “unhappy with themselves” if they find offense in her hate speech is what sends me over the edge.
Or, she’s saying the guy she likes has the traits of someone who is gay. Had she said he wore pink thongs and marched in parades screaming woohoo at every guy passing by … then yeah, I could see how that could be perceived as defamatory. But she’s saying the guy is fashionable, cultured, and what have ya … nothing really negative there.
yeah… unhappy with yourself… that doesn’t describe you at all.
Dave, the problem is that she doesn’t stop there. She doesn’t just describe him as being fashionable, and then throws a big thumbs up to the fact that he’s a swell guy. She goes on and on calling him gay, for the purpose of making fun of him, and in her own words, “to get back at him for hurting her”. Again, that is defamatory, and wrong.
And I don’t know if you meant that last comment as sarcasm, but I am not unhappy with myself.
Maybe she meant gay as in happy?
Enough. Really, now.
If I say that someone is acting like an “idiot,” and if I say such with a negative connotation, then one can infer from my speech that I have a rather low opinion of what? That’s right. Idiots.
If I say that someone has the patience of a “saint,” and if I say such with a positive (not ironic) connotation, then one can infer from my speech that I have a rather high opinion of what? Amen. Saint.
Ergo, Katy Perry’s song is expressing a songwriter’s (and by association, Ms Perry’s) notion that they’ve a low opinion of what group of people?
I’d nail her
It must have upset enough people that they had a lot of copies left over. They sent me 2 this month.