I think the pill is great..for those who don't have many sustained side-effects. Unfortunately, it's just not for me. I have tried four different variations of birth control pills, and my side effects were pretty awful. I gave up on it many years ago.

If my breasts looked like that I would never put a shirt on.

Literally do not care about your ancestry, ethnic identity or your family or where you live, except that you are white and you are claiming to know the exact type of oppression a black woman experiences and you give yourself the right to police her language based on these assumptions. I don't care if you have a white…

I mean, you sound more dumb than butt-hurt, but keep crying those white tears and telling black people what type of oppression they face because you, with your .5% Scottish ancestry, obviously know better.

And my point is, has she personally been dehumanized by this word? Has she personally been attacked by this word?

The rape line is not okay, but to trivialize the rest of Nicki Minjaj and her career as just selling out and 'following the steps of Kesha' is wrong. Nevermind her astounding success, listen to her in interviews, watch her, she's in control of herself. She's not a puppet. She's the boss, she's tough, and she's at the…

you really don't see the blatant racism of what you wrote? you're either incredibly obtuse or a piece of shit

And, by the way, the n-word has still continually been used as a slur to this day. Yes, it started with slavery — but it didn't end with slavery. I'm really not sure why you're even choosing this historical example at all, and as someone who will NEVER feel the brunt and pain of being a black person who is called the…

You sound plenty butt-hurt already. Do you honestly fucking think that you needed to be picking cotton in the south to be called a nigger? Here's £5 (since you are of Scottish descent but not actually Scottish. My husband just loves people like you). Go buy a clue.

You have no idea if someone has used that word against her negatively but she is in her 30s and grew up in NYC so I'm going to go with probably. It's not a word that stopped being used as a pejorative after the slaves were freed. Also honkey and cracker are not even a tiny bit comparable to nigger but I will enjoy…

Personally, I'd rather see a more in-depth discussion of the song, because it's about much more than the rape reference, which I don't appreciate, to be clear. I don't think discussions about music have to be "This is 100 percent bad" or "This is 100 percent good."

A post discussing some valid critiques of a successful black woman and the comments section devolves into shitting on rap music, making fun of her style and presentation, and declarative statements about how she isn't talented anyway.

This song is actually very empowering for young women, especially black women. What she actually talks about in this song is how some men not all, try to act big and present themselves as"ballers" and kings putting themselves up on a pedestal above women, when they actually are lames and doing stupid criminal things…

Now, I understand the issues raised, BUT this is one of the first rap songs I've heard to go after men in the same way many male rappers go at women. Obviously that's not the feminist ideal, but it's hardly promoting the patriarchy.

In the lyrics it's pretty obvious that she's talking to men, and trying to turn the tables on them by saying that she doesn't want their money, their time, their attention or their help because she's doing it all herself. Then she takes the final bit of power away from them by positioning herself as the dominant…

No. Not all of the time. Do better.

Did anyone else interpret this as a mirroring of the male gaze?

I LOATHE that rap line, but the song is good. It's awesome, actually. She wouldn't be doing this if she didn't want to. She is who she is, so let her be. People evolve and change. #teambarbie