Lesploitation

To highlight their cluelessness, lesploitation was becoming the single man's obsession, and people like Jillian thought that two gay men would find a three-way with a straight woman as entertaining.

Kissed A Girl chart topper Perry is tipped to continue her own bout of controversy using her ‘lesploitation pop’ and image to keep in the limelight.

Thus “Telephone” inverts the power dynamics of media reception, where the empowering or queer reading of such products as lesploitation films are relegated as “readings against the grain” or appropriations.