Any comments about Lilly Allen's hard out here music video??
Well you can look in my lily allen tag for that, so I'm going to take this opportunity to address all the white feminists out there who are defending it.
It is hypocritical to say that women shouldn't be objectified, yet support the exploitation of black female bodies in the same breath. To do so is saying 1) You don't believe in intersectionality which defeats the purpose of feminism entirely 2) black women aren't technically women. Specifically because you cannot relate to us.
White women don't stand for us, yet we've had to settle for white women to speak for us, be our female protagonists and represent us entirely. And when we attempt to speak for ourselves or represent ourselves, we're told we're ungrateful or that we're making everything into a race issue. The feminist movement refuses to acknowledge us as black AND female. We are told to identify as one or the other because white people don't understand intersectionality.
The black woman has been viewed as the lowest of the low for centuries. Our bodies being fetishized, abused, seen as a joke and less than white bodies which is why Lily Allen feels comfortable with having a lyric about women not objectifying their selves yet has black women shaking their asses through the entire thing which translates to "White female bodies are sacred. IDGAF about WOC tho."
Then people wanna say "Well no one forced those women to do that" or "black women do it all the time in rap videos. What's the difference?"
Well, no white feminist should ever talk about hip hop videos since she knows nothing about that life. (No, that's not a generalization. White feminists know nothing of hip hop and think twerking was invented by Miley Cyrus) So that discussion is off the table.
As for the women dancing for allen? Umm, I believe the answer is called money. Those women dance for a living and outside of the occasional music video, how many companies are hiring curvy black women instead of skinny white girls to dance for them? That must be a very competitive job, so when opportunity strikes for a fat paycheck, best believe I would snatch it up too.
Dancing in the background =/= supporting a racist ass song and video. Did they write the song? Did they direct or produce the video? If not then they're not cosigning shit. As soon as those pretty ass women cashed their paychecks, I bet they were talking mad shit about how shitty that song was and how dumb the music video was just like the rest of us are.
