Hays Code Of Moral Conduct By Katy Perry

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Unfortunately, this video exclusively targets a specific privileged class, evident in Katy Perry’s own privileges as a thin, white, upper class, able-bodied, heterosexual, cisgender woman, which excludes the large demographic of individuals who do not reside nor identify within these constricting binaries. These dynamics are evident by the imagery and dialogue expressed in the video, which would surely fail the 1930s Hays Code for violating standards of “moral conduct” (Zeisler, 2008, pg. 29). Perry’s thin, white body also allows her to more comfortably strip on camera, as she meets mainstream ideal beauty standards that nonwhite and/or larger women of color do not. These women were historically, as well as continuously denied existence or