Ode to Narcissism

Interview with Madonna about her Africa movie

jakoblodwick:

New York Magazine: In the movie, you look at one ritual in which a young woman is told she must have sex with a man three times in a day, in order to “cleanse” her.

Madonna: It’s not my place to judge that tradition.

Since Madonna has chosen to abstain from judgment, allow me the pleasure. It is wrong to rape someone, no matter how long it’s been part of your cultural tradition. Even if it’s to sever the wife’s spirit-link with the dead man’s ghost.

Madonna, as one of the most influential artists in the world, your failure to apply your faculty of judgment to tribal rape is deplorable. For your comments, you are a piece of trash.

Here’s the full interview.

This is the most re-blog worthy thing I have ever seen Jakob Lodwick post, although I believe she has her reasons (namely that she doesn’t want to piss of the government in charge of deciding whether or not to allow her adoption of David Banda) and that the “tradition” is being slightly misrepresented.