Everyone has their opinions on her recent VMA performance, and I do too, albeit scattered. In sum, I think the performance was tasteless. I am not sure whether I am more disturbed by the exploitation of a young woman in several ways, including her pairing with a much older gigolo artist or the ignorance of the racist undertones regarding black women. I also admit that I have a guilty pleasure of seeing people's seething reactions to her clowny performance. I also think she looks like she's having fun, and you know...girls just wanna. But then I come around full circle and remember the operative word to that lyric: girls. She is a girl in so many ways, and that performance, her music video, so many things...they can't be undone. So yeah...I don't know. And she's naked in her new video:
I do know this. I'm a mother of a son and he is being raised to respect women. He will also understand sexuality to the best that his parents can educate him, and from an early age. I do not have a little girl, but I might some day. And it scares me how much difference a few years can make.
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