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Beyoncé: 'Men are free and women are not' | Beyoncé: 'Men are free and women are not' |
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In a forthcoming interview, Beyoncé has called out "the double standard" of contemporary sexuality, proposing that her latest album has "opened up [a] conversation" about women as sexual beings, and not just victims. | In a forthcoming interview, Beyoncé has called out "the double standard" of contemporary sexuality, proposing that her latest album has "opened up [a] conversation" about women as sexual beings, and not just victims. |
"Men are free and women are not," the singer wrote in an email interview with Out magazine for its May Power issue, her first feature since debuting her self-titled album in December. "The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. [But] women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist – whatever you want to be – and still be a sexual being. It’s not mutually exclusive." | |
With its frank lyrics about female power, desire, libido, envy and sex, Beyoncé's self-titled studio album, surprise-released last December, has been received as a kind of mission statement about empowerment and third-wave feminism. But although Beyoncé seems happy that people are talking about these ideas, she says the songs weren't deliberately political: "I really set out to make the most personal, honest, and best album I could make," she said, free from "the pressures and expectations of what I thought I should say or be". | With its frank lyrics about female power, desire, libido, envy and sex, Beyoncé's self-titled studio album, surprise-released last December, has been received as a kind of mission statement about empowerment and third-wave feminism. But although Beyoncé seems happy that people are talking about these ideas, she says the songs weren't deliberately political: "I really set out to make the most personal, honest, and best album I could make," she said, free from "the pressures and expectations of what I thought I should say or be". |
"Being that I am a woman in a male-dominated society," she continued, "the feminist mentality rang true to me and became a way to personalise that struggle." Ultimately, she said she had more on her mind than the relationships "between a woman and a man … What I'm really referring to, and hoping for, is [overall] human rights and equality," she said. It's meant as a vision for anyone "who considers themselves an oppressed minority … to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love". | "Being that I am a woman in a male-dominated society," she continued, "the feminist mentality rang true to me and became a way to personalise that struggle." Ultimately, she said she had more on her mind than the relationships "between a woman and a man … What I'm really referring to, and hoping for, is [overall] human rights and equality," she said. It's meant as a vision for anyone "who considers themselves an oppressed minority … to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love". |
The singer's fifth album is currently at No 20 on the UK chart. | The singer's fifth album is currently at No 20 on the UK chart. |
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