i love this
fuck me
No, seriously, Lady Gaga, stop. I already ranted about this earlier today, but I can’t say it enough. She should not, under any circumstances, be advocating, romanticizing, or in any way promoting ace-bandage or tape-binding.
Lady Gaga, if you want to be a LGBT+ advocate, good. All the more power to you. But educate yourself. If you want to dress in drag, awesome. Go for it. But do not use binding techniques that are dangerous. Ace and tape binding is dangerous. It can crack ribs, fuck up your lungs, rip your skin, crush your chest, destroy circulation. It can seriously hurt you.
Buy a binder. Make that an artistic statement. You are an award-winning, extremely famous musician. You have enough money to buy a binder. It’s not as “pretty” as ace bandages or tape, sure. But you want to be involved in the LGBT+ community. Show it. Don’t let trans kids look at you and think, oh, this is how I should bind. Look at how Lady Gaga did it, it must be okay. They will end up hurting themselves, because their only easily-accessible resource is showing them a binding techique that should never be used.
Do not romanticize trans people, Lady Gaga. If you want to do drag, do it right. If you want to be a trans advocate, do your research. Do not do this. Stop this Ace bandage/tape binding right now, because it can do so much more harm than good.
For real. It’s not pretty when that tape…and skin..come off..
Has it not occurred to any of you that a painful, unhealthy form of binding is EXACTLY THE POINT?
Because oh, yeah, sure, everything else Gaga’s ever done is about flowers and kittens and healthy modes of expression….
(via rectumofglory)
