WAP is obviously not female empowerment. It's the opposite... just female objectification, which is ironic.
Is having more women in certain fields "empowering" to women? Only if it's what a woman wants and what makes her happy. I don't understand why society believes that pushing women into certain fields is a good thing. There are already more female than male medical students, but there will never be nearly as many female engineering students as males because on average women do not enjoy engineering disciplines as much as men do. That will always be the case, so why push women into engineering? We should remove any barriers and let people do what they want, and we are already there.
More females earning the same salaries as males? Sure, but "earning" is the key word there and that means making the same life choices and sacrifices men do. It also means making a high-earning career the same life priority for women that it is for men, and that ain't never gonna happen because women care about different things and have different priorities than men do, and that is partly because men are valued by society (and by women) for their earnings far more than women are. So what exactly does "female empowerment" mean in that context?
"Female empowerment" is a misused and overused term.
That WAP song is for the super low class trashy women and for hookers to listen too. That song isn't musical art but straight nasty garbage design to destroy a young girls mind.
Keep in mind that cardi b admitted to drugging men, raping them, and robbing them. That’s not empowerment. She’s actually what women needs to steer away from when it come down to self respect and learning to love yourself the way you are right now. Cardi doing this because it’s what popular out here and this is what can get you record sells. Rap about something positive and you become invisible to the industry. Rap music plays and effect the intelligence level of the human mind. It effects the way you think and feel when playing music like this including songs involving violence. People listen to the music instead of just listening to the word. If people actually took the time to listen to the lyrics and understand then they will get the message being sent to the public. Their telling you to provoke violence on one another. They ain’t telling you nothing positive. A good percentage of them get all this money and only give back to keep themselves in the spotlight. They rap about lives they aren’t even living. I haven’t listened to rap in forever.
It's just a sexual song. Empowerment can be defined as "the process of becoming stronger and more confident, especially in controlling one's life and claiming one's rights." Under that meaning, sure, it can be used as personal empowerment for some women because empowerment is subjective. Maybe being sexually bold could help some women feel more confident and in control, but of course this won't apply to every woman because not every woman is the same. It could also empower certain female rappers by tackling double standards in rap. Of course, the men rap about sex and their dicks a lot without complaint, so the female rappers should be able to do something similar without complaint as well.
@JesterRose: You don't have to listen to it. Yet, that doesn't mean that rap fans general complain about it when it happens.
It depends on how you look at it. I’m all for women being free with their sexuality, but it’s hard when I think about how Cardi B and others like the Kardashians keep giving low value men sex after their guys committed infidelity. Women need to more about punishing bad behavior from men. Save sex for the guys who are at least worth a damn first, then you can brag about “how you got the ring.”
I don’t know who said this lie but WAP isn’t female empowerment. Kamala Harris is female empowerment. AOC is female empowerment. The prime minister for Germany and New Zeland are female empowerment. Whether any of the politicians I just mentioned any good is up for debate, but they show that women can do it to. Like I don’t get why men or women still think that they can’t do anything. Like ok physically if you put Michael Phelps against the best female swimmer no chance, but when it comes to real life work, ambitions, and dreams. They can do just the same as men. Like didn’t you see how Kim Jung Uns daughter was more dangerous than her father. Like that’s some scurry shit. 😂😂
It’s not female empowerment to tell women what professions they should aspire to. Nor is it female empowerment to judge women based on their clothing choices, sexual habits or how much flesh they show.
So I’d say your comments here are as opposing to female empowerment as that music video is.
Back in 2016 I was taking a creative writing class and was falling behind on homework. I thought my gpa was a goner do to that class, that is until one day my teacher asked us to write a poem from the view point of a body part. To save my grade I decided to write my poem from the view point of a vagina. Yes I said it, I wrote my poem about a vagina. Needless to say I got a A++++ in that class and suggestive looks from the teacher. One classmate had connections to LA and a couple celebrities. I like think they used my poem for their song... because boy... that was one suggestive poem.
In general... no. This isn’t something that applies to every type of woman. It is empowering for women who want to rap about sex and for women in life who are interested in exploring their sexuality.
I don’t understand why female empowerment has to be so broad. If it’s not something you agree with or if it’s simply not your style then stay in your lane and eat your food. It is empowering to some, and not others and that’s ok.
I think the song was just a song until women gave it a meaning.
Why can men sing/write songs about sex, going into explicit detail or being derogatory, but when a woman does it, it was shocking?
