Marilyn Manson

I love that Marilyn Manson. I just adore him. I went to the taping of his dvd, which was going to be shown on New Year’s Eve on Pay-per-view, and I was screaming and crying the entire time. Motherfucker got on some stilts, contacts, all that white makeup, corsets and the fool still rocks his cock off. He got so much wardrobe, the man makes Liberace look like Neil Young. That is what I call a show. Marilyn is the essence, spirit, vitality – jiz of rock, and sucker mc need to call him sire. It’s not just the music, which is beautiful in its complexity, depth, genius and originality, it is the whole cult of personality. The largesse of his mythological hold on society, tragedies like Columbine for which he was held accountable, when he was doing nothing but creating art that was provocative, volatile, innovative – and if anything an outlet for violence, as opposed to an instigating force. I believe that when a public figure, denies the traditional roles of gender, it is the most unacceptable idea. That a male rock star, might adopt a woman’s name, wear makeup, have the feminine yet the utterly masculine persona blending into itself, rearranging our template of sex, a gender outlaw, there is suspicion created. Never mind the fact that Marilyn Manson is probably the most heterosexual of all the gender fuck artist types out there. His heterosexuality, and his confidence therein, threatens the status quo even more, because it points to homophobia as a weakness within straight culture, and his willingness to feminize himself, only makes his cock seem larger. I celebrate the fact that he won the court case over the security guard who was allegedly traumatized by an event that occurred at a show in Minneapolis in 2000, where Manson was purported to have rubbed his crotch on the security guard’s head. I am sorry for any hurt that this may have caused the guard, if he got a bruise on his cheek, but really, what did he expect? If he was considered to be an authority figure, if he was near the front of the auditorium, if he was aware of the show he was working at, if he had any sense of humor or understood this artist at all, he should have expected something like this to happen. Look, if it was a woman, I might feel differently about it. An overtly sexual act, against an unwilling or unwitting female, would make me have issues – perhaps because it is such a common thing. Sexualized violence against women is an everyday outrage, not something to satirize or use for entertainment – although it is always no matter what the state of the gender wars. So of course I have here a double standard. But the victim was a dude, and the fact that Marilyn Manson put his cock on the guy’s face just kind of makes me happy. I am sure this is unfair, but I get to be, as society is unfair to me, and I am not evolved enough to rise above it. I love Marilyn Manson. He fucking rocks and he can rub his cock on the side of my head anytime.