Comments on: The Susan Boyle phenomenon

By: acnemedication

acnemedication — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:59:58 +0000

Susan Boyle has a good singing voice but it is not only the voice that counts if you want to win a singing contest.

By: melatoningirl

melatoningirl — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:48:19 +0000

Susan Boyle has exceptional voice. I wish i had a voice like her.

By: msakel

msakel — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:58:03 +0000

Just one question if anyone would care to comment. Why is the fashion industry itself run by men, mostly gay men who are imposing their own misshaped and twisted version of ‘feminity’ on the millions of unsuspecting women who fall prey to it without questioning it. Mothers these days are contributing to the sexualization and early pornification of their daughters by allowing them and indeed encouraging them to follow ‘fashion’….With child abuse growing by the day and pornographers multiplying in unprecedented fashion, we are now confronted with the decision to take matters in our own hands and defy the fashion-designing men who want to girdle women’s bodies in the image of some imaginably desirable female form existing in their minds only! No wonder some fashion models look so anorexic and physiologically frail, drugged up and abused…. The Susan Boyles should multiply after this and maybe we’ll retire the fashion industry to its earlier demise–to save the 52% of the population anyway.

By: msakel

msakel — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:50:28 +0000

Excellent commentary, Dr. Socks! Is there anything the New Agenda can do to connect with every other woman out there in the U.S. and Canada at least who feel strongly that something must be done about the ‘pornification of our culture’ that has crippled women’s bodies and spirits and made our young women bimboish robots whose intelligence is to be feared rather than celebrated? Can we educate our misogynist leg-thrillers to cut out their crap and start respecting women in a manner analogous to that of treating racial minorities? Only when sexism is confronted in the same vigorous way as racism will we enjoy freedom from cultural identity-shaping that promotes pornification and self-esteem hara-kiri in our young. Remember what happend, justifiably, to Don Imus on his racist commentary? If our misogynist media were to have treated the female candidates in the primary with the fear of retribution that was present in the Imus affair, the current potus would be female! Time for legislating sexist Hate crimes…

By: Juliette

Juliette — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 05:24:51 +0000

Brava Violet

This story was so important I emailed Amy a few days ago to ask her to have TNA report on it. Well done.
As a classical composer and music intructor I have witnessed how nearly two generations of Americans have been deprived this kind of pure atristic beauty. Some how the music industry made music a visual art form and a tacky one at that. The video of the audience shows that even the most dreadfully superficial spectators, who saw Susan Boyle as a failure even before she opened her mouth to sing, were enlightened by the very thing that MTV, VH1 and the pop music industry as a whole left behind-ART.
Please expose your children to great classical and jazz composers. Let them know what a real musician is. Take them to the symphony, the opera, jazz concerts and musicals. Don’t let the Lil’ Waynes of the world be their “art.” They are starving for this and what we have witnessed in Susan’ performance was a feast for the hungry.

By: Helen

Helen — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:29:05 +0000

Great commentary.

I want to give a shout out to the three judges! They too held their own preconceived notions whether the lady had talent. When Lady Boyle sang, like an angel I might add, all three of them said aloud what others were thinking and praised her and her talent accordingly. I don’t know who the female judge is but she really beamed with pride throughout the song; you just know she wanted to get up and hug her.

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:41:11 +0000

I watched Susan’s video several times, paying careful attention to the audience. It showed mostly women — the one guy I saw was just looking at the stage expectantly. The women were the ones making all the faces and rolling their eyes.

I have three friends who have had breast implants. Of the three, one’s husband was very much against it, the other two thought the women looked great without them. I agree that, to a large degree, this female perfection nonsense is much more marketing driven than man driven. Or at least majority man driven.

By: gxm17

gxm17 — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:53:30 +0000

Bes, you raise an interesting point about “women’s corporate media” and the idea that women aren’t sexually visual which is such an obvious lie because the very same media starts out using male imagery to attract female readers with “teeny bopper” magazines. But once the girls get older they are suddenly assailed with images of female “perfection,” a manufactured ideal only attainable with lots of make-up, the right clothes, the right lighting, the right camera angle and the right photo retouching. I find it quite interesting that the very first carrot stick is cute boys. Kinda throws the whole “women aren’t visual” notion out the window. The truth is that a bait and switch con has been implemented. Our culture has warped female sexuality and used it against us. Bes, I sure hope you’re right that things are changing.

By: Bes

Bes — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:55:35 +0000

I don’t think what the corporate media portrays as Americas attitudes toward women is actually what Americans think regarding women. Corporate media is completely out of touch with reality. They are constantly yapping about women’s place in their sexualized world. But who really listens? People don’t sign up for these sexist channels they are forced into peoples homes by the Media Cartel who own all production and delivery of media and who gate keep everyone else out. It is truly sad that corporate media is the picture of the world that neglected kids get, I wish we could do something for them. Corporate media has taken a pornified view of life. They will tell you ugly men are Ok or even funny because women are not sexually visual. All women’s corporate media are devoted to telling women how they can best conform to the pornified standard by buying fashion and beauty products. But these movies and magazines don’t sell to real women, and women don’t watch the corporate “women’s channels”. But now look at “twilight”a movie written, screen written, cast and directed by women. It is probably the highest netting movie of 2008 and it features an average womans encounters with very attractive men. It encourages expression of the half of female sexuality that is usually denied by patriarchy and certainly by corporate pornography, the half where average women sit happily on their sweat panted bums and check out good looking men. Take heart,things are changing and I am sure “Twilight” has the shorts of the old men of corporate media in a knot.

By: truthisgold

truthisgold — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:26:01 +0000

Oh and did I mention that I got chills and teared up as she began to sing?