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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