Comments on: Hooray For Rape Victims

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 01:02:16 +0000

The Candidate’s Penises could all gather round on stage and embrace and sing and hashtag each other. Then we’d all feel nice and victimmy. Starting with the Donald. I like it when Gags sings Julie Andrews tunes.

By: carmen

carmen — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 07:26:34 +0000

“Where are the eating-disorder people, the clitorectomy survivors, the child soldiers of Africa, the middle school sexting suicides? What about the unemployed Veteran amputees? Will they all get their turns for a standing ovation at the Academy awards?”

I lol’d hard at that one. I DOOOO like Gaga, I think she is at LEAST trying, but lord, isn’t it a bit ironic that all this palaver is playing out at the OSCARS (or whatever it was) which is a bastion of backslapping and full-of-shit-edness? Oy!! GAD!

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

By: Suspended

Suspended — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 16:54:37 +0000

I’ve not watched it and I won’t. Gaga’s conveyor belt proclamations have always seemed insincere to me, like everyone else’s cause would further hers, as if to give her deluded “artist” moniker more credence and her music more credibility.

She makes me cringe.

What next? A drugstore fragrance called “Rape” by Lady Gaga. Then we can put a smell to the unity and victimhood and not feel so helpless in the face of misfortune, and all for $15.

Someone show this attention greedy, narcissistic bitch and her peers, the door!

By: Bevitron

Bevitron — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 01:14:56 +0000

Rape packaged up with the fear and violence and degradation painted & prime-timed over. Because, you know, it’s just too damn scary…so let’s make it a show. A reality show! That’s the ticket. Let’s all feel super-deeply and move on quickly.

Your husband got it perfect.

By: Dj

Dj — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 00:32:01 +0000

I recoiled, registered disgust, cringed and barged. Would everyone please just stop!! Victims, survivors, etc, such self serving babble. I really had no interest in those people on stage. College was full of sexual situations…bad mostly! Lady gaga looked like she was going to have a stroke! Instead of feeling empathy I feel manipulated into feeling like I should have deep respect and feeling for these people. Shut up already….get on with it…Sheeesh…

By: MCatherine

MCatherine — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 14:55:44 +0000

I knew something deeply bothered me about the the song (I couldn’t find merit in the song… not any of the songs nominated) and the ‘trauma staging’. Thank your husband for the clarification. I feel better now.

By: David Duff

David Duff — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 08:20:55 +0000

Well said, Ma’am.

By: ali

ali — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 05:02:46 +0000

Dance in the dark is about women dancing their pain away. It is not explicitly or implicitly about rape. but it helped me through a very dark time 🙂

By: ali

ali — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 05:00:13 +0000

good art vs bad art. yes. Also, a powerful song about being proud of your personal and cultural heritage is different than a (trying to be) powerful song about someone who has undergone awfulness that has nothing to do with them (for the most part) … being a rape survivor really doesn’t say anything about who you are or where you come from. just means trauma, as you say.

on the other hand, it is vindicating to see people actively giving a shit about it.

I am not a fan of the gaga song featured by the oscars, but I LOVE “Dance in the dark” (an older gaga song)