Marilyn Manson Research Paper

When the Clinton controversy was brought up on Politically Incorrect, Marilyn Manson piped in with “oral sex is like handshakes and autographs, when you’re a celebrity it’s part of your job” (Manson 1998). Unsurprisingly, throughout the years Marilyn Manson has been an extremely controversial figure. Rumors as wild as Manson removing a rib for sexual purposes have been spread. With a rock-and-roll lifestyle and intense performance, it can be hard to shift the fact from the fiction. In Manson’s shock aesthetic was a dark macabreness set on questioning what we know.
Goth appeared from the remnants of punk in the ‘70s. It sported a romantic obsession with death other dark subjects. Their fashion is dark, yet varied. Paleness is praised, and elegance
loved. Despite being so strange, goth is really quite simple. In goth, gender is more open. Men are allowed to feminine and transgenders are welcomed. Sexuality fits along the same lines. Goth is receptive to LGBTQA+. Goth is just a darkly-inclined openness. Marilyn Manson fits into this with his ideology, reception of sexuality and gender, and fashion.
One of Marilyn Manson’s more controversial aspects was his openness to sexuality and gender, this ties to the goth subculture. When he commented on Clinton on Politically Incorrect Marilyn Manson wore a scarlet red dress. While he didn’t play the skinny red-dress stereotype, casually wearing this dress to a television show disregards traditional gender roles. Perhaps his strongest gender challenge was in the music video for his song “The Dope Show.” In the music video