The Madonna minority

[Skanky Vamp]

from Deadspin

Last night in New York’s Washington Square Park, Madonna performed a “surprise” concert in support of Hillary Clinton. I don’t know a single thing that happened there except for this: Madonna said she considers herself a minority, and then her audience openly laughed in her face.

Her quote, captured on video and uploaded to Twitter:

There’s a lot of people out there that don’t believe that women have a voice, or that minorities have a voice. And I do consider myself a minority. I do. Women are marginalized, let’s face it. As far as I’m concerned we still live in an extremely chauvinistic...

After Madonna called herself a minority, someone in the crowd audibly exclaimed “what?” Laughs from other audience members then prompted her to double down on the quote.
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I don't know if I would really agree with Madonna claiming she is a minority either. It's a very, um, liberal, use of the word. Yes, she is a female but... I would think far from the "average" female.

 

[Bluebird]

I think she should keep her mouth shut. She completely undermines any of the liberal views she has.

 

[GwenRaiden]

She is one of the hugest idiots.

 

[The Bronze]

She is a minority. She's part of the super rich minority.

 

[brinkster130]

She totally believes it. Remember this :

from Rolling Stone (feb 2015)

"No one would dare to say a degrading remark about being black or dare to say a degrading remark on Instagram about someone being gay," Madonna told Rolling Stone. "But my age — anybody and everybody would say something degrading to me. And I always think to myself, why is that accepted? What's the difference between that and racism, or any discrimination? They're judging me by my age. I don't understand. I'm trying to get my head around it."

Guys, her life is HARD! She's so mistreated.
/sarcasm

 

[Buffy Summers]

She's obviously not a minority, BUT there is something to be said for the point that some things it is socially acceptable to discriminate on, such as age or weight.

 

[brinkster130]

She's obviously not a minority, BUT there is something to be said for the point that some things it is socially acceptable to discriminate on, such as age or weight.

100%. She just has zero self awareness comparing the trolling she gets on Instagram to the discrimination (some) minorities live with on a day to day basis.

 

[Ethan Reigns]

For all her supposed IQ of 140, she has made some dumb moves. She released "Truth or Dare" a few years back that made her look like a complete bully. She may have meant a minority of women who have achieved a position of self-made wealth, but if you don't explain things like that, people just assume you are an idiot.

 

[November]

Aw I like good ol' Madds. Always stirring the pot with something rather.

 

[Athena]

She can't claim to be a minority. She's a white female in her fifties. There's loads of 'em around!

I get she's trying to make a point, but she's not putting it across all that well. She can't compare ageism in the music industry to many years and incidents of race/gender/sexual orientation discrimination.... 🙄 Sometimes I think she just lives in Madonnaland.

 

[thrasherpix]

I have seen well to do (even wealthy) white males (often of a dominant religion) claim they're the ones who are oppressed. And mean it.

I suppose it's an honest mistake if you combine a big enough ego with the misconception that your own personal subjective reality is an objective reality clear to everyone else (which also means dismissing the personal experiences of others since they aren't your own experiences).