she's obviously an inspiration to a lot of black women for becoming so vastly successful given the conditions she is so critical of, plus its not like she was born a multimillionaire pop culture icon. but you're right it would make more sense for black women to idolize a homeless woman named georgia who failed at life thats how that works
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like yeah the album sucks ass but also you're blowing more smoke out your ass than a dragon with tequila shits
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According to typical sjw hermeneutics of suspicion -- if intellectual honestly and consistency were things valued by them -- no she couldn't. The privileged, as so blinded by it, can't understand the experience of those not of privilege. Bey exemplifies privilege. Surely, she has no idea what it's like to be a single urban black mother trying to raise several children out of wedlock -- so how she can speak for "the struggle for legitimacy and power black women face in ALL aspects of their lives (emphasis mine)"? Class is an important lens here too. The intersection of class, race and sex give Beyonce quite the small sociological area to criticize, contra the comprehensiveness in scope that the reviewer erroneously ascribes to her.
That is, if you believe in such things. For the record, I don't; I'm not a cultural Marxist. In the slanderous words of Hillary Clinton, I'm "deplorable." I was just applying the same espoused standards and hoisting them by their own petard. All this social justice bullshit masks a will to power to dominate others. That's all it is.
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@ JasDevil,
Thanks for reminding me. I got to do it at least three more times today.
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you're so full of shit your tongue smells like turd.
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fuck if one more user i don't know calls me Jasdevil I swear I'm gonna go ham
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LordePots,
I'm not saying she can't be an inspiration for black women -- not at all. She's remarkably talented and deserves the success, fame and life she's carved out for herself. That's worth admiration by all regardless of class, sex, race, etc.
Rather, she shouldn't be idolized for her politics and moral preening. Idolization, fetishization of her for things that are outside her area of expertise is fashionable but misguided. She does not speak for all black women concerning these matters, and black women should be independent enough in mind to realize it. There's a progressive celebrity conceit that they are smarter and better than us, as manifested by the slew of famous people, in their inflated sense of self, telling us how to vote. I find it disgustingly condescending and arrogant. Same here with all this.
Nor am I blowing smoke out of my ass. I know some things about intellectual history and philosophy, including what Critical Theory is and and where it comes from, which underlies all this social justice crap that's too often accepted as gospel and above criticism or reproach.
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Sorry, Jasdevi087.
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How would you know LordePots? Been digging around in there with your own? I'm not going to apologize for having a vocabulary above the typical millennial. I thought being pretentious is thought of highly here at Sputnik?
Haha.
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so how does the inside of your large intestine smell?
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Personally I didn't think this was really the mind-bending experience that tumblr promised me =/
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
mind-bending
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that's the word I got when I asked someone about it yeah, mind-bending
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
i think all that prog has caused your brain to obscure your definition of mind-bending
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sorry, I'm not a native english speaker, what does mind-bending mean to you? cause I always thought it meant something like so good you just can't handle it
also c'mon prog is only 15% of my pie chart =(
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Album Rating: 2.5
ariana grande's dangerous woman>
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Album Rating: 2.0
smae
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ffs tbh
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Album Rating: 4.5
@Asdfp is it really that good?
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Damn people are still sleeping on Ariana
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