Nicki Minaj

djchameleon · 08-26-2014, 05:05 AM

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Originally Posted by WhateverDude

The qualm that I have with these kinds of videos, and maybe it's not a fair one to have, is that

they kind of reinforce this idea that to be a sexual female pop star you still have to cater towards perhaps backwards and overwhelmingly predominantly male fantasies. not that that's in all cases inherently wrong. but this one in particular doesn't really seem to espouse any sort of feminine sexuality, just women doing (seemingly exclusively) what men want. and, from what i've seen, that's what the vast majority of female sexuality in popular media is made out to be. What kind of example does that set? Not just for women, mind you.

I'm not tryna step on anyone's toes here or shift the discussion so far off course it's just something I've been thinking about. I am totally not an expert so if anyone wants to school me like, get on it.

Her intention was to be empowering of her own image and to show body positivity. The place where she goes a little wrong is the whole shaming skinny women in the process. She wanted to showcase thicker women because she feels like in media and even in hip hop they only like to glorify skinny women as being beautiful and sexy.

It feels like we watched two different videos or maybe you weren't paying attention to the lyrics and the symbolism in the video. There is a part where she pretends that she likes a banana then chops it up aggressively while winking at the camera. Just one of the examples that she isn't doing this for men.