A row over decency has erupted in America - over Lady GaGa's latest music video.
According to Fox News, Culture Campaign President Sandy Rios and
anchor Megyn Kelly express their outrage over the recently-released
Telephone video.
Gaga's music video - which also features Beyonce - contains a lesbian storyline in a women's prison.
Rios told the station via a live video-link: "And then we've got
Beyonce and Gaga - gay, lesbian lovers? It's disgusting Megyn...This is
just poison for the minds for our kids, and for our minds for that
matter."
But it's not just right-wingers who are annoyed. Members of the
transgender community are displeased at Gaga too: "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."