Some light magazine reading

Awww, Dan in NME. I <3 the ickle punka. That monkey is going to heaven, man.

So I'm sitting here waiting for something to happen at work, and to meet now local!Ruby for dinner, and so I'm reading the pride issue of Out, in which I find an essay about whether Madonna is "over" as a gay icon if not as an icon in general, and I find this paragraph:

. . . in an age when gay people have themselves long since settled down and moved to New Mexico or New Jersey, Madonna's current book-signing aura of twee-and-tweed presents problems. It's hard to shift gears from prim middle-aged author at Barnes & Noble to bust-a-move siren onstage without causing some pop-culture dissonance. And motherhood, by making direct sex appeal with her audience less believable, has removed some of her heat. Madonna used to be Mary Magdalene; now she's Mary.

EXSQUEEZE ME? What sort of Madonna/Whore (pun intended) bullshit is this? Isn't it really Madonna who might be able to finally, as a female, sexual icon, break through this bogus dichotomy and be a Hot Mama? Have you seen those pictures of her on the tour? Unimpressed, Out. The gay community--and I mean just the gay community, just the boys please--should be beyond this sort of pigeonholing of women, but I have to admit, I'm sadly unsurprised.