As we all know social construct have has a large pull on what we all define as sexy or what’s on the rage right now. Within this article http://feministing.com/2013/01/18/we-are-totally-cool-with-beyonce-posing-in-her-underwear/ we see an original article and then rattling on of responses towards the article. Reading through the original article and then reading through the responses I tended to agree more with those women. I know it is important to be aware of your surroundings and the world that we’re in but how can we impose our believes on anyone else? And yes it does seem to make me a little of hypocrite from my Miley Cyrus blog post. But if these women or celebrities have not self proclaimed themselves as feminist so how is it that we can impose our own beliefs upon them. Once again, I might be biting myself in the ass for that Miley Cyrus post but like the writer said, we’re stuck in limbo. How are we, women supposed to win? We’re criticized for being sexy in a society that says the only thing we’re good for is being sexy. lol I’m stuck, y’all.
I think in this case, if you look at Beyonce v. Miley, the difference is like what we talked about in the Lorde piece The Power of the Erotic. Beyonce is a respected, commanding woman ("bow down" anyone?) who is a voice for equality and is a role model for women of her race. Miley, frankly, is a bit trashy (I'm sorry, normally I would say "no judgement" but I have certain moral absolutes) and exploits the image of woman and tries to pass it off as her simply demonstrating her "sexual power" in a prudish society.
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