Stans, your fearless leader King Bey speaks, listen up… At this point man, woman, and child has been captivated by Beyonce’s GQ cover Well just in case you thought Bey was gonna be all bikini and no brains, she takes the time speak on the power of the p-u-$-$-Y woman in today’s society. Get a load of this… Via Guardian On financial empowerment: “Equality is a myth, and for some reason everyone accepts that women don’t make as much money as men do,” she rails. “I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.” Preach sista! Knowles is right: it is ridiculous that American women earn 77 cents to every dollar earned by men. This is almost as ridiculous as, say, a self-professedly powerful female celebrity (“I’m more powerful than my mind can even digest,” announces Knowles) complaining about men defining sexiness in a men’s magazine in which she poses nearly nekkid in seven photos, including one on the cover in which she is wearing a pair of tiny knickers and a man’s shirt so cropped that her breasts are visible. These photos, incidentally, were taken by the bafflingly successful American photographer, Terry Richardson, a man with a penchant for highly sexualised photos of women and who has been repeatedly accused of sexual exploitation and misconduct by young female models, which Richardson has denied. To complain about the sexualization of women in men’s magazines may seem like complaining about the weather. But as Knowles rightly says in relation to the pay gap, the status quo should not just be shruggingly accepted if it is wrong. I never fail to be amazed at the high profile, often A-list women who celebrate their professional success by posing near nekkid on the covers of allegedly classy men’s magazines, such as Esquire and GQ, and these covers are, to my eyes, becoming increasingly close to freak flicks. Look at Bey tryna be all deep and stuff. Are you buying what she’s selling or do you think this all part of her plan to “re-invent” herself?? Image via Terry Richardson
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Question Of The Day: Is Beyonce Gisele Knowles-Carter A Hero Of Modern Day Feminism???
