Lady GaGa is a shitty "ally" to the LGBTQIA community
She states in this interview that she wrote this song that so many people love that it took her only 10 minutes to write it. If you don’t feel like reading it, you can look at the screenshot below this text.
Moreover, one part of her lyrics that addresses the song that it is aimed for is only used once and goes as, “No matter gay, straight, or bi, lesbian, transgendered life”. I find a few things wrong here:
- Being that she only mentions LGBT once in this whole song.
- There shouldn’t be inclusion of straight people in a song for empowering
cis gay menpeople of the LGBT community- Transgendered is wrong and disgusting to use in reference to trans people and should not be used.
Now, reasons why she, herself is a bad ally?
- She’s bisexual, and being in a group you say you’re an ally for doesn’t even make sense, she’s more of an advocate, and a bad one at that
- One of her music videos starred a dfab trans man character and was showcasing unsafe binding techniques for impressionable/unknowing trans people
- This very song being praised by people as empowering was solely written to make money off of the gay rights movement, not entirely for the LGBTQIA community she says she supports
- Refers to gay people as “the gays”
- Uses transphobic slurs: “I look at photos of myself, and I look like such a t****y!”
- When addressing media rumors that she’s trans, she said, “I really am a lady! I’m not quite as outrageous as I look - underneath all this I am deeply moral and actually a really nice girl”. She insinuated that trans women are not really women, and that they can’t be moral or nice people.
- Uses ableist slurs: "I’m a songwriter. I’ve written loads of music. Why would I try to put out a song and think I’m getting one over on everybody? That’s r****ded.”
- More of her transphobia
[Some links provided from yourfaveisproblematic]
