Maybe it’s because I read Cara’s On Prison Rape and Complacency immediately before watching Telephone for the first time, but I just can’t be comfortable with the Bitch Prison. I am literally incapable of viewing the prison scenes without simultaneously thinking about prison rape, and it makes me not able to enjoy the video any more.
I don’t know why, with Bad Romance, I can think about human trafficking but then also move on to think about all the other stuff in that video (like: I’m a free bitch, baby!) but with Telephone I just get stuck. There isn’t even any prison rape in Telephone, not really! I just keep feeling the unspoken threat of it.
It kind of makes me sad, because I means I have a hard time getting behind Sady’s super-excellent Telephone post, and I want to like that post. I really, really want to! But: prison rape. It is the only thing my brain can think.
