Because feminism is clearly a movement where we exclude certain women- and ONLY women- based on their physical appearance choices. Only women who rebel against 'sexiness' and 'beauty' qualify.

I will attempt to explain the definition of racism, and I'm sure you will ignore it and/or proclaim that I have no idea what I'm talking about, but here goes:

Who said you have to love and worship her? It's true that when people (usually white women) who don't quite get how intersectionality and the interlocking systems of oppression work criticize her, very often other women (often WOC) have to explain that to them. These white women then think, that because they are being…

But...why would actual royalty merit more praise than Beyonce? They inherit titles and are born into wealth while Beyonce worked her way up from the working class. Tell me you can understand why people admire her for that at least?

I'm just going to copy and paste a comment i left on another thread because quite frankly I'm tired of answering the same question for youmainpage commenters who just don't "get" Beyonce (i.e. this confident and successful black chick is too uppity for my liking).

Because she's a very successful black woman who actively try's to get other women interested in femenist issues? She made an album that centred around being a black woman and sexuality? This article talks about it better than I do:

Yes but shes a black woman. Marriage means different things to Black women compared to white women. That's why intersectionality is so important.

The name of her tour is both an ironic nod to her own independence and a celebration of her family. But, regardless of her intentions, referring to herself an Mrs. Carter does not mean she can't be a feminist.

I love Beyonce, I really do. I don't really know if she is a feminist or not...that's for her to decide (and then for people to judge I suppose, who enjoy that sort of thing). What I love about her is that she is a very smart business-person and she has built up a huge career and that is not something to sneeze at.…

I dunno, maybe because she calls herself a feminist, quotes feminist literature in her songs, participates in campaigns to try to inspire girls and has a song literally called girls run the world....but hey....what do I know?

She calls herself a feminist. I agree she's overhyped and I'm not a particularly huge fan of her music, but it is pretty cool that she's out there showing you can be straight, conventionally attractive, married, a mother ... and feminist. Too often celebs defer to the dumb "oh, no, I'm not a feminist, I like men"…

Nope, its because your ilk make me laugh till my sides hurt. And I never said you. "Turns out Miley was more intelligent than all of THEM." I was just pointing out that Elle won. Why would she fire her PR firm? for getting her almost 100 million in free publicity? Making her more money than she knows what to do with?…

I love Miley. The more unwarranted vitriol she gets the more I like her. She is clearly more intelligent than anyone bad mouthing her. Forbes estimates that all of the "outraged" people made Miley almost 100 mil in free advertising last year and Forbes predicts she will be back among the top money earners this year. I…

I love her and she is rad. Forget the haters, cuz somebody loves her and it's me. Maybe we need to stop dissecting every single thing the girl does like she's running for office. She's a pop star doing pop star things, she's beautiful and young and doing her thing and we need to cut her some slack instead of…

Are more people going to lose their shit over the inconsequential things that come out of this woman's mouth? HAHAHA!!! This has my sides hurting. Forbes estimated that Miley got almost 100 million dollars in free publicity last year from all of those "outraged" people. Forbes expects her to be back among the top…

because it makes her feel good, it's who she is, it helps her express herself...and let's not call it dressing like a whore that goes against the whole point.

My favourite thing about this website is when the commenters bitch about someone refusing to call themself a feminist and then bitch when someone does call themself a feminist.

Covering up, avoiding raunch, and being 'modest' in order to be seen as equals and respectable human beings doesn't change the latter either. That's submitting to respectability politics- which are steeped in misogyny, whorephobia, religious chauvinism, and other forms of systematic oppression. It's best if people do…

Sorry, Jezebel commenters, that Beyonce is not worthy enough of espousing such feminist tenets like posting videos of rapes; putting bounties on magazine photo shoots or; framing M&M commercials as examples of rape culture.

Well, you should be "on the feminist train" because you believe in feminism, not because a celebrity is embracing the word. That said, is it really productive to diminish someone's journey into feminism when they're clearly doing what they can to educate themselves and come to their own understanding about equality?