“We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn’t a reality yet,” wrote Beyoncé in The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back From the Brink. “We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible… We must demand that we receive 100 percent of the opportunities.”
At Sunday night’s Grammy Awards, Beyoncé took the stage barely covered in lingerie, dripping wet and enveloped in smoke. Her recently slimmed body was on full display, the product of the oxymoronic “vegan-fast” (if it’s a fast, does it matter that it’s vegan?). She spread her legs and chair-danced, revealing glittery nipple pasties, while husband Jay Z, fully clothed in a tuxedo, stroked her rear and smiled smugly. Once the queen of class, Beyoncé has bowed to the stalest of pop female conventions: the stripper act sells.
Is Beyoncé an advocate for female empowerment or is she Jay Z’s sex kitten? At first glance it might look like Beyoncé is simply taking the Miley Cyrus route toward getting attention at an awards show.
Oh noes ! Even Forbes is dragging for her faux feminism.
Bey’s sexy display recalled Miley Cyrus’ raunchy stage romp with Robin Thicke during the August MTV Video Music Awards — providing new fuel for scolds.
“Bad taste, vulgarity and outrageous performances are the new norm,” says Melissa Henson of the Parents Television Council. “They can’t rightly be viewed as family events anymore; they’re something you DVR and watch after the kids go to bed.”
Lest anyone forget, Cyrus, 20, was dirty-dancing with a married man. Beyoncé, 32, was dancing with her husband, after all.
“This is part and parcel of where things are going as as whole for award shows,” counters Henson. “[Artists] are trading their sexuality rather than their vocal ability.”
Is she Viley level desperate now ? Someone hold me. I am shaking as I bawl my eyes out.
To say Bey is a feminist or not is still uncertain. Feminists aren't even sure for themselves if raunchiness/being scantily clad eye candy is liberating and empowering or degrading and amounting one's worth strictly to sex.
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