mochibuni:timemachineyeah:mochibuni:paintwithwords:andreagoldston:CAN WE STOP PITTING WOMEN AGAINST
mochibuni:timemachineyeah: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.That still doesn’t sit well with me. I think an argument could be made that it’s a magazine interview and who knows what was omitted, but even with context that wasn’t even addressed or presented in the interview, it still reads as needing to justify or explain. Especially since she hesitated to associate herself with the term at all when initially asked in the interview, according to the interview anyway.If anything, I’m uncomfortable labeling someone and their work feminist when they are clearly uncomfortable with the label.1) Beyonce does call herself a feminist, though. And given the unfair hate she’d received from people who held that label themselves and the fact that she’s a WOC and mainstream feminism has often done WOC disservice, her hesitance is understandable. After getting lots of genuinely extreme flack from people who label themselves feminists, it completely makes sense that she’s see that label as extreme. Notably, she applied it to herself anyway. 2) Click the link, listen to the song. SRSLY.3) “I’m uncomfortable labeling someone and their work feminist when they are clearly uncomfortable with the label.” Someone? Sure. Their work? If someone’s work can be racist or misogynistic unintentionally, then it can damn well be feminist unintentionally as well. Note, though, that in Beyonce’s case it documentably intentional. -- source link
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