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Originally posted by PULSE.
I'm sorry but, Beyonce is already one of thee most respected women/artists in the WORLD and did it WITHOUT dumbing down her talent with songs like that. You don't have to act "ratchet/hood" to get respect if anything that would prove stereotypes right that blk women are ghetto. Why do you have to act like a man to gain respect. That's what's wrong with this GEN today ppl have things so backwards. So women should act ratchet? Then why do ya'll bash Rihanna and others for acting that way? It doesn't make any sense to me. Calling women b*t*hes is NOT empowering. When you're GREAT you don't need to boast about it (which she is), it speaks. I LOVE B, but can't rock with her on this one. Let's just leave it alone. It's pointless.
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I didn't say she did this to gain respect, and I never once used the term "ratchet". Bey isn't acting "ratchet" if you even fully know what that means, by recording this song. Lastly, I didn't say she NEEDS to act like a man to gain respect. You just contradicted yourself because Bey already has the most respect out of anyone in her generation. Therefore that was not the point of this song.
You are mixing the content of the song with the purpose of the song. The purpose-She made this song to push the envelope of what female RnB/pop artists can do and to play with gender norms.
The content- finally telling Rihanna, Keri, Tamar etc. to pay homage and be respectful. And even that is not about gaining respect from them cuz she knows they won't "bow down" meaning lay off of her. It's about addressing them finally and being direct about it. It's about standing up for herself. Now is that the only way she can stand up for herself? No. But that's the way SHE chose to, so you're just going to have to deal with that.
Lastly, it's very ignorant to call this dumbing down Bey's talent. It seems like you have no respect for the culture Bey comes from or the hip-hop culture. Songs like this are not "beneath" her. I for one never bash Rihanna etc. for the kind of songs she makes. I only bash the other girls because they are not talented so no it's not true at ALL that I would bash another artist if they made a song like this (as long as they had the credentials and talent to make it).
You strike me as the type of person to get hung up on words too much. You are so hung up on the fact that Bey said bitch multiple times that you're missing the entire message and how Bey stepping out like this (the way a male rapper would) is extremely empowering for women who have consistently been made to feel like we can only be polite, act "lady like", can't boast, can't stick up for ourselves (it always has to be a man to rescue us). With this track Bey is being the male and the female. She is everything.
MTE.
