mochibuni:paintwithwords:andreagoldston:CAN WE STOP PITTING WOMEN AGAINST EACH OTHER? THAT WOULD BE
mochibuni:paintwithwords:andreagoldston:CAN WE STOP PITTING WOMEN AGAINST EACH OTHER? THAT WOULD BE NICE.BUT WHAT WE CAN DO IS NOTE THAT THE WOMAN OF COLOR SOLD ALL OF THESE RECORDS WITHOUT ACCESSING THE NEOLIBERAL ORDER IN THE SAME WAY AS THESE WHITE WOMEN; SHE DID SO WITHOUT BEING A RACIST, A TOKENIZER, OBJECTIFYING OF OTHER WOMEN’S BODIES, OR PURPORTING TO SPEAK FOR OTHER GROUPS OF MARGINALIZED, OPPRESSED-IN-WAYS-SHE-IS-NT GROUPS OF PEOPLE; SHE CREATED THE FEMINIST ALBUM OF CONTEMPORENEITY BY HARVESTING BUT NOT DAMAGING TODAY’S SALIENT CULTURAL CAPITAL, WITHOUT HAVING TO SHAME, DEGRADE, OR REJECT ANYONE FOR LIKING AND BEING ATTRACTED TO POP CULTURAL PHENOMENA AND EPHEMERA.Has Beyonce retracted her statements about feminism? That she refuses to call herself a feminist because she doesn’t want to be associated with “those” kinds of women?The interview is at least a year old and people can certainly change their tune quickly, and I hope she has.Edit: Oh wait, it was the interview where she clarified she’s a “good feminist” because she loves her husband and is happily married. Yeah. My memory is bad.She wasn’t hedging though. She had been insulted by feminists for calling her tour the Mrs. Carter tour, because some feminists felt that was dis-empowering, and she handled that criticism with a lot of grace. In that context this quote isn’t “I’m a feminist, but I don’t hate men.” It’s “I’m a feminist and I love being married too and I fuck the people who think those things are mutually exclusive.” But you know, nicer. Because she has more tact than I. See also. -- source link
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