Beyoncé: being photographed in your underwear doesn't help feminism
Next month marks the 50th anniversary of The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan's hugely influential study that helped to spark that pervasive second wave of feminism that – for all its faults and stuttering incompleteness – shaped the western world as most of us know it today.
As a book it was – as Friedan was herself – a flawed advocate of women's rights: Friedan had little apparent interest in women who were anything other than white and upper middle-class. Her homophobia became an embarrassment to the women's movement. Her egotistical paranoia about being ousted as the face of the women's movement was captured with wince-inducing brilliance by Nora Ephron in her 1972 essay, Miami.
The feminist movement never did and never will run smoothly. But Friedan's book, as Stephanie Coontz writes in her recent book, A Strange Stirring, rescued "a generation of intelligent women, sidelined from the world". Whatever its flaws, the publication of The Feminine Mystique remains as much of a landmark in the history of feminism as Emily Davison's death 50 years earlier at the 1913 Epsom Derby.
And so, 50 years on from Friedan, it pleases me to announce that we have a new face to the modern-day feminist movement. That face belongs to none other than Beyoncé Knowles.
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People stay using black women as tools and then scolding them for failing to work the way they want them to.
And the audacity of mentioning Betty fucking Friedan, a white middle-class woman only concerned with other white middle-class women. Like I really just need every white person who has an opinion about how black people, but especially black women live their lives, makes their coins and just generally exist while constantly being pressured into having their bodies used as a political statement for somebody elses movement to just sit the whole fuck down.
/rant
see i could see attacking gq for this bc gq blows and is sexist and the existence of this list is sad but come on. always black women get the fuck out of here.
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CAN'T FIND THE LIE
Like, Rihanna doesn't get as much bile thrown at her in this regard b/c imo she's still seen as a "niche" beauty meanwhile, well, hella white dudes worship Beyonce's beauty.
I wanna frame it!
This needs to be c/p'd in every single poast about feminism in general.
Edited at 2013-01-16 06:40 am (UTC)
I like you
Preach, cageyb.
This is clearly a food post.
gurl
omg when it just keels over and dies in the middle of the water
the one where it just goes "lol bye bitch" and jumps in i can't hahaha
This is called okonomiyaki, or Japanese style pizza. I really, really want to try this.
dammit
;_; what could have been
Tonight has sucked.
FUCKING SEXIST
Are you shitting yourself rn?
Sushi pizza. Kind of want?
/flop 20 something LA resident