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Two feminists with a love of gossip sites and an inability to "shut up" or "smile correctly" when gossip sites draw obscene images on pictures of 15 year olds or refer to bisexual men and women as attention seeking.

So we created this tumblr to talk about that.

The title of the blog comes from our mutual loathing of pictures of crying and/or upset celebrity children. We wish such pictures, like many of the things we highlight here, would disappear from the face of the earth.

Let’s Talk Rihanna!

(Picture from barbados.org)

In a recent GFY post, Rihanna is said to ” wear a string bikini and dance 90-percent-nude down the streets of Barbados”.  This is true.  She did exactly that.  But I wonder if California internet users have access to wikipedia, as a simple search would have brought up many pictures of people dressed like the photo above, AT THE EXACT SAME EVENT AS RIHANNA.

This was not a case of Rihanna showing up somewhere and dressing “wacky” or “unusually” or “crazily” or any of the other terms we so like to throw around to police the sartorial choices that people make.  This was Rihanna dressed for a cultural celebration.

As you can see from this easy to find picture, the other young woman is dressed as Rihanna is.  But Rihanna is tisked for, what we are supposed to assume,  her “inappropriate” behavior. This is not simply a “tsking” of a young woman and her right to control/present her body in the manner she choses, but when contextualized, becomes a “tsking” of a cultural tradition.  It is also an example of “stripping” (Yes, I know, bad choice of words.) a young woman of color of her cultural traditions. 

The linked post is not just about implicitly slut shaming her for dancing semi-naked in the streets but is also about separating Rihanna from her non-European/USAian (read: unacceptable) cultural traditions.

(Source: gofugyourself.com)

August 8th, 2011   8 notes