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08 Aug 2012
She spoke out at the concert, and earlier voiced her support during an interview.
I wonder what Elton will have to say about it?!
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26 May 2011
You've all heard Beyonce's new song and seen the video, Run The World, right. Some of my gays were having orgasms over the video, though I was a little underwhelmed. Sure it's very expensive looking, and glossy, with some hot fashion (the mirror shoes) and some really gorgeous images (in particular I like the hyena shots - I've been meaning to blog about the hyena men in Somalia for ages. Somebody remind me later!) but, so many videos are all those things these days. It doesn't excite me like the Single Ladies clip did.
However, all that aside, the one thing about the video that did make me raise a jaded eye-brow was the fact that she's singing about gurl power, and how women run the world and it has this feminist gloss to it... and then she and all her powerful, world-running women spend half the video dancing in their bras and suspender belts! Or in cheap stripper dresses! Beyonce's women may be running the world, but only as long as they dress like whores so the men will let them.
So I was amused when I came across this Beyonce take-down from a funny, and fired-up feminist. Though as she says herself, in response to some of the comments on the YouTube page:
"This video is not about Beyonce. It's not even really about this song. My point is NOT that she shouldn't have made this song because of X, Y, and Z.
My point IS: Oh, Look! X, Y, and Z exist and this song is a great tie-in to a discussion of feminism.
If you've watched some of my other videos, you would be able to sense the sarcastic tone. Relax."
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15 Jun 2010
Feminist Hulk joined Twitter recently and has quickly garnered attention as he "SMASH MASCULINIST DEMANDS TO DENY EMOTION" and "CRADLE TENDER, SENSITIVE HULK WITHIN". He likes babies because they are "UNFETTERED BY SEXIST IDEOLOGY, AND HAVE NATURAL INSTINCT TO SMASH THINGS", and is "NOT THREATENED BY ACKNOWLEDGING THE PERFORMATIVITY OF GENDER. HULK NOT REQUIRE MASCULINITY OR ESSENTIALISM TO LOVE HULK BODY."
He also "USE ALL-CAPS. HULK CHOOSE NOT TO IMPOSE HIERARCHY ON LANGUAGE. PLUS, BIG HULK FINGERS MAKE SHIFT-KEY PROBLEMATIC."
He was recently interviewed by Ms Magazine.
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