"there's literally no basis to single out Meg + Cardi. I'll listen all day to a genuine argument about hypersexualization in rap or the music indistry in general etc, but how can it be cool for men to rap explicitly about women and girls but not women to rap explicitly about *our own* bodies/desires/POV???"

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"some of the same ppl calling Meg + Cardi's dancing porn and complaining about stripper this and that have prob *shrugged* at women and girls doing *THE EXACT SAME THINGS* in a male rapper's video/performance. Yall should examine why that is."


Because WAP is hardly *hardly* the first sexually explicit rap song to gain mainstream success lol. One could argue that WAP is simply a product of the X-rated landscape - defined as MALE "sexual prowess and domination" and "pleasure" - that misogynist rap has wrought. So, like I said, I'll listen to an argument about the past and current rap/industry landscape in general, but yall lose me trying to single out Meg + Cardi.


>it was floated as a valid reason for the song to have been
>provided such a mainstream platform. I call bullshit, because
>I don't see a single thing that's empowering in a way that it
>should be promoted and provided such a mainstream platform.
>Simple as that.
>I guess it depends on what one's asperations are...if they're
>limited to sexual prowess and domination and providing
>pleasure.... then sure...it's
>empowering....
>