Madonna: "Gay Rights Have Advanced Further Than Women's Rights"
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Madonna has been having a kiki with the gay press lately: While the Material Matriarch told us she's disappointed gay men are losing their sense of community, she declared in the new issue of Out that LGBT rights are progressing faster than women's rights.
“Gay rights are way more advanced than women’s rights," she told writer Christopher Glazek. "People are a lot more open-minded to the gay community than they are to women, period. It’s moved along for the gay community, for the African-American community, but women are still just trading on their ass. To me, the last great frontier is women.”
Not to be disrespectful to the queen, but hasn't Madonna traded on her ass for years?
Maybe it's not that women aren't allowed to use sex as a weapon, but that they can't do anything else, that irks her.
“Women are still... the group that people won’t let change. [To be successful] you must fit into this box: You must behave this way, dress this way. You’re still either a virgin or a whore. If you’re a certain age, you’re not allowed to express your sexuality, be single, or date younger men.”
She does have a point. Though we'd hate to be the person to try and tell Madonna she's not allowed to do any of those things.
