The Daily Mail got a bit hot under the collar today as Jorgie Porter (who?) performed her dancing on ice routine in a ‘racy PVC leather outfit’. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2093592/Dancing-On-Ice-Jorgie-Porter-performs-racy-PVC-leather-outfit.html But the DM didn’t mention that her partner, a buff metrosexy man, also performed in a ‘racy PVC leather outfit’ and maybe even looked better than she [...]
Posts Tagged ‘lady Gaga’
Metrosexy PVC On Ice
Posted: January 30, 2012 in Lady Gaga, Masculinities, metrosexuality, MetrosexyTags: dancing on ice, Johnny Weir, Jorgie Porter, lady Gaga, metrosexuality, Metrosexy, PVC
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Sex, Lies and Neuroscience: The Gaga Effect
Posted: March 24, 2011 in Identity, Lady Gaga, Masculinities, UncategorizedTags: Freud, Homosexuality, lady Gaga, Mark Simpson, Michael Bailey, neuroscience, Sexuality
I found out that Gaga’s latest album and single were to be called ‘Born This Way’ towards the end of last year. My heart sank. I knew it was going to become, if not a popular gay anthem, at least a symbol of the worst kind of essentialist thinking around sexuality. Unfortunately my fears have [...]
Born This Gay?
Posted: February 14, 2011 in IdentityTags: Born This Way, Gay Culture, lady Gaga, Mark Simpson
A few days is a long time in pop music. Since Lady Gaga released her much-anticipated single, the eponymous track of her forthcoming album, the critics have been quick to help us decide how to interpret it. Sometimes a pop song is just a pop song-but not when it is by someone as famous and [...]
Feminism Goes Gaga Again-Or Does Quiet Riot Girl?
Posted: September 17, 2010 in Feminism, UncategorizedTags: feminism, lady Gaga
Is Lady Gaga A Feminist Icon? screeches Kira Cochrane* in The Guardian (sorry but I imagine she is a screecher). http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/17/lady-gaga-feminist-icon I sincerely hope not. Feminism does not deserve such an exciting and imaginative diva to represent her dowdy and puritanical aims and objectives. Especially when Ms Cochrane* splutters and stumbles her way through an [...]
