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Pink is the New Black!

Is Pink the New Black?

This week David Jones announced that pink is the new black and how right they were.  Especially when considering pink is the colour commonly associated with gay and lesbian community. If pink is indeed the new black then i want to crawl back into my nice alternative lifestyle and attempt to remain being one out of ten… not one out of five or one out of 3… those ratios suck!

Gone are the days when everyone got excited about Brittney Spears kissing Madonna at the MTV awards as a one off thing. We now have fledgling dykes everywhere from the Tyra Banks parade that is Next Top Model (since when did we care about clothes let alone showing off the latest in couture fashion) to Jess Origliasso from The Veronicas being spotted at the Bank on a Wednesday to Lindsay Lohan shacking up with a female DJ Samantha Ronson. Not to mention the constant tyrade of reality TV shows each with there own token dyke (think survivor, biggest loser, big brother etc ).

The music business is in on the mainstream dykism. No longer are we analysing the lyrics of Missy Higgins song Scar attempting to conclude whether or not it has a lesbian connotation. Instead blaring out of top 40 radio stations across the globe is Katy Perry singing a pro hetero song on kissing a girl, with lyrics like..

I kissed a girl and I liked it
The taste of her cherry chap stick
I kissed a girl just to try it
I hope my boyfriend don’t mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don’t mean I’m in love tonight
I kissed a girl and I liked it
I liked it 

I mean is this a song promoting women’s pride? a celebration of the achievement of acceptance for gays and lesbians? or is she out to impress her boyfriend.

The love does dare not speak its name is now not only being spoken it is being screamed, popularised, celebritised and made mainstream…. and with equal rights for the lesbian community becoming more and more aligned with our hetero counterparts, we have less to struggle for and have less to fight for… but does this mean we should become more normalised, boring and mainstream. Bring back the controversy, and sensationalism

 It was far more interesting!