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I adore Royalan and every post he makes but I need to respond to this:
What constitutes "owning it" in the first place? Is it walking around a Walmart in the same skimpy clothes as your videos? Is it constantly reminding the press and your fans that you love sex and slathering your pooch all over a hardwood floor set?
Or is "owning it" simply the fact that they're DOING it in the first place? Beyonce owns it by actually being skimpy in her videos. It's not like her videos are off the record or meant to be private. Those videos are blasted all over the internet, viewed by millions, and performed by her in similar fashion on stages around the world. That's enough "owning it" to me for me to see that all those women take ownership of their skimpiness well enough.
Insulting Beyonce for carrying herself with dignity even though she's also showed her flirty, dirty side is more of a compliment than an insult. Actually, it IS a compliment, and it's an insult to Christina, and anybody else that you're insinuating are unable to distance their dirty side from their demure, normative, approachable side. Every person has those two sides, and I absolutely appreciate Beyonce for carrying herself with a certain level of class that reminds us that she isn't just a dirty dry-clit whore 24 hours a day. She's a regular woman who likes to be the sexual center of attention one day and an admirable, sweet-seeming woman the next.
And let's not throw out accusations of hypocrisy when Christina Aguilera, of all people, is the most guilty of blaring career inconsistencies in this last decade. Carrying yourself both as a "progressive" voice of the people while simultaneously exuding yourself as a stuck up cunt all the time is a way bigger crime than someone who leaves her sultriness for when the time allows. One of the most cringe-worthy things about Christina Aguilera (out of countless others to choose from, sorry) is that she thinks she can get away with preaching for equality and free expression while also being so obscenely unlikable, rude, and career-lazy that her entire agenda is nullified, and nobody takes her seriously because of it. Beyonce is passionate about social issues just like Christina is, except people take her a bit more seriously because outside of the sexualized videos there is still a woman who has enough passion and sense to know that there's a time and place for being sultry. It's called being a normal person. And she isn't even making claims of being holier-than-thou in the first place! She just doesn't dress like a Chlamydia monster at an inauguration ceremony. If you want people to see you for more than just a giant pair of breasts, then you need to take advantage of your versatility. And it's a damn good thing that she's versatile.
It seems like you're insulting Beyonce because she's not being one-dimensional enough.
It's simple: Christina's not a hypocrite. Christina takes ownership.
Of course, Christina wears skimpy clothing (or no clothing at all), has posed for men's magazines and has plenty of songs about raunchy sex. But she owns this, and it is through this ownership that she flexes her own brand of power. Xtina is not the only one who does this. Britney owns it (or did). Gaga owns it. Madonna owns it. Rihanna owns it. Lana Del Rey owns it. Hell, fucking Ke$ha owns it. I think Xtina, above most, has made it a fundamental pillar of who she is, but I won't try to say she's the only one.
Beyonce is constantly in a state of wanting to be seen as a pillar of class, humility and propriety one week, and smearing her Illuminati-encrusted labia across my flat screen the next week. She has written songs and given interviews where she has prided herself on being a different type of female that doesn't have to stoop to peddling her goodies to get attention, all the while hoping the world doesn't realize that she has songs, videos and photo spreads where she does exactly that. well, sorry Beyonce, but that makes you a liar and a fake, and some of us aren't too far up your ass to call you out on it. If Beyonce wants to pop her pussy to the beat of an 808 to make her mark, so be it. Go right ahead and exercise your rights, girlfriend. But she does not get to claim to be a different type of star than the girls who pop their twats for coins and have the balls to be upfront about that. And she certainly doesn't have the wherewithal to bitch and moan about men defining sexy and the sexual objectification of women while directly contributing to that reality without being called out for being a hypocrite. That's what makes Beyonce different from the other pop stars. She tries to have her cake and eat it, too.
And these two twits have the nerve to talk about Beyonce and agency? This is the woman who had to invent a bullshit alter-ego to explain away her provocative stage acts. Because, you know, it couldn't be Beyonce. No, she's too innocent. It's Sasha Fierce.
And it's funny that you agree with the part of that article that I take the most issue with, because it asserts this bullshit idea that Beyonce should be given a pass for making her ass clap on my television screen because she's doing it "for her career." I'm sorry, but statements like those are just misguided and silly; and they're the kinds of statements that anti-feminists look to when they wanted to make the false claim that the modern feminist movement is less about being pro-women and more about being anti-men. It's obvious that Beyonce twerks for top 10 singles and to further her career. The part that I'm missing is where someone's putting a gun up to her fucking head and forcing her to do it.
Knock Knock Ding Dong Extra Extra Read All About It: Beyonce is making the choice to bill herself as a sex kitten and splay her breasts across magazine covers. No one's forcing her to do it and, more importantly, it's not as if this is the only avenue by which a talented female can become successful in this business. There are PLENTY of female entertainers who have achieved success in this industry without going nude at the sight of a flash bulb. Again, I reiterate that there is nothing wrong with being provocative, I for one think that there is GREAT power in it. But there's everything wrong with being provocative and trying to act like you're better than or that you're not contributing to "the problem" or that it's somehow "different" when you do it. And that's really what that "she does it for her career" bullshit is: people making up an excuse to continue to hold Beyonce up on a pedestal and claim that she's "classy" and different from all the Ke$ha's of the world when, really, she's exactly the same. Oh, poor Beyonce. She has to be super sexy and skanky to further her career in the male-dominated industry. She's really not like this, she just has to do these things to get ahead. Ch...please
What constitutes "owning it" in the first place? Is it walking around a Walmart in the same skimpy clothes as your videos? Is it constantly reminding the press and your fans that you love sex and slathering your pooch all over a hardwood floor set?
Or is "owning it" simply the fact that they're DOING it in the first place? Beyonce owns it by actually being skimpy in her videos. It's not like her videos are off the record or meant to be private. Those videos are blasted all over the internet, viewed by millions, and performed by her in similar fashion on stages around the world. That's enough "owning it" to me for me to see that all those women take ownership of their skimpiness well enough.
Insulting Beyonce for carrying herself with dignity even though she's also showed her flirty, dirty side is more of a compliment than an insult. Actually, it IS a compliment, and it's an insult to Christina, and anybody else that you're insinuating are unable to distance their dirty side from their demure, normative, approachable side. Every person has those two sides, and I absolutely appreciate Beyonce for carrying herself with a certain level of class that reminds us that she isn't just a dirty dry-clit whore 24 hours a day. She's a regular woman who likes to be the sexual center of attention one day and an admirable, sweet-seeming woman the next.
And let's not throw out accusations of hypocrisy when Christina Aguilera, of all people, is the most guilty of blaring career inconsistencies in this last decade. Carrying yourself both as a "progressive" voice of the people while simultaneously exuding yourself as a stuck up cunt all the time is a way bigger crime than someone who leaves her sultriness for when the time allows. One of the most cringe-worthy things about Christina Aguilera (out of countless others to choose from, sorry) is that she thinks she can get away with preaching for equality and free expression while also being so obscenely unlikable, rude, and career-lazy that her entire agenda is nullified, and nobody takes her seriously because of it. Beyonce is passionate about social issues just like Christina is, except people take her a bit more seriously because outside of the sexualized videos there is still a woman who has enough passion and sense to know that there's a time and place for being sultry. It's called being a normal person. And she isn't even making claims of being holier-than-thou in the first place! She just doesn't dress like a Chlamydia monster at an inauguration ceremony. If you want people to see you for more than just a giant pair of breasts, then you need to take advantage of your versatility. And it's a damn good thing that she's versatile.
It seems like you're insulting Beyonce because she's not being one-dimensional enough.