First of all, what is feminism?
Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for women.
It's important to know the actual definition and do some research before starting out on your 2000 word essay about how Hyuna is such an example of an oppressed female *ahem* slut.
What most people do nowadays, especially rabid, insane, jealous netizens, is hide behind the covers of a feminist and slut-shame these women. I would call that oppression. Isn't feminism about achieving social rights for women? One of these social rights is being able to have the freedom of wearing whatever the heck I want to wear without having a hoard of oppressive sexist beings attack me for my choices in life.
Let's take a look at a current example in the western world, Miley Cyrus.
It's obvious that many people call her a slut for her explicit behaviour.
But go ahead and ask any radical feminist out there about what they think about her behaviour and they'll reply back with "it's her body, she should be able to do whatever she wants with it".
Take this and put it with every girl group/female solo singer doing sexy concepts nowadays. They're encouraging people to fight back against dumb stereotypes and teaching girls to embrace who they are regardless of how much clothing they have on.
I don't see you netizens complaining when your oppas take off their shirts (and change on stage, ehm EXO) but the moment some girl shows some skin you all go all "feminist bonkers" on her.
The girls are actually hardass feminists in a sense that "I'm going to do whatever I want with my body, this is my body and I'm proud of it, nothing you say can crush me, in fact I'll just come back stronger" which is just what Stellar did after Marionette's criticisms.
Look, they're all radical feminists.
Unfortunately this theory applies to about 1% of female idols. This is when my argument breaks down due to the fact that, unlike Miley Cyrus, they don't get to decide, about anything. This leads on nicely to my next section...
Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for women.
It's important to know the actual definition and do some research before starting out on your 2000 word essay about how Hyuna is such an example of an oppressed female *ahem* slut.
This little blog post will be separated into two sub-headings. A) Why Hyuna is a feminist (in theory) and B) Why you still shouldn't slut shame her.
To start with A! Why Hyuna is a feminist (in theory).
What most people do nowadays, especially rabid, insane, jealous netizens, is hide behind the covers of a feminist and slut-shame these women. I would call that oppression. Isn't feminism about achieving social rights for women? One of these social rights is being able to have the freedom of wearing whatever the heck I want to wear without having a hoard of oppressive sexist beings attack me for my choices in life.
Let's take a look at a current example in the western world, Miley Cyrus.
It's obvious that many people call her a slut for her explicit behaviour.
But go ahead and ask any radical feminist out there about what they think about her behaviour and they'll reply back with "it's her body, she should be able to do whatever she wants with it".
Take this and put it with every girl group/female solo singer doing sexy concepts nowadays. They're encouraging people to fight back against dumb stereotypes and teaching girls to embrace who they are regardless of how much clothing they have on.
I don't see you netizens complaining when your oppas take off their shirts (and change on stage, ehm EXO) but the moment some girl shows some skin you all go all "feminist bonkers" on her.
The girls are actually hardass feminists in a sense that "I'm going to do whatever I want with my body, this is my body and I'm proud of it, nothing you say can crush me, in fact I'll just come back stronger" which is just what Stellar did after Marionette's criticisms.
Look, they're all radical feminists.
Unfortunately this theory applies to about 1% of female idols. This is when my argument breaks down due to the fact that, unlike Miley Cyrus, they don't get to decide, about anything. This leads on nicely to my next section...
B) Why you still shouldn't slut shame them.
Slut shaming is very unfortunate. Women will always judge one another (men will also continue to judge women). Someone may as well be wearing the so called "slutty clothes" but on the inside they could be the sweetest person imaginable, so different to your expectations.
Netizens always point fingers at the female idols themselves for behaving in a "slutty" manner but if you disagree so much with her sexy concept you should point fingers at the CEO, the guy in charge. Who decides on which concept the group is going to do? Who has complete control over the members lives? None other than the CEO of course. Instead of blaming Hyuna (or whoever else you've decided to pick on today) remember that, if anything, the CEO was behind all of it, he is to blame. Hyuna was simply obeying her orders, otherwise she'll be kicked out of the company left to fend for herself. I reