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    Patriarchy The backlash to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s WAP proves society still hates sexually powerful women

    Emma Kelly for Metro.co.uk




    There’s a pandemic causing worldwide deaths, heartbreak and uncertainty, an impending economic crisis on the horizon and a presidential election in less than 100 days that will define the next four years in the US.

    But of course, the main cause for concern right now is two consenting adult women talking about being horny.

    This week saw the eagerly anticipated collaboration between two of rap’s hottest talents, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, dropped along with its video – and if you still think of WAP as the browser on your old Nokia, you may be in for a startling wake-up call.

    Cardi and Megan’s collab has resulted in all of us frantically lowering the volume every time someone enters the room, lest our mothers hear us chanting ‘bring a bucket and a mop for this wet ass p***y’, as we listen to their most explicit song yet.

    From instantly meme-able lyrics to stunning visuals that demand all the MTV VMAs next year, social media went into meltdown over the song, praising it as the song of the lost summer. Others reckon it will result in all girls going to hell.

    Instead of concentrating on the aforementioned slightly important events going on in the world right now, a number of Republican politicians have turned their attention to a song about banging.


    James P Bradley, a Republican running for a Congressional seat in California, tweeted that while he agreed with Cardi’s First Amendment right to rap about her vag, ‘Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion are what happens when children are raised without God and without a strong father figure.

    ‘Their new “song” The #WAP (which i heard accidentally) made me want to pour holy water in my ears and I feel sorry for future girls if this is their role model!’

    (Side note – ‘accidentally’, sure babes.)

    And former Republican Congressional candidate DeAnna Lorraine called the song ‘depraved’, tweeting: ‘Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion just set the entire female gender back by 100 years with their disgusting & vile “WAP” song.

    ‘If @iamcardib & @theestallion think that their vile #WAP song did anything to empower women they are completely wrong. No radio station should play that trash, censored or uncensored.’

    Now, James and DeAnna are as entitled to their opinions on Cardi and Megan’s music. But their outrage just proves something we already know – that society hates sexual women, and particularly, sexually confident Black women.



    Pretty much every second club song from a male artist features lyrics about indiscriminately banging women left, right and centre in great detail. Explicit lyrics and misogyny seem to be the acceptable norm. But the second a woman raps about her libido, the pearl-clutching begins.

    Lil Kim’s groundbreaking debut album Hard Core was critically praised and is considered a classic, but was also the target of much hate due to its overtly sexual lyrics. While many saw the album as a sexual revolution for a woman in an industry dominated by men, others called it vulgar.

    Her lyrical ability was doubted because of its content, her self-respect doubted too. Eight years on, she still had to defend women having a sex life, rapping on Christina Aguilera’s Can’t Hold Us Down: ‘If the guy have three girls then he’s the man… But if a girl do the same, she’s a whore.’

    Everyone from Khia to Nicki Minaj has been hit with the same double standards – that they’re letting themselves down by being sexual in their lyrics, and need to be ‘better than that’.

    Nearly two decades on, Cardi and Megan are still fighting the same fight for sexual Black women, carrying on the torch from Lil Kim (they even pay homage to the rapper in WAP, with her legendary squat pose for the Hard Core promo mirrored in the fountain at the start of the video).

    Two women at the top of their game and with everybody’s eyes on them, they could choose to speak about anything in their music, and they have. They want to talk about wanting big mack trucks parked in their garages, and you know what? More power to them.



    Particularly in the music industry, women have long been seen as sex objects, relegated to faceless T&A in videos, shaking it (a skill in itself, by the way, have you ever tried to twerk) alongside the man rapping triumphantly about ‘f***ing b***hes’ every night.

    There’s never any outrage when these 10-a-penny videos drop. But God forbid a woman does the same thing but without a man’s gaze upon her, and she’s the depraved harlot that should be setting a better example for the kids. Women are allowed to be sex objects when men want them to, but not when they want to be themselves.

    I mean, I’m not denying that WAP is filth. It is a tour de force of filth. Somehow, the censored version, which replaces the title with the phrase ‘wet and gushy’, is even more explicit. It is an eye-opening ode to nastiness, and it is a lot, and it is not for everyone, but you know what? That’s ok.

    Nobody is obliged to listen to WAP if they don’t want to; thanks to our self-curated diets of Spotify and YouTube, it’s easily avoided. But just because you don’t like Taylor Swift, or Nickleback, or Cardi and Megan’s filth, doesn’t mean that it is bad – or in the case of the latter – morally wrong.

    If you want to listen to deep, meaningful rap songs, they exist. If you want to listen to a raunch-fest with your girls in the club, that exists too.

    Cardi and Megan have built their empires on being talented rappers who are also sexual beings, and they are killing it. They’re not only owning what makes others nervous, but opening up the stage to other powerhouses like Normani and Sukihana, who explained why being hypersexual in the public eye is not a flaw.

    Speaking on Apple Music, the rapper said: ‘I feel like being sexual and s***… I don’t see nothing wrong with that. I’ve got three kids, and I got these kids from sucking and f***ing. Me being a “hoe”… honestly, I liberate a lot of hoes.’

    Sure, not every female act is feminist, but Cardi and Megan owning their bodies and their horniness and their right to be explicit without a male gaze dictating it is a radical act, which the predictable outrage continues to prove is needed.

    Knowing that they have power in their sexuality is all the self-respect Cardi and Megan need, and no outrage from the repressed can undermine their worth.

