I probably watched my first Muppet Show in 1977. Aged eleven at the time and I was a Miss Piggy fan from the start.<\/p>\n
Since I grew up in an area of Germany where carnival is generously celebrated every year, I from then on turned into a teenage version of Miss Piggy. Every year I would fasten my lovingly created pig\u00b4s ears to a ribbon in my long blond hair, attached a pig snout with a pink elastic band over my nose behind my ears and stitched a pink pig\u2019s tail made of painted foam rubber onto my Mom\u00b4s discarded evening dress. Then I would acquire a noisy snorting and a poignant \u201cmoi\u201d instead of I or me and thus my annual tribute to my favorite pig.<\/p>\n
For Miss Piggy is an accomplished lady and yet heavenly rude. She is probably the most inspiring diva in the world and yes \u2013 she loves a frog. Smaller, quieter, more delicate and frailer than she\u2026 As if a Valkyrie had lost her heart to an elf. It is he whom she showers with her luscious love \u2013 including his bright green felt skin and webbed feet \u2013 as happens to be his nature. For this prince she happily becomes a furious queen and follows her heart without compromise even crossing zoological boundaries.<\/p>\n
That she has now received a prize for feminist art is more than appropriate \u2013 even though she is more the artwork than the creator. She is the product of the perhaps most refined and endearing drag-act in the world \u2013 for behind Miss Piggy are actually male puppeteers and male voices.<\/p>\n
This fortunate union of male and female qualities has been enchanting for more than four decades and is just as ageless as the aggressive femininity she occasionally expresses in a literally knock out way. Miss Piggy never has a problem being Miss Piggy and with her doubtless knowledge about the woman in the pig, she has made a most valuable contribution to feminine identity in our media age \u2013 in her own unique way. Therefore I find it particularly appropriate that this prize also honors the woman in the animal \u2013 it gives me the feeling in turn that in a certain way the animal in us women is being honored too!<\/p>\n
Long live Miss Piggy \u2013 who might have to fight with being a slightly bit overweight but never ever with the ageing process!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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