Amanda Palmer & Margaret Cho double-team Katy Perry

Amanda and Margaret surprise Katy while she sings her hit song, "I Kissed a Girl."

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[Quentin Miceli]

So? It's still triggering as fuck. Imagine watching this from a survivor's point of view. It's awful and triggering, and I'm sure there were people in her audience who are also survivors. I really don't like Katy Perry. I don't like her appropriation of my queer-ness. But I don't think she deserves to be raped, even metaphorically. This is awful.

[Skye St. james]

There is absolutely NO context where simulated rape is okay. And guess fucking what - THE 'POINT' DOESN'T MATTER. Because this performance IS trivializing rape and making it into a joke. The punchline of the joke is literally a woman being raped. I don't care how fucked up Katy Perry is (and I don't like her one bit), that does not excuse this at all. They could've chosen a more tactful way of approaching this, but instead they support rape culture by using rape to make people laugh. Fuck that.

[Teddi Hristova]

It is not about actual rape, you guys  - it's only about kissing a girl from Katy Perry's point of view ! ... the thing is, "kissing a girl" would feel as offensive as an actual rape for such a faker :-)

[Steph Ann]

pretty sure the "point" this offensive as fuck video was trying to make could have easily been made by just saying "if you actually tried to kiss her, she'd freak"

[thehindmost88]

*Whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistle* Thats the joke flying way over your head. Rape is not the joke, a talentless pop singer using lesbianism to sell records at a time(and I still think this) that its obviously just bullshit used to sell a record.

[TheLuminous01]

This exactly.

[Mynnia]

So if I'm into men I should enjoy being raped by men? o_O

[Eternalux E]

it always makes me sad when i see someone trying so hard to troll but no one takes the bait, so i'll leave u this comment for the attention you crave and to tell you better luck next time <3

[CanaryAsylum]

Yeah. Four years ago. Why don't you ask her what her thoughts are now instead of just jumping on your broom and zooming over her like some shrieking hellbat?

[CanaryAsylum]

First of all, that's ancient history. Four year old video. A lot has changed for Amanda in that time.

Secondly? It's art. If it doesn't move you in some way, be it joy or revulsion, it's not doing it right.

But I understand where you're coming from. I just don't see the point in dragging someone's skeletons out of their closet.

[RedRubyRae]

I understand what she was trying to get at, the statement she was trying to make, but she screwed up big time in making it.