Amber Rose is one of these weird people I have really conflicting feelings about. On one hand, I think she makes a lot of really good points about feminism and the way women get treated. On the other, she seems to have her head a mile up her own ass and her feminism is often selfish and lacks inclusiveness.
She recently went on an Instagram rant making points I both agreed with and disagreed with, because apparently she refuses to ever let me fully like her.
In her post, Amber makes some really good points about not being given credit where credit is due, but also takes a lot of credit she doesn’t deserve.
Amber writes:
This is not about the artists and talent in these videos. I am extremely frustrated. Every single year I put my blood sweat and tears into my slutwalk. I did not create the SlutWalk movement. I did, however bring it to the forefront for this generation. People remind me of this daily through their deliberate attacks and evil comments…I do interview after interview to bring more awareness about the equality issues we deal with as women and people…Body shaming, fat shaming, slut shaming and victim shaming. I take a lot of punches and a lot of scrutiny and I’m cool with that cuz I do it for the greater good. I also DON’T get recognition AT ALL but God Damn Brush smh. I remember a few years back I used to put #MILFIN and #MILF on all of my posts only to see a music video about milfs that I was not invited to be in…cool. I get it. I was an actual stripper, I’m not worthy…Two men make a song that said “you’re such a fucking hoe I love it” but if I refer to myself as a hoe, take back any derogatory label and turn it into a positive or be confident in my sexuality in anyway mufuckas need 30 showers…
Now, of course Amber Rose didn’t invent the Slut Walk, but as a public figure she’s definitely brought a lot of attention to it, for sure. So I’ll give her a 50% on that one I guess. The song about “you’re such a fucking hoe I love it” is Kanye West’s new song. The same Kanye West who said he needed to get 30 showers after dating Amber Rose because she was such a hoe, so I do 100% get where she’s coming from with that. However, when she brings up the whole MILF thing (she’s referring to Fergie’s MILF $ music video…which funny enough features Kim Kardashian) and talks like she invented MILF and only wasn’t asked to be in a video about MILFs because she used to be a stripper, well, it’s then that I have to roll my damn eyes at this bitch. Honey, unless you are ’90s teen comedy American Pie you can take not credit for making MILF a thing in pop culture. MILF has been a thing everyone has said since 1999, a good decade before people knew who you were, so please back the fuck up on this.
Next Amber Rose will be out here saying she coined the phrase “Suck me, beautiful.” I just can’t.