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This is what I think Lady Gaga is doing with her new song Judas and the horns on her head. I think that she is taking a critical approach to the notion of demonization. The bible demonizes gay people and is used to justify prejudice and homophobia. As a spokesperson for gay-rights she is making the symbol for demonization, concrete. What she is doing is radical and dangerous. People resist challenge to a belief-system. I can intellectualize what she’s doing but many cannot and believe that she is the devil incarnate. To take what she is doing at face-value is to miss the point.
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Romy Shiller is a pop culture critic and holds a PhD in Drama from the University of Toronto. Her academic areas of concentration include film, gender performance, camp and critical thought. She lives in Montreal where she continues her writing. All books are available online
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