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    Stand down, whores..

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    2 Live Crew already did it






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    I like it. They're a bit fat tho...

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    2 Live Crew already did it

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    Doctors slam critics of Cardi B’s ‘WAP’ song: Don’t shame ‘healthy’ women

    By Hannah Sparks - New York Post




    Gentlemen, we’re going back to anatomy class.

    Cardi B’s racy new single, “WAP,” featuring rapper Megan Thee Stallion, has made a real splash on social media for the explicit song’s sex-positive lyrics, which focus solely on women’s satisfaction in the bedroom. (The title itself is both an acronym for “Wet Ass P - - - y” and onomatopoeia for a certain sound made during some forms of intercourse.)

    However, some critics have expressed dismay and confusion over the premise of the 27-year-old rap superstar’s song — namely the glorification of lubrication.

    “My only real concern is that the women involved — who apparently require a ‘bucket and a mop’ — get the medical care they require,” conservative pundit Ben Shapiro, 36, wrote on Twitter. “My doctor wife’s differential diagnosis: bacterial vaginosis, yeast infection, or trichomonis” — all of which are infections of the vagina.

    The nearly ratioed tweet — when critical replies to a tweet outnumber likes — was met with 8,500 retweets, with many calling his comments a “self-own.”

    “ ’My wife has never been wet’ isn’t the own you think it is, Ben,” quipped progressive journalist Beth Lynch in response. Her tweet to Shapiro was liked more than 14,800 times.

    “Lmao this is one of the all time greatest self owns,” said Twitter pundit Wild Geerters.

    Shapiro’s obtuse approach to the female anatomy made him a target of ridicule by Twitter users. But the most esteemed reactions came from real medical doctors correcting Shapiro’s evidently weak comprehension of reproductive health.

    “In my medical opinion, it’s normal — important even — for women to have a WAP,” said Dr. Daniel Grossman. The OB-GYN and public health researcher at the University of California San Francisco responded on Twitter, “Vaginal lubrication is common & orgasm experience depends on the individual. We should not shame women who have WAP.”

    Dr. Lauren Streicher, medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause, told Vulture, “Certainly, as a gynecologist, we all know that vaginal lubrication is a good and healthy thing. It means your body is responding in the way it’s supposed to be responding.”

    “I see so many women who have been mansplained by their partner that they are too wet. It’s medically incorrect, infuriating, heartbreaking, and harmful,” said Dr. Jen Gunter, author of “The Vagina Bible,” on Twitter. She added, “Thank you @iamcardib and @theestallion for that vagina celebration! Wish I could hand out these #WAP prescriptions.”

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    Poor Ben..

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    nobody ever showed him the squirt massage video?

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    Why (Some) Men Seem to be So Bothered by Cardi B's 'WAP,' Explained

    Damon Young - The Root




    This is dumb.

    What?

    Your entire premise.

    What’s wrong with it?

    Why would anyone in their right mind be bothered by waffles and pancakes? They’re delicious breakfast and brunch staples. The Anthony Davis of breakfast and brunch. And, even if you had celiac disease, there are gluten-free options. Do these men hate french toast too? You’re making this shit up to fill a weekly content quota, aren’t you?

    You need to leave the house more. “WAP” refers to a new song and video from Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion. It’s an acronym for “wet ass pussy.”

    This is still dumb.

    What?

    Your entire premise.

    What’s wrong with it?

    Why would any man in his right mind be bothered by wet ass pussy? They’re delicious sex staples. The Anthony Davis of fucking. And, even if you had celiac disease, there are gluten-free options.

    Gluten-free pussy options?

    I’m sure you can find that at Trader Joe’s. But really? This is a thing?

    Unfortunately, yes. Since the video’s release, there have been countless tweets, op-eds, videos, and Facebook status messages about how a song about lubrication efficiency is the sign of the apocalypse.

    Even professional sheet cake person Ben Shapiro weighed in, and actually got on Kyrie Irving’s internet to share that he believes a WAP is a serious medical condition.

    I don’t get it. Do these men not want women to enjoy sex?

    So, I think that question is misframing the issue. Most men who have sex with women very much want women to enjoy the sex they’re having...with them. For no other (admittedly selfish) reason than the fact that her enjoyment makes it more likely that she’ll continue wanting to fuck you. Men also want women in porn to enjoy sex—or, at least, feign enjoyment. But both the porn sex and the sex-sex are centered in male desire and pleasure. The problem with men who have a problem with “WAP” have is agency. Cardi and Megan, in the song, are very direct with their expectations of a lover. Basically, if you’re not packing—either in your pants or in your wallet (or both)—you need not apply.

    Basically, Cardi and Megan are telling these men that they don’t matter. It’s about the woman’s pleasure, the woman’s wants, the woman’s desires. And what you’re seeing, in the response, is a fear of inadequacy and sexual irrelevance. They just can’t handle being a non-motherfuckin’ factor.

    Ah. Anything else?

    It matters that there are no men in the video. And if you watch it, it’s not even so much about sex. They’re twerking and stripping and whatever, but mostly they’re just having goofy, silly, fun. The video takes place in a funhouse that belongs in a Tim Burton movie. It’s less porny than it’s campy—fun that exists without any male input or gaze.

    Shit. I wish this was about waffles and pancakes now. At least the men mad at this would have a valid defense.

    Me too.

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    Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it.

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    "what's the matter with being sexy"
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    thot patrol needs to visit these hoes

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    It's catchy.

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