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Originally posted by Grin Toll
NOT ONE LIE SPOTTED
Beyonce is a project catered to a male-dominated world feeding into patriarchal social norms and stereotypes. All her material and performance art is sex / relationship / glamor oriented. Girls wanna be her, men wanna be with her and gays buy into her ****.
Her performances are degrading to women, they exploit femininity and sex
Take all of me
I just wanna be the girl you like, girl you like
The kind of girl you like, girl you like
Take all of me
I just wanna be the girl you like, girl you like
The kinda girl you like
Is right here with me
Poor girls looking up to her as a role model
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Originally posted by ElleDriver
Most of these women you listed never implied they were feminists.. They are aware of the fact their biggest strength is their body. Bey on the other hand ,who's supposedly aiming for the equality of the two genders, (which requires women to be portrayed as more than good housewives and sexual objects) exploites her sexuality in order to promote her work and get people interested in her. How is that any different than let's say women in the 50's who played the pin up character for the same reasons I listed? Why must her sexuality be her biggest strength when she could be equally inspirational and respected while using other different aspects of her being? Now, I'm not saying Bey is necessary an anti-femist, but I don't believe she's completely honest about the whole feminism talk.
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So according to you guys a true feminist should never be sexual? Beyoncé can't flaunt her sexuality as she sees fit, she has to adhere to some subjective idea of what a proper feminist should carry herself as, because being empowered and being sexual are incompatible? This bull**** you guys are spewing sounds more sexist and patriarchal than anything else, telling a woman what she should do with her body. Saying she exploits her sexuality to promote her work is a blatant lie, but that's how you're framing it because that's how
you choose to see her. That says more about you than anything else.
And if you guys attempting to police her sexuality are male, then that just adds another layer of irony. Stop trying to disguise your obvious misogyny (and subtle racism since y'all are nowhere to be seen when the subject of white pop stars being too sexual comes up) under the name of "feminism". It's so pathetic and transparent.