Beyonce
Some people have complained that Beyonce’s most recent album is too sexual, but I think that those people are idiots. Beyonce’s self-titled album has become a notorious feminist album with Beyonce singing about loving having sex with her husband, wanting to get married, being jealous, feeling the weight of our societies beauty expectations on women, the joys of motherhood, getting married but still being a top bad bitch, and, of course, waking up like this.
In the song “Bow Down/Flawless”, she sample’s?Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s feminist speech which sums up my own personal feminist beliefs perfectly:
We teach girls to shrink themselves
To make themselves smaller
We say to girls
“You can have ambition
But not too much
You should aim to be successful
But not too successful
Otherwise you will threaten the man”
Because I am female
I am expected to aspire to marriage
I am expected to make my life choices
Always keeping in mind that
Marriage is the most important
Now marriage can be a source of
Joy and love and mutual support
But why do we teach to aspire to marriage
And we don’t teach boys the same?
We raise girls to each other as competitors
Not for jobs or for accomplishments
Which I think can be a good thing
But for the attention of men
We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings
In the way that boys are
Feminist: the person who believes in the social
Political, and economic equality of the sexes
ninjamynci says
You and half these morons are confusing feminism and equality.
1. Beyonce is the most appalling female role model. Her career is built on the quality of her arse, not her music. Her lyrical content centres around being a sex object ‘ in charge’ – newsflash! Men don’t care as long as they get laid – or being a petty, jealous and vengeful bitch and she’s married to a misogynistic cunt.
2. Feminism is all about misandry and getting privileges for being female, while adhering to double standards (#yesallwomen, I’m talking to you. NO. Not all women and most tweets are girls getting up themselves because a man glancing in their direction is apparently sexism but posting pictures of a half naked man with a graphic description of what you want to do to him on Facebook 3 minutes later is empowering. Fuck that shit, idiots)
3. Feminism can’t accept men and women are not the same. They are. Take a look down your pants for starters.
I usually like or guilty-pleasure like most articles but this is just pandering bollocks.
Alissa says
To the poster above me:
1. You cannot be a sex object “in charge.” That defies the definition of being an object.
2. Feminism is ABSOLUTELY about getting privileges. But not in the way you think. It’s about getting the privileges that men already have, not getting privileges separate from men. The example you gave about women using the yes all women tag then posting graphic sexual comments about men isn’t feminism. They may call themselves feminists, but they are incorrect. Do not bash feminists just because some people who regard themselves feminists don’t understand what it means. Feminism is equality.
3. No shit we have different organs. That’s the fucking point of being different genders. You know what’s NOT the point of being different genders? Being regarded as different in levels of importance. Try reproducing without women. Try being a hetero/bi/pan/etc-sexual man and enjoying yourself without women. Two genders exist for a reason, and they are both required in reproduction for a reason. Long ago, hard labor was more important than organization in society or intelligence or any other type of personality-based skills. Men naturally find hard labor easier, there’s no denying that, and that’s a big part of why they were seen as superior. However, now hard labor jobs such as construction are seen as no more important than intelligence or personality based jobs, so why are women still “inferior”? They are no worse are intelligence or personality based jobs, so there’s no biological or natural reason for them to be looked down on.
goodchlid says
I like this post a lot. I wonder why feminism has become so “taboo” as well, when it *really* does just mean men and women deserve equal rights and respect.
As for the the comment left by ninjamynci…well, let’s just say the KKK uses the same argument (i.e. pointing out physical differences to explain why different groups of people aren’t the same and do not deserve equal rights) to justify persecuting blacks, gays, and Jews.