WAP may be 2020's epitome of female empowerment but a lot of people are not realizing the message behind the song, and what it tells her younger female fans to do. It's simply just odd that we aren't considering how the music encourages girls to sexualize themselves and are instead, celebrating it.
Additionally, a show called Cuties, soon to premiere on Netflix, is a series about a young, pre-teenaged girl who rebels against her parents to join a "twerking" dance group of other girls within her age group. It features underaged actors in dance attire that consists of shorts and visible midriff and while it did get a lot of backlash initially with its critics claiming it'd attract pedophiles, WAP wasn't really criticized harshly because anybody who did was immediately silenced by supporters as being insignificant conservatives, or as men who just don't understand. The song seems to have created two types of people: those who are so desperate for a role model and leader that they somehow find the song empowering and heroic, and those who can look beyond it to see that it really isn't and is actually part of the problem.
There needs to be discussion about what certain forms of entertainment, such as music, movies, social media, etc., are encouraging children to do. And Cardi B telling girls that child support is making "money moves" is simply not it.
This is probably an unpopular opinion that will be just so obviously seeping with "internalized misogyny" as they'd say, but female empowerment has gone a little too far if stuff like this is being produced.
Additionally, a show called Cuties, soon to premiere on Netflix, is a series about a young, pre-teenaged girl who rebels against her parents to join a "twerking" dance group of other girls within her age group. It features underaged actors in dance attire that consists of shorts and visible midriff and while it did get a lot of backlash initially with its critics claiming it'd attract pedophiles, WAP wasn't really criticized harshly because anybody who did was immediately silenced by supporters as being insignificant conservatives, or as men who just don't understand. The song seems to have created two types of people: those who are so desperate for a role model and leader that they somehow find the song empowering and heroic, and those who can look beyond it to see that it really isn't and is actually part of the problem.
There needs to be discussion about what certain forms of entertainment, such as music, movies, social media, etc., are encouraging children to do. And Cardi B telling girls that child support is making "money moves" is simply not it.
This is probably an unpopular opinion that will be just so obviously seeping with "internalized misogyny" as they'd say, but female empowerment has gone a little too far if stuff like this is being produced.
