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⌈ Secret Post #4787⌋

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Lizzo is not a good example, because there is an added factor of her being the size which has not been traditionally considered as desireable, so her broadening the scope of what's considered sexy and desireable can be empowering for people who feel themselves represented by her. So there's some kind of empowerment for some here.

The problem is that empowerment is complicated and often personal, rather than objective in any broad sense. For example, I'm generally in for the version of feminism that basically boils down to wear what you like, present as you like, what empowers you is empowering, but I also do think that the fact that there seems to be a half-naked blueprint for popstars to follow is just adding to the opressive social pressure of "being a desireable woman means being very sexualised and made-up" (just as the fact that all pictures, both in the press and on instagram, get photoshoped, and even films&videos are put through filter, and there's only a very limited amount of wrinkles that a woman over 40 is allowed to have...etc.). I mean, we should do what we like in your own life, because being a woman is complicated enough without us policing each other even more thoroughly, but no, I don't think that being sexy, beautiful and half-naked on stage is terribly empowering for women in general, even when it is done in a mildly transgressive way, e.g. by a woman older than the norm (JLo?) or larger than the norm (Lizzo).