You Gotta Fight For Your Rights

Does Gaga Take It A Little Too Far?
Editorial By: Kimberly Caporale

Kimberly Caporale

On September 12 MTV hosted their annual awards show. Each year there is some type of controversy, last year it was Kanye West saying Taylor Swift didn’t deserve the award she was given. This year the talk of the VMA’s didn’t occur on stage. It occurred with Lady Gaga’s choice of outfit: a meat suit and accessories.

Lady Gaga explained her choice of attire to Ellen Degeneres, “If we don't stand up for what we believe in and if we don't fight for our rights, pretty soon we're going to have as much rights as the meat on our own bones.”

I agree that it is crucial for everyone to stand up for what they believe in. That is one of the most important things one must learn in college. Students no longer have parents over their shoulders telling them what to do,

Lady Gaga (Photo credit: MTV.com)

it is the students responsibility to handle issues with roommates and professors on their own, or seek out those who can help them. And if a student doesn’t make this adjustment quickly it can change the course of their lives, from changing majors to transferring.

Not only is standing up for what you believe in important in college, but isn’t that what we were being taught in school when we learned about bullies? Bullies are becoming an even bigger problem in schools and kids shouldn’t have to deal with that while receiving an education. Although if we don’t learn how to tell someone no then, who are we ever going to stand up for our moral compose when we are adults? Our generation is expected to lead the world in the coming years and if we can’t stand up for what is right, then we will have a serious problem on our hands. Not only as a nation, but as a world society.

Although Lady Gaga’s stance may seem radical, maybe she is onto something. Could all our rights be taken away if we don’t stand up for them? Well if we aren’t willing to stand up for them we obviously don’t need them. Regardless she has successfully managed to keep herself in the media light once more and topped her own scale of out there.