I'm not really a fan of her music so your quote was totally lost on me. And I didn't know she has a song with lyrics about her rapist. Yikes. You're right, there's more to this than just fun and pop, and that's why I'm bringing attention to Beyonce's feminist hypocrisy. I don't think selling records with sexuality…
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Well, I am a black woman. I am surrounded by black women. Call them a "bitch" and see how far it gets you. Just because Beyonce does it does not mean she speaks for black women.
I like everything you said, except the 'kind of' part. You're softening your tone with that. It's not just disingenuous, it's hypocritical. And dangerous.
So if she didn't wear "a crazy-ass cage thong" in public and sing about sucking her husband's dick, she would be "suppress[ing] her sexuality"? Wtf? Look, I'm all for acknowledging that women have sex drives just as strong as men's. But it's kind of disingenuous to make millions from exploiting a market for female…
Beyonce sells stereotypes of black women to white women. Fact.
If we're going to continue with these Beyonce articles can we at least talk about how beyonce picks up and puts down her blackness according to her money. Her constant appeals to white standards of beauty from Dangerously in Love to Beyonce. Colorism. No? ok just asking
stop making pop stars into role models, for fuck's sake. and i don't have a problem with beyoncé being sexual. i have a problem with beyoncé being touted as some kind of fierce trailblazer when she's nothing more than a manufactured pop act, who has always depended on men - first her father, and now her mogul husband…
I guess better to have young women look up to pop and movie stars like Beyonce and Lena Dunham than Bell Hooks, Octavia Butler, and Betty Freidan but, hey, better than nothing, I suppose.
Excuse me, ma'am. This is America.
'Round here we call this a moose knuckle.
Her body may be amazing, but her personality sucks ass. I'll keep my personality and curves if being skinny means I have to judge other moms.
For the record my excuse is that spaghetti sandwiches are delicious.
The answer depends on if you ask a CEO, or the people who work under them.
ETA: i'm not going to say which is which.
Bill O is a huge bag of cold limp tools, but I don't see how a woman who wildly jiggles her ass at the slightest provocation is furthering any sort of "feminist" cause. Unless "feminism" is synonymous with "giving men exactly what they want to see".
Was everybody high?
But he's also this guy!
You must, you must! Pretty in Pink is the BEST. James Spader is sublime - although his character, Blane, as RealBrightEyes said, is the worst, and really exemplifies '80s WASP douchebaggery. Everyone is really fantastic in that film, however, though my true love is for Annie Potts as record shop owner Iona, who is…
Sadly, he is now this guy: