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 Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:48 am
Heya Haus of Gagalooies. I stumbled upon an essay of Gaga's when she was attending NYU in 2004. It's based off of the idealism of Montaigne and Spencer Tunick and their works of art.
http://jodema.tumblr.com/post/406148528
It's really interesting to see her write about the concept of social abnormalities years ago, and how the public reacts to anything that isn't ordinary. It enlightened me on a part of Gaga's brain that I have been meaning to pick; she's always nearly nude, wearing outrageous outfits, and dominating headlines. Reading this essay was like finding the key to the diary of a loved one.
What do you guys think?
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:23 am
That was a pretty good essay. It's funny, I just wrote a 15 page paper about woman as monster in the realm of horror films and it touches on some very similar things, specifically about the human form being monstrous because of difference or abnormality (women are apparently scary because we are viewed as castrated and a castrator, we menstruate, and we have a womb that brings life into the world). It's all about crossing boundaries from normal to abnormal, inside to outside (birth), feminine to masculine, etc. These boundaries determine what is abject and women are apparently very connected to the abject because of birth and menstruation. A good example that relates partly to Gaga's point is Regan from the Exorcist. She crosses the boundary from an innocent girl to a girl that ejects bile, masturbates with a crucifix, punches grown men to the ground, murders, and makes incestuous sexual advances towards her mother. This aberrant behavior goes against the "proper" behavior of women and immediately marks Regan as a monster (I know this is extreme, but a similar idea). What supposedly makes her truly scary is that most of the men in the movie can't control this behavior. I'm gonna stop talking now, this paper needs to seriously get out of my head.
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