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I don't particularly like corporate whores. I have a bigger problem with corporate whores that haven't the faintest idea what they are doing. Katy Perry obviously thinks that she's writing funny and ironic "feminist" lyrics that are going to make her a millionaire. What she's really doing is destroying feminism--in fact, destroying females.
For example...
"Us girls we are so magical
Soft skin red lips so kissable
Hard to resist so touchable"
-I Kissed A Girl
How many times in your life do you actually come across a girl that is so radiantly beautiful and gorgeous-looking that she's totally irresistible? Not many. However, on TELEVISION and in MAGAZINES, it's a different matter. Skincare, make-up and perfume ads are full of impossibly beautiful women. They are not real, but that's how women are being portrayed to the mainstream. This makes women feel inadequate and generally awful about their appearance, and makes them buy more products in order to feel better about themselves and feel more desirable--therefore, they continue to be oppressed, even without being able to put their finger on exactly how. Katy Perry's song is just another addition to the entire vicious circle and the fact that she thinks she's so feminist and smart when she doesn't know what the fuck she is doing and how she is affecting the media with her posing and preening in her music videos, just aggravates me no end.
Actually, she'll probably be making hardly any money. She must be purely in it for the "art".
Holy shit.
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