Did Lady Gaga glamourise bulimia in her SXSW set?

[big_dog]

Did Lady Gaga glamourise bulimia in her SXSW set?
"Lady Gaga has struggled with eating disorders in the past, so it's indefensible that she's glamourising bulimia in her SXSW set"
There is nothing about showing an attractive woman vomiting that is 'art'
Thanks to Lady Gaga, bulimia has a glamorous new poster girl, showing a fresh generation of teenagers that eating disorders are cool.

Two minutes into Gaga's performance of the song Swine at SXSW in Texas, vomit artist Millie Brown trots on stage, slurps up some green liquid, then repeatedly stuffs her manicured fingers into her mouth and vomits all over Gaga’s cleavage. Later Brown crawls on top of her and vomits black goo onto her again. Then they both writhe around in it.

It’s provocative, grotesque and utterly indefensible. Hundreds of vulnerable people die from eating disorders every year, many of them from conditions they developed while they were teenagers. Around the same age as many of Gaga’s fans, in fact.

Gaga has admitted to suffering from bulimia and anorexia since she was fifteen. She won’t have incorporated Brown into her act without realising its resonance. Yet whatever her reasons, she is wrong to think that showing an attractive skinny woman making herself sick is anything other than misleading, damaging and dangerous.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/lady-gaga-has-struggled-with-eating-disorders-in-the-past-so-its-indefensible-that-shes-glamourising-bulimia-in-her-sxsw-set-9193120.html

[cloudbase]

1. Vomit artist? n/t

[Arkansas Granny]

2. That is sick, literally.

WTF is a "vomit artist"???

[Ilsa]

3. I would have booed that shit. Who wants to PAY

to see that? Disgusting. I would ask for my money back.

[morningfog]

4. Stupid,gross and shock. Nothing to do with bulimia.

[pinboy3niner]

5. Gaga me with a spoon

I'm a Valley boy...we got over this kind of shit decades ago.

[aikoaiko]

6. I see no evidence of glamorizing bulimia.

[penultimate]

9. I doubt she was trying to glamorize bulimia, but it's still WTFie...

She is an odd one.

[tkmorris]

7. That sound like glamourizing bulimia to you?

If anything, I think she was trying to make a statement about how AWFUL bulimia is. If so, I get it, but damn that is repulsive. This is what passes for art these days?

/Get off my lawn.

[MrScorpio]

8. Nothing like Roman Showers to get the crowd a jumpin'. nt

[steve2470]

10. I found this explanation

Swine is a song about gaga getting raped when she was younger, the puking represents the process of getting rid of the pain from her past. Art is defined as having no limitations or boundaries and art comes in many different forms. People need to pipe the fuck down because Gaga has struggled with bulimia herself and her last intention was to glamourize it.

from the comments at: youtube com/watch?v=XJ6CQHkoh-w

[derby378]

11. I understand the bulimia was caused by getting raped

Hopefully she's no longer dealing with that shit, but there's still a lot of rape victims who endure much, much worse.

[bigwillq]

13. Gaga was raped?

Haven't heard that before. I am Googling now. Haven't found anything so far.

[CBGLuthier]

12. See it's all about Art. That's Art with a capital A.

Because she is an artiste and artistes must stretch their boundaries while doing their Art.

Nahh just kidding. if anything she is a Narcissist with a great big capital N (for ninny). She does not care WHY you are looking at her just so long as you continue to look.

Me, I never looked. Not even once. Heard enough t know better.

[Bluenorthwest]

14. DU is often like attending a Southern Baptist Convention

nt