Seems to be a really slow news cycle these past few days. I’ve been surfing around all the major news sites and all I can find is grisly stories about babies being cut out of dead women and bus riding cats. Oh, and stories about Madonnas biceps. Apparently, Madonna has been spending a lot of time working out.

I don’t know ya’ll. On the one hand, I won’t deny having an immediate reaction to those pictures (ay, dios mio, Madonna, what are you doing to yourself girl?), but on the other hand, in light of the stark picture of how horribly and dehumanizing Michael Jackson was treated throughout his life time only to find out that the man was suffering from serious skin conditions, drug abuse, loneliness and god knows what else brought on by the evils of fame–I kinda feel like these pictures are exploitative. They reduce Madonna to her biceps.

And sure, Madonna is one of the biggest Latinophiles out there–but whatever may or may not be wrong with her, does she deserve to have her entire humanity reduced to the state of her arms? Does she deserve to be turned into another “wacko” so that the public can feel better about itself?