Beyonce dragged by feminist intellectual. Do you agree?
In her recent essay for The Hollywood Reporter, renown feminist icon and cultural commentator Camille Paglia dragged Beyonce when discussing feminism through the ages in the music industry.
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The entertainment industry has seen feminist spurts come and go. Helen Reddy's 1972 smash hit "I Am Woman" became the worldwide anthem of second-wave feminism. In 1985, Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox did the slamming duet "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves." The Spice Girls encapsulated sex-positive third-wave feminism with their 1997 manifesto Girl Power! Performing at the 2014 Video Music Awards, Beyonce flashed "FEMINIST" in giant letters behind her, but questions were raised about the appropriation of that word by a superstar whose career has always been managed by others, first her parents and now her domineering husband, Jay Z.
This is such a dumb point though. The fact that her parents managed her career when she was younger does not invalidate her feminism at all. Being a feminist doesn't mean that you have to reject anything related to males. It reminds me of people bitching because she named her tour "Mrs Carter Tour" like wtf
It makes me sad that most of y'all don't even know what a feminist is, especially in a time that is really important in regards to moving to equality between men and women.