Why can men have women in revealing clothing, shaking their ass and everything else in their music videos, but when a woman does it, it's outrageous?
Why can't both (your examples and WAP) be female empowerment? Why is does it have to be a one or the other thing?
The song is just giving men a reason to jerk off. I mean cardi is an ex stripper for goodness sake. She just shakin whatever to make money. I don't know why people are making it more than it is lol. Its just a catchy tune with awesome costume designs, a lot of unnecessary lyrics and some extensive ass shakin
Meh, I think female empowerment is a multi-dimensional thing that is contingent on someone’s own perception and response to that.
Basic example. Plenty of people thought that scene in Avengers Endgame with all the female superheroes together was tacky, not empowering and cringy. But others, such as a niece of mine, was really happy to see that and felt great that they added it in.
Some stuff makes some people feel empowered and doesn’t make other people feel empowered. Do some people feel empowered by songs like these? Probably. Do other people feel that it is more of an embarrassment and not empowering? Probably.
I can imagine that if one would look for a consensus that this would generally not be seen as consensus, but of course how someone individually responds to it is a very individual thing.
Are you being serious right now? No that song isn't about female empowerment it's about two whores posing for attention.
The singer doesn't even want her own daughter to hear it because of how bad of a message it sends out. It's basically saying be a whore a gold digger and do drugs.
It's cringy is what it is.
Imagine a guy who's completely average bragging about himself, and saying he deserves to only sleep with models and he's better than like... David Beckham or something.
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That's exactly what women look like, when they buy into this 'empowernent' thing.
Women who are like... 5/10 walking around thiking they're 8's are embarrasing themselves. Seriously. We cringe at it.
There's a difference between confidence and arrogance.
Feminists are confused. A hooker living 10k years ago had the exact same amount of power as the women in the video. Nothing more. Nothing less. "Empowerment" implies that you're doing something new, gaining new power.
Also as more men learn the power of ignoring women and not letting his hormones or her emotions control him, this "power" women have had for thousands of years will be reduced.
We live in interesting times.
Well I feminism is about letting the woman have the choice of doing what she wants to. So the fact that the two singers are able to choose to do this could be seen an empowerment.
But then again, the video does have an unnecessary level of sexualization. Personally I feel like it's just to distract from the fact that Cardi B's singing isn't really that great.
It is for her.
It seems like she would feel that those other careers are unnecessary for her and that she in empowered above other women for relying largely on her sexuality to get what she wants. I think she sees that as putting herself at a level above other women as she doesn't need to feign sexual value through some high qualification career -- she just has it to the extent to which she can live off it without consideration for anyone else.
I refer you to the Equal Pay Act, which President Kennedy signed into law in 1963.
Women have had equal pay for that long.
Feminists continue to lie about the claimed pay gap. Imagine my surprise.
Women have fewer dollars in their pockets, on average, because women choose to work fewer hours, choose occupations that pay less and tend to choose worthless degrees.
And then there's me, who got paid 20% less for doing the exact same job as the girl we hired last year. She actually told me how much she makes and I in return told her how much I did for doing the exact same thing as she did.
Where I "live" such things go practically unpunished by the law. This is the corrupt and poor east, where specialists do the outsourced type of work.
"Whores in the house"
"Bring a bucket and a mop for this wet-ass pussy"
"Swipe your nose like a credit card"
"Spit in my mouth, look in my eyes"
"I don't cook, I don't clean
But let me tell you how i got this ring"
"I let him taste it, now he diabetic"
Sounds retarded ngl.
If that's women empowerment then I don't know what the word "women" means.
It is not "empowerment", it is called :career choice".
Females are ignoring the quite obsolete idea that certain jobs are for men only.
You know this is the new normal when the guy beside you in a foxhole is a girl.
Yes, because society thinks that only men can talk about sex. It's nice to see women finally getting sex and showing skin out there. It shows that liking this stuff doesn't make you a slut.
Using your huge platform to release a song like this is not only disrespectful to yourself, but to all women. No empowerment at all, just what is wrong with today’s society on full screen.
I thought this song was about going down on a girl and empowering others to be more comfortable with doing so 🙃
any girl that looks up to cardi b and genuinely take her advice to the heart is in serious need of a reality check. Carbi b is a low life that drugged and robbed men in clubs. she's a criminal and dumb one at that. she is absolutely in no position to empower anyone especially young ass girls that'll take her advice over say a lady doctor, lawyer, CEO or entrepreneur.
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