Thought provoking quotes

QUOTE: "Why isn't anyone debating whether the hyper-sexualization of teenage girls and hyper-materialism that claims to be critiquing fame and consumerism, even while shoving it down our throats, is doing us any good as a society? Even if Lady Gaga is just the latest apex of our reality-TV-video-game-shock-and-awe culture, is there a point where we get to say 'Enough!'? Or has everyone become so intoxicated by the current cultural Kool-Aid that we have to fear the stigma of being labeled 'prudish,' or 'uncool,' if we question whether our girls and boys should grow up thinking that violent sexual exploitation and domination of women is the 21st-century norm?"

—journalists Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin, authors of The Virus and the Vaccine, on Lady Gaga's racy and controversial "Telephone" video

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