Lady Gaga is phenomenal, I really love what she is doing musically, stylistically and socially. She is easily one of the most recognizable celebrities of the moment, and yet there is an invisible cloud of doubt hovering above her, casting a shadow that society will not ignore.
How this cloud arrived I’ll never care to know, but leave it up to “good ol’ fashioned” gender stereotypes to rear their ugly pus-infested heads. I was doing a casual Google search the other day when I discovered something very appalling.
I can’t recall exactly what I was searching on google, but it did start with the letters ‘i’ and ‘s’. As soon as I hit the space bar to type in the next word, autocomplete kicked in and I was given these suggestions:
Now, I’m not quite sure of the algorithm behind Google’s autocomplete, but I know that it has to do with what ordinary web surfers are searching combined with the actual web pages out there. I guess I can’t say I’m too surprised, as society continues to prove that it is gender-obsessed.
Oh, but it doesn’t stop there.
It is indeed a sad commentary. These seemingly innocuous terms bring forth these terrible suggestions. Perhaps you’ll find more, I stopped after five tries. Will the day ever arrive where society no longer cares what genitalia you possess, instead taking each person for a human being?
JessicaWhoHD
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Lady Gaga is NOT a man, trans or otherwise. I love her anyway. All it took was one lousy up-the-kilt shot of a pair of bunched-up undies to launch worldwide speculation that she was a man. Sheesh. As if any self-respecting drag performer would appear in her skimpy costumes untucked.
I don’t understand any of this !
Wow is and if and was…..I’m very surprised that this shows up for them lol.
As for how it began….I thikn it was some comment she made on twitter about her ‘tiny dick’ or something. I think she was joking but yah.
I think Lady Gaga is fabulous, and the most refreshing thing to come along in the world of entertainment, since the early 80′s. It doesn’t surprise me that some of the dimer bulbs in our society would question her gender. Her femininity is extreme, and her art can be outrageous, so I suppose some feel that makes her more akin to a drag queen, than the average woman. Me? I just love it! I think she’s a very intelligent and talented artist, who uses her own body as canvas. Her video, Bad Romance, while completely mental, is one of the best works of video art I have ever seen.
Melissa XX
Well, What do you expect?
It seems to me that a lot of fools have nothing better to do then stick their nose’s up someone elses skirt.
then they wonder why that someone farts.
Although I’ve never really gotten into Lady Gaga’s music myself (I think I’ve only heard one song of hers to date), I do admire her outrageous sense of dress and willingness to be controversial (the latter thing makes me wonder if she’s secretly having a big laugh at all this speculation about her sex). In a way, she reminds me a lot of Marilyn Manson (hey, wasn’t he the guy who played Paul on “The Wonder Years”? Just kidding). I don’t know if anyone’s ever speculated about *him* being intersexed or whatever, though I do remember the androgynous image he presented of himself on the cover of “Mechanical Animals”, which I always liked (unfortunately, I didn’t like the album itself nearly as much). I find people like that really cool. You look at them and think, “Gee, I bet you wouldn’t be afraid to do *anything*!”
It does indeed say a lot about the web.