Left Calls for Katy Perry Boycott Over Marine Video

Fox News ^ | March 30, 2012 | Fox News

[andyk]

LOS ANGELES – Katy Perry transforms herself into a U.S. Marine in her latest power-pop single, "Part of Me," which addresses female empowerment and pays particular tribute to service women.

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Prominent feminist Naomi Wolf ... is urging Americans to boycott the singer, labeling her video "a total piece of propaganda for the Marines."

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[W. W. SMITH]

From six years experience as a military recruiter, the difference between a woman who joins the military and those who don’t is the former is much more sure of herself and independent than the later will ever be.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Yeah, the progs didn’t have a problem with Katy for her “I Kissed A Girl” video/song.

http://www.last.fm/music/Katy+Perry/_/I+Kissed+a+Girl

[NCMom57]

I have no beef with her wearing the uniform I wore for 11 years. It’s just a video after all, and a great one at that! Can’t wait to post this to my Facebook profile and drive the few libs I know crazy.

[LibsRJerks]

Liberal women strike me as people who are always giving into their impulses. They want control, yet they never truly CAN practice it. It takes balls to refuse sex before your’e married, and yet once married, to actually STAY married, and also take responsibility for the children you create. Takes even more to raise them right and gain their respect. It takes balls to join the military and survive in it. It takes balls to be a total stay at home mom and raise a bunch of kids.

Libs and feminists can’t face life’s challenges head on. They always need some crutch — some fallback. I think they’re incredibly WEAKminded. If only we could convince young women of this — but being younger and more vulnerable, they gravitate towards this easy way out kind of life. “I just wasn’t ready ...” always the answer.

[Cheburashka]

Wow, in my Marine circles, people are complaining she wore the uniform because SHE DIDNT EARN IT!!

That is a personal thing to us Marines.

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Gosh, John Wayne in Sands of Iwo Jima must make them apoplectic.

[CodeToad]

“in my Marine circles, people are complaining she wore the uniform because SHE DIDNT EARN IT!!”

Did John Wayne “earn it”?

[JimC214]

Neither did Darrin McGavin, Jack Webb, Clint Eastwood or Robert Conrad. But every Drill Instructor I ever met, would quote Webb from the DI.

[sandboxshooter]

You’d be surprised how many people in the military made rash decisions to go in. I did, and it lasted 20 years...

[Inwoodian]

Isn’t Naomi the chick who was paid $100,000 for coming up with the idea for Algore to wear earth tones during his presidential run?

[moehoward]

Good for her. She took fire from the left for her "stand with Israel" Tweets. Give her credit for trying....

[onedoug]

I guess I tend to tear up pretty easily.

[Jabba the Nutt]

And don't the feminists want women in combat? They want women in the Marines in combat, but they don't want music videos of women in the Marines.

Pretzel logic. Liberalism is willful mental disability. In severe cases, it gets you on the Supreme Court (Kagan, Sotomajor) or named Solicitor General Vermicelli (whatever). See my tagline.

[andyk]

The video showed a woman who dont need a man to make her complete. Feminists should have been doing handstands over it.

I hadn't even thought about that. Excellent point.

[andyk]

Wow, in my Marine circles, people are complaining she wore the uniform because SHE DIDNT EARN IT!!

It's funny - that thought crossed my mind. It was so inspiring to me though that I really thought its portrayal of the Marines would make up for that.

[andyk]

OK...God’s work. :-)

Well I agree. I thought it was really uplifting and showed a patriotic side of Katy of which I was not aware.

[andyk]

My problem with the whole thing is that it portrays her decision to join as a sudden, rash act, a response to breaking up with her boyfriend.

Yes. It was a simplistic theatrical twist used to deliver her to her personal redemption, and how the USMC helped her achieve it.

[dfwgator]

It was a twist on the old rejected boyfriend joining the French Foreign Legion thing.

[andyk]

I guess I tend to tear up pretty easily.

Oh, it had me going too. :)

[Scotswife]

Naomi Wolf doesn’t mind when Katy encourages menage-a-troi,or seems to enjoy being raped by an alien...but this? THIS???

[RaceBannon]

I heard John Wayne got really treated like garbage in some USO appearances, too, by Marines back in the 1940’s! :)

For much of the same reason