"if it had been a female pop performer doing (his) moves that were on the stage, I don't think there would be nearly as much of an outrage. I think it's because I'm a gay male."Offered a chance to apologize, he declined. He said he didn't consider that there may have been children watching because his American Music Awards performance came at nearly 11 p.m., and that it's a parent's job to monitor what their children are watching on TV.
"I'm not a baby sitter," he said. "I'm a performer."
"I guess I have a tendency to divide people," he added. "Apples and oranges - you either like it or you don't."
Intellectual Insurgent said...
Intellectual Insurgent said ...
The outrage over this is being manufactured by the media to 1) give this freak the desired press in advance of the release of his first album and 2) force everyone to talk about this so-called double standard to which KW refers.This entire episode is an exercise in framing and memetics. Instead of discussing the progressively more pornographic nature of these award shows and culture in general, otherwise intelligent people like KW are distrated with the non-issue of whether there is a double standard between the debauchery of others and his debauchery. Next will come the predictable and manufactured discussion of fairness, tolerance, yada, yada, boo hoo.
And that's it. A lot of talking about nothing. This episode was a priming of the audience for what comes next. It started with Madonna and her masturbating with a cross, now we've Adam Lambert "simulating" oral sex and next will be live porn.
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I think it's cuz his singing sux.
DV - The "gatekeepers" knew who this man was and his accompanying sexual appetite. Why then should anyone be surprised that he used his spotlight on the stage to push the envelop and test the waters for the sake of publicity?
There is a point in time in our future where this will not raise any eyebrows and the insatiable entertainment-based public demands even more.
At the risk of being jumped on, this is my take:
This incident jst shows the problem with liberal society's selectivity on sexual freedom and expression. Why was Madonna's kissing of Britney considered risque and cool but this isn't or it's acceptable when two men often kiss on a show like Brothers and Sisters, but somehow this is abhorrent?
The issue is not whether he kissed another man, or that he's a seemingly Satanic man kissing another man, but that viewing audiences were 'not ready for it.' The rock music, the grunge look all add to it's shock value and audiences find it distasteful bec of rock artists are always 1xtra, ever the OTT extroverts.
But what the outraged public forget is that they are the very ones who want to live in a liberal society without limits on freedom and expression. That means opening the floodgates to ALL and anything goes; from the most sublime to the most extroverted expression.
If people were genuinely outraged even if simply bec the performance was too much for their selective moral tastes, then by now there would have been a mass channel boycott, anti-MTV petitions galore and more than a paltry +-1500 complaints filed as compared to the +14 million who watched the show. Even Jan Moir's article on the death of Stephen Gateley drew +22000 complaints in just one weekend! (See http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/19/jan-moir-complain-stephen-gately)
Either the chattering classes in the US find more joy in twittering about it bec there's no basis of objection or they don't realise they can organise themselves into an effective voice.
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So this homo-Elvis does exactly what he knows is going to disgust a large majority of people, because afterall homosexuality is viscerally repulsive, and then pretends
to be shocked that many did not take to his perversion? This is radical autonomy par excellence and shows without a doubt how the extremists are entirely out of touch with reality.
I mean this guy puts on a "performance" and it's not supposed to me anything? He then cites other instances of accepted debauchy thereby admitting an expectation of the same. Meaning, he meant to be debaucherous.
The outrage over this is being manufactured by the media to 1) give this freak the desired press in advance of the release of his first album and 2) force everyone to talk about this so-called double standard to which KW refers.
This entire episode is an exercise in framing and memetics. Instead of discussing the progressively more pornographic nature of these award shows and culture in general, otherwise intelligent people like KW are distrated with the non-issue of whether there is a double standard between the debauchery of others and his debauchery. Next will come the predictable and manufactured discussion of fairness, tolerance, yada, yada, boo hoo.
And that's it. A lot of talking about nothing. This episode was a priming of the audience for what comes next. It started with Madonna and her masturbating with a cross, now we've Adam Lambert "simulating" oral sex and next will be live porn.
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