To be grossed out by Nicki Minaj's new video?

[Risenfromtheashes]

Re her Anaconda video. Oh my lord!!! To be fair I was more amused than grossed out so that's an unfair statement.

It's basically soft core porn (maybe a tad harsh) and the lyrics are just pure filth!!

Didn't know if anyone else had seen it?

She doesn't know how to pronounce 'Balmain' if she thinks it rhymes with
Ro-maine .

There's guides on Youtube Nicki .

I disagree. I think feminism is about a lot more than choice. It is a political philosophy, not a consumer movement.

Someone might have already posted a link to this. It's a parody video.

Minaj - "Anaconda" PARODY: o

And this is why I won't allow my sons to watch music videos.

I know I can't do much, but I can sure as shit do my part to try to prevent them from thinking women are objects put on earth for their titillation and this oversexualised crap is normal.

I think it is more than women are free to etc etc, because the gender difference, well, it smacks you in the gob and you have to ask yourself IS it free choice and if so - why the vast majority making this choice are women?

Women wearing next to nothing and thrusting themselves about.
Men fully clothed.
When's the last time we saw a top earning male music star in his pants, thrusting back and forth, mouth open, staring at the camera and shots of his face interspersed with close up crotch shots?
-joke videos not included. I mean serious actual videos. Genuine song promoting videos.

Yet practically every top performing female singer is presented in this way.

I don't think I've seen a female singer in more than a leotard in about 5 years.

and this is choice? equality? liberation?

Seriously?

We need some male liberation then, if that's the case. Get puff daddy or ronan keating or tom jones stripped down to their underpants and jiggling away with their finger in their mouth while the camera does a close up of their cock straining away in their undies. The poor men. All repressed and unequal.

I don't accept that this is equality and liberation. One party in their underwear, performing sexually and one party fulled clothed overlooking it all is not equality imo.

Oops!

Vitalstatistix, how old are your sons?

Just curious as my 12 yr old has internet on his phone and PC, how do you police the ban on music videos?

they are 14 and 15

I use parental software on the computers. Their tvs in their room only hook up to their consoles (which are not connected to the net) and play DVDs. etc etc. I'm right there for the living room tv and they know they aren't allowed to watch certain things and they don't. Probably more because it triggers a very long talk from me on the subject and they'd rather have bamboo shoved up their fingernails than have to talk about this with mum again

I am under no illusions that they see things. Nothing is 100% safe and certainly I cannot control what they may be shown at school if they get out from under the watchful eye of their 1:1, but I limit (as far as it is humanly possible for me to do so ) their exposure to it and I make sure they know my views on the subject

at school from other kids I mean. I don't expect the staff are showing them soft porn and waggling arses.

Well thats nearly five minutes ill never get back.

She doesn't need to hump the floor, but she wants to and that is okay

Sorry but that made me :o I'm sure a group of psychiatrists and dog trainers would disagree.

But, that's what feminism is eh? A womans right to hump the floor.

What about this then

SO much nicer and better, fun tune. But still about one thing being right and the other being wrong, still 'skinny bitches' versus 'curves', still seen in the light of what boys like.

Also still this choice between saying you are perfect no matter how big, or you must be very skinny. Whatever happened to normal, to being a healthy weight? I know the lead singer probably is that, but the implication of the lyrics/video is that however big you are is good. As a backlash, or as a confidence boost on the way to getting fit, that is fine. I just think we should be able to get past all that, and past this women disparaging other women about size thing.

Also, I have had it with the word 'booty'!!!!!

Chuffmuffin I have never seen the original video but I was crying with laughter by 1 minute into the farting parody and had to turn it off. It's perfect :o

exactly temporaryusername, the woman in the other video is just dressed up as a little girl and saying 'the boys like me more than they like you'

*When's the last time we saw a top earning male music star in his pants, thrusting back and forth, mouth open, staring at the camera and shots of his face interspersed with close up crotch shots?
-joke videos not included. I mean serious actual videos. Genuine song promoting videos.

Yet practically every top performing female singer is presented in this way.

I don't think I've seen a female singer in more than a leotard in about 5 years.*

I just pmsl thinking about Adele doing that. There are lots!