Katy Perry's "Part of Me" Music Video Slammed as Marines "Propaganda" by Feminist Writer

[Neoma]

Katy Perry's "Part of Me" music video seemed pretty pro-woman to us, but feminist writer Naomi Wolf sure doesn't think so.

"Have you all seen the Katy Perry Marines video?" the author posted on her Facebook page Sunday. "It is a total piece of propaganda for the Marines…. I really want to find out if she was paid by them for making it…It is truly shameful."

Wolf even asks fans of the singer to do something drastic…

Quit buying her music!

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This is the video

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. Feminists turn on each other like no other group I know of

Truly unfortunate...and never productive.

[Neoma]

2. You truly think the E! online folks are feminists?

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. It was a general expression and its not the first time Wolf has gone after other women

[Johnny Rico]

4. Yes, the video is pro-Marines. And this is a problem...why?

[jakeXT]

5. It's easier to stay on message, you get all the vehicles and men a lot cheaper.

Such stories are a no, no

Rape in the US military: America's dirty little secret
A female soldier in Iraq is more likely to be attacked by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/dec/09/rape-us-military

'Act Of Valor' And The Military's Long Hollywood Mission
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As David Sirota recounted in his book "Back To Our Future," John McTiernan, director of famously Pentagon-rejected film "The Hunt for Red October," says studios began telling screenwriters and directors to be sure that they could "get cooperation from the military, or forget about making the picture."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/17/act-of-valor-military-hollywood_n_1284338.html

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Katy who?

[Neoma]

7. Well, she was married to the Booky Wook guy.

Pop/rock/gospel singer. As annoying as Justin Bieber. Dresses like Lady Gaga sometimes.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. Oh yeah, that guy.

He's kind of funny, sometimes. At least he was funny for about 15 minutes.

Actually, I'm lying. I do know who Katy Perry is, although I've probably heard one song of hers in my life, and it sucked.

I'm a little more towards the Jerry Garcia end of the spectrum than the Katy Perry side, myself.

[Neoma]

9. I gave that book to goodwill.

I don't usually get rid of books either. I still have that scientology book and the Morman bible around somewhere. A few tarot card books, and few bullshit books on the Masons. (We know one of the leaders, he did a Newt Gingrich marriage wise, and worshipped Satan...) All for entertainment value really.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. I'm still trying to read Infinite Jest.

That's my excuse for not reading anything else, indefinitely.

[Neoma]

11. I've been hopping from book to book lately.

Read 100 pages here, read 150 pages there, read 50 pages somewhere or another. It's annoying, my brain can't sit still right now. Somehow I skipped from Female serial killers, to the wars between the British and French, to a Biography of Cancer, to Indian Reservations. (I always choose cheery subjects.)

[Warren DeMontague]

12. I don't normally read much fiction, but "game of thrones" got me into the George R.R. Martin books.

Rippin yarn.