• Feminists Everywhere React To Beyonce's Latest
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[URL="http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/12/19/255527290/feminists-everywhere-react-to-beyonc-s-latest"]NPR Story[/URL] [quote= NPR]617,000. That's how many copies of her self-titled album Beyonce sold in three days last week, after she dropped it without warning. As fans and critics have dug in, debates about the messages and images within it are roiling. Is Beyonce, the sexy pop goddess who has performed at two inaugurations, also this generation's highest-profile feminist? I spoke to six people who identify as feminists — all of whom feel differently about Beyonce — to find out how a pop album no one was ready for is capping off a year of think pieces and Twitter skirmishes. The night Beyonce unleashed her new songs and videos, filmmaker Tanya Steele watched her Twitter account explode. "When I saw black feminists on Twitter just going crazy, I thought, 'Wow, she must really have done something!' "[/quote] For the lazy douches who won't read. The article is partly about the generational divide as its mostly women of color who are celebrating this as a piece of feminism. The crux of what inspired this explosion was ultimatly one of her songs uses a sample from a TEDtalk titled "We Should All Be Feminists." There's your TL;DR. [editline]20th December 2013[/editline] Ready;[B]FIGHT[/B]
[QUOTE]Ready;FIGHT[/QUOTE] Are you serious? Why are you encouraging to turn this into a shitshow?
Beyonce is cool.
[QUOTE=OogalaBoogal;43250709]Are you serious? Why are you encouraging to turn this into a shitshow?[/QUOTE] Its going to happen whether I try to to stop or not, I'd rather laugh through the whole thing that sit here slamming my head against the table. I even put a TL;DR for the majority of those who will be fighting who [I]never[/I] [B]fucking[/B] [I][B]read.[/B][/I]
as long as thisispain isn't here this can be a small shitstorm
I'm not sure why you're all "READY FOR A SHITSTORM" ? It doesn't seem to me that there's an outrage about this at all?
Maybe I'm wrong but; I feel in this generation we should be coming closer together, uniting, disregarding differences and learning to function as one humanity. I feel as though these recently arising groups with 'boxed ideals' don't really have much point to them other than giving people a "Oh yeah, well I'm X and Y" to associate with - which creates more division for the purpose of dividing, irrespective of whether what actually happens is related to the groups ideals or just perceived to be. It's like, if you want to acknowledge independence or whatever, fall back on real independence - that you were born, and will die, completely alone in the world. And so does everyone else. So that should be a uniting factor. Anything added to that just creates more division. And then spend your time doing something that contributes to humanity as a whole.
[QUOTE=Swilly;43250748]Its going to happen whether I try to to stop or not, I'd rather laugh through the whole thing that sit here slamming my head against the table. I even put a TL;DR for the majority of those who will be fighting who [I]never[/I] [B]fucking[/B] [I][B]read.[/B][/I][/QUOTE] I don't think it's beneficial to accept that it will be a crap thread from the OP.
[QUOTE=Heroku;43250756]as long as thisispain isn't here this can be a small shitstorm[/QUOTE] dont forget milkandcookie, yawmwen, lachzor and person11 oh and jeep-eep
So uh am I missing the controversy or what?
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;43250767]I'm not sure why you're all "READY FOR A SHITSTORM" ? It doesn't seem to me that there's an outrage about this at all?[/QUOTE] My wonderful powers of foresight feel someone is going to say something stupid.
[QUOTE=Heroku;43250756]as long as thisispain isn't here this can be a small shitstorm[/QUOTE] Well unfortunately he has been unban the other day, so he'll come back anytime soon.
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;43250767]I'm not sure why you're all "READY FOR A SHITSTORM" ? It doesn't seem to me that there's an outrage about this at all?[/QUOTE] There has never been a thread about feminism that hasn't gone without a shitstorm. This thread wouldn't be an exception. [editline]20th December 2013[/editline] Boy if only mods would do their job to prevent shitstorms :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=Heroku;43250803]There has never been a thread about feminism that hasn't gone without a shitstorm. This thread wouldn't be an exception. [editline]20th December 2013[/editline] Boy if only mods would do their jobs to prevent shitstorms :rolleyes:[/QUOTE] I think this is more entertaining than cable for them
[QUOTE=mchapra;43250813]I think this is more entertaining than cable for them[/QUOTE] it comes to a point where it's just downright embarassing to read
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;43250767]I'm not sure why you're all "READY FOR A SHITSTORM" ? It doesn't seem to me that there's an outrage about this at all?[/QUOTE] He means everyone is going to bicker about feminism.
[QUOTE=Swilly;43250786]My wonderful powers of foresight feel someone is going to say something stupid.[/QUOTE] Yeah, you've already tried to start a fight on the internet.
ruh-roh. i can feel the shit-storm acomin. It's gonna be here in 3... 2... 1..
so... any good songs on the album?
ok ok do over. its gonna happen for real this time 3.... 2.... 2 and a half... 2 and a quarter...
[QUOTE=Heroku;43250756]as long as thisistheonewhocantbenamed isn't here this can be a small shitstorm[/QUOTE] Don't write his name or he'll see this thread.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;43250826]He means everyone is going to bicker about feminism.[/QUOTE] Yeah, the article never survives as people argue over feminism.
i really want new good new songs beyonce
Why are you guys making a controversy about the thread being doomed to end up in controversy? And since when was debating on an Internet forum so negative?
I have a feeling that the shitstorm is going to start because people are going to argue about how this may or may not cause a shitstorm. I don't see any other possibility because this seems to be okay
[QUOTE=Pelican;43250782]dont forget milkandcookie, yawmwen, lachzor and person11[/QUOTE] The only one of those who is actually terrifying is person11 because he seems to have gone totally insane recently. Dunno why you're all so scared of pain, guy just tells it like it is. The points are all right, you might not agree with the method he presents them, but that doesn't mean he's wrong.
as far as things go "woman releases music", is not interesting news discussion. I've never listened to a Beyonce album in full, only the singles.. Her older stuff with the group in the 90s was pretty good
What "oppression" has Beyonce endured?
a shitstorm about whether or not a shitstorm will happen is going to happen
What if OP planned this all along? He prevented a shitstorm by predicting a shitstorm!
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