Posted on 09/03/2020 2:59:08 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Unusually, the conservative Ben Shapiro and the Left-wing Russell Brand are in the doghouse for exactly the same offence. Both men have been critical of a new music video by the American rappers Cardi B and Megan Three Stallion titled ‘WAP’, a track that takes an already sexualised art form and ramps it to 11, so much so that it has been the subject of fevered worldwide media coverage since its release ten days ago.
An incredulous Shapiro read out the lyrics during last week’s episode of his Daily Wire show...condemning the track as “vulgar” and insisting that it is representative of “what the feminist movement is all about..."
Brand’s take was quite different, although just as unpopular with fans of WAP. He suggested that the track and video were in fact anti-feminist...Brand asked a pertinent question “do women achieve equality by aspiring to and replicating the values that have been established by males?”
The clip that went viral on Twitter was just a couple of minutes long and didn’t include the most interesting part of Brand’s argument, in which he made an anti-capitalist point that deserves far more consideration than it has so far received. “That’s a product, what we’re looking at there” he said of the WAP video, and he’s quite right — this is a product that is not only hyper-sexual, but also hyper-capitalist, a fact that has been ignored by the other Leftist commentators who have been naively praising what was described in The Guardian as “an unabashed celebration of female sexuality.”
There is plenty else in the track to suggest a transactional attitude towards sex..."Pay my tuition” pleads Megan to this imagined man, who must “make it rain” if he wants her...favours. "Ask for a car."..."Let me tell you how I got this ring."
(Excerpt) Read more at unherd.com ...
The two movies i’ve seen with him in it were bit parts. I have no idea what else he’s in.
but Bell is hot Hot HOT!!!
He has a child now.
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