Lady Gaga Talks About Malaysian Censorship

Lady Gaga is not happy to know that the Malaysian government is censoring her song "Born This Way" because the country consists of conservative majority of Muslims who don't accept LGBT rights.

In Malaysia, homosexuality is taboo and illegal. Many Islamic groups there consider her song's lyrics "No matter gay, straight, or bi, lesbian or transgendered life" to be very offensive. As a result of this, many of the concerts have been cancelled and often the organizers are fined later for contravening laws governing modesty. Broadcasters have been fined 10,000 pounds for playing her song as well in Malaysia.

Lady Gaga spoke openly about the Malaysian censorship issue regarding her song. She said that the youth of Malaysia should fight for their rights and make their voices heard if they want to hear these words from her song. She said one must fight for liberation from the set rules in a peaceful way.

Well, I am pretty ok with somebody else's sexual orientations and accept LGBT rights. I understand everybody may not be so cool about these things. But I think every society will take time to realize these things are a reality even if laws or religions prohibit such stuff. Even in countries like Malaysia LGBT community would exist quietly. I feel one is gay or lesbian or straight by nature. What's so special if you are straight but your friend is gay? At the end of the day we are all humans. Do we judge someone on the fact that he is gay or lesbian or if he is a decent human being or not?

These are natural things and people should understand that. Anyhow, there is no harm in playing a song because sexual preferences do not depend on such lyrics rather her lyrics merely talk about the general acceptance of people no matter how they are. The bigger and better picture is missed by focusing on individual words like lesbians or transgender etc.

War Against Corrective Rape Is Going Strong!

A small group of lesbian activists from the poverty-stricken townships of Cape Town walked into South African parliament on Monday and convinced their government to finally start fighting the country’s decades-old scourge of "corrective rape" -- where men rape lesbian women to "turn" them straight. .

Late last year, these activists called on the world to help them pressure their leaders to take action on corrective rape. People from over 163 countries signed up petitions to help them out.

Three and a half months later, they succeeded. Teaming up with 23 major South African organizations, they got some of the most powerful officials in the country to agree to bring together various government arms and civil society groups to develop and implement a national action plan to combat corrective rape.

The ministry officials asked for details of specific cases in need of immediate attention, committed to a series of meetings beginning in six weeks, and promised to present concrete proposals to prevent corrective rape by the next meeting.

The petitions by people from all over the world led to the international press coverage of the campaign, taking corrective rape from an unspoken epidemic to a prominent international issue. In the last two weeks alone, the campaign against corrective rape has been covered by Time Magazine, the Washington Post, USA Today, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Seattle Times, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, MSNBC, Dan Rather, Forbes, Yahoo! News, Salon, and dozens of global outlets from Taiwan, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, Spain, and even a Finnish tabloid.

It’s an astounding victory, far beyond what we ever could have imagined when we set out late last year. Please sign up the following petition to continue building up pressure on the government against corrective rape.

Take Action Here.

Hypocrisy Once Again: Ban on Slackistan

It is a known fact that Pakistani cinema does not exist. Even our own actresses often say that we no industry such as cinema. I remember, Zara Sheikh said on a television show that our industry is working only because of God otherwise there is nothing left of it. We do have some nice cinemas and multiplexes opening up along with 3D cinemas also now but we don't have our own products to be displayed. It is something we all know, that those who go to cinemas only go to watch Hollywood or Bollywood movies.

The last movie that we were all proud of was Khuda Ke Liye that impressed critics and audiences internationally. So much so, John Abraham's New York was also inspired by Khuda Ke Liye and was more of a follow up plot of where the Pakistani movie ended. 

Now, we have an independent movie called Slackistan which is directed by a London based film maker called Hammad Khan. The movie is about a group of youngsters in Islamabad but basically about a guy who wants to achieve his dreams along with his friends in the middle of a politically messed up country. 

The movie got acclaim and appreciation internationally. Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Cannes, Goa, New York, London and Washington DC all looked at Slackistan positively but the film-maker and the cast of the movie were quite disappointed when their own country - Pakistan banned Slackistan. 

So the way things are at the moment is that the Pakistani censor board banned the movie on the usage of words like Taliban, lesbian and scenes showing the usage of alcohol. 

This is again another hypocritical act that we have seen again. Movies, art, music, theater are just another form of self expression but in Pakistan there is no freedom of speech and expression. Everything happens in Pakistan. Every possible shit and dirty stuff happens here in almost all the stratas and parts of the country. Talibans, lesbians and alcohol are all a reality - so what is the big deal if it is shown in a movie. Our dramas depict such stuff openly every day. Banning a movie only means people who are interested in this form of entertainment would love to watch it even more. 

Anne Hathaway to guest star on 'Glee'

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Women & Sex

“Only to my experience the mass of women are like this: most of them want a man, but don’t want the sex, but they put up with it, as part of the bargain. The more old-fashioned sort just lie there like nothing & let you go ahead. They don’t mind afterwards: then they like you. But the actual thing itself is nothing to them, a bit distasteful. And most men like it that way. I hate it. But the sly sort of women who are like that pretend they’re not. They pretend they’re passionate & have thrills. But it’s all cockaloopy. They make it up. – Then there’s the ones that love everything, every kind of feeling & cuddling & going off, every kind except the natural one. They always make you go off when you’re not in the only place you should be, when you go off. – Then there’s the hard sort, that are the devil to bring off at all, & bring themselves off, like my wife. They want to be the active party. – Then there’s the sort that’s just dead inside: but dead: and they know it. Then there’s the sort that puts you out before you really “come,” & go on writhing their loins till they bring themselves off against your thighs. But they’re mostly the Lesbian sort. It’s astonishing how Lesbian women are, consciously or unconsciously. Seems to me they’re nearly all Lesbian.”

D. H. Lawrence

This paragraph has been taken from Lady Chatterley’s Lover, which is a story of sexual awakening. This book raised a storm of indignation at that time.

Well the writer is dead & he said what most people cannot even think today. He’s one of my mentors. You don’t have to agree with what he has said.

Many people including women may find all this quite derogatory & judgmental even today. So please don’t start pulling your hair or yanking out somebody else’s. This is just a thought. A character telling you about different kind of women. That’s it.