on kissing girls
Having been suffering from writer's block lately, imagine my delight when a conversation came up this week that actually got me in a tizzy. Yes, I said tizzy.
I want to look at the song "I Kissed a Girl" by Katy Perry (as opposed to Jill Sobule) and answer to so many people's objections to it. Apparently her parents are appalled that she is promoting the homosexual agenda whereas lesbians (including two of my friends participating in the conversation inspiring this) see the song as perpetuating a negative lesbian stereotype that it's an experimentation and we all secretly like men. I mean, I know that I'm waiting for the right guy, but I can't speak for every lesbian.
First of all, neither side is correct. Katy Perry is not trying to turn everyone gay or make them go out and kiss girls. As well, she is not a straight girl posing as a lesbian and trying to speak for an entire demographic of people in a negative context. Rather, she is a straight girl singing about kissing a chick in a bar. She liked it. Who wouldn't? The girl was soft, had cherry chapstick, and it was innocent. How many straight girls HAVEN'T experimented like that? Really?
Second of all, the important thing to realize about this song is that while Katy Perry's narrator has a boyfriend, kissing this girl has nothing to do with him watching. I think this is the most positive part of the song. She is kissing this girl because she wants to, not because she wants to turn her boyfriend on. Instead of criticizing her for two points of view she is NOT representing, why don't we commend her for exposing experimentation with no other purpose than personal satisfaction?
And why is this always compared to Jill Sobule's song of the same name. . . negatively? Jill Sobule's was far worse, in my opinion, because the narrator has a fiance. She doesn't celebrate the experimentation of it and why she likes it. No. She intends on staying with Larry and maybe will even kiss Jenny again. Additionally, the folk guitar lesbian sound is just . . . ugh, I hate it. Give me synthesized dance music any day. Not to mention, Fabio?
For your convenience, please feel free to compare.
I want to look at the song "I Kissed a Girl" by Katy Perry (as opposed to Jill Sobule) and answer to so many people's objections to it. Apparently her parents are appalled that she is promoting the homosexual agenda whereas lesbians (including two of my friends participating in the conversation inspiring this) see the song as perpetuating a negative lesbian stereotype that it's an experimentation and we all secretly like men. I mean, I know that I'm waiting for the right guy, but I can't speak for every lesbian.
First of all, neither side is correct. Katy Perry is not trying to turn everyone gay or make them go out and kiss girls. As well, she is not a straight girl posing as a lesbian and trying to speak for an entire demographic of people in a negative context. Rather, she is a straight girl singing about kissing a chick in a bar. She liked it. Who wouldn't? The girl was soft, had cherry chapstick, and it was innocent. How many straight girls HAVEN'T experimented like that? Really?
Second of all, the important thing to realize about this song is that while Katy Perry's narrator has a boyfriend, kissing this girl has nothing to do with him watching. I think this is the most positive part of the song. She is kissing this girl because she wants to, not because she wants to turn her boyfriend on. Instead of criticizing her for two points of view she is NOT representing, why don't we commend her for exposing experimentation with no other purpose than personal satisfaction?
And why is this always compared to Jill Sobule's song of the same name. . . negatively? Jill Sobule's was far worse, in my opinion, because the narrator has a fiance. She doesn't celebrate the experimentation of it and why she likes it. No. She intends on staying with Larry and maybe will even kiss Jenny again. Additionally, the folk guitar lesbian sound is just . . . ugh, I hate it. Give me synthesized dance music any day. Not to mention, Fabio?
For your convenience, please feel free to compare.
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