Who knew a measly ten-minute video could cause such a stir, especially in a post-Madonna world. Faux News isn't the only station looking to gain attention to their retarded channel by piggybacking off of the back of others. Some in the transgender community are pissed at Gaga over a line in the prison scene of the video they feel is transphobic:
"It seems with her latest video she’s continuing this gender essentialism, slipping in a 'no dick = not a tranny' joke at about a minute in, before the song even begins to play. The scene is set in a prison, and after being dragged to her cell and stripped by two women who appear to be trans Lady Gaga climbs up against the bars in a shot clearly designed to dispel any rumours. At that point one of the trans women guards says to the other 'I told you she didn’t have a dick,' and they walk away...That she’s using trans women and drag queens to exoticize her videos doesn’t defer from the cissupremacist stance that women = vagina, and trans women are therefore not real women. Her anxiety at being seen as trans is clear, and her response is typical of cis privilege and trans marginalization: We’re supposed to wipe our brows and sigh relief that she’s actually a real woman. This is transmisogyny."
As I have stated countless times in this blog, I live for the tranny's. No one is a bigger supporter of equal rights for transgendered people than myself. I feel they are overreacting. The 'I told you she didn’t have a dick' line was her showing she had a sense of humor regarding the rumors that she was intersexed. I don't think there was any intention of her being discriminative. People in this country really need to lighten up.
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