''What do you call a man who stands there smiling and singing as
his scantily clad wife straddles a chair and shakes her rear end for other
men’s titillation?
For years, these award ceremonies have pushed the envelope; Beyoncé’s booty-shaking was certainly no worse than Miley
Cyrus’s twerking or any number of other performances by Madonna, for instance.
But there’s something particularly icky about doing it while your husband looks
on approvingly.
“Honestly, I didn’t want to watch Jay Z and Beyoncé’s foreplay,”
says Charlotte Hays, author of “When Did White Trash Become the New Normal?”
Indeed, the happy couple seems to have completely blurred the line between what
goes on in their bedroom and what happens on national TV. So much for the woman
that Michelle Obama has called “a role model who kids
everywhere can look up to.”
Hays says, “It wasn’t surprising to see Jay Z, looking pleased at
his wife’s hyper-sexualized exhibition on stage.” After all, “he’s made a
living singing lyrics that call women ‘bitches’ and ‘hos,’ so we shouldn’t be
surprised that he objectified his own wife on stage.”
It is a little bit surprising, though, coming so soon after
Beyoncé contributed to the recent feminist manifesto, the Shriver Report. When
she complains that “gender equality is a myth,” one
wonders to what extent her consent to sell sexuality has contributed to the
problem''.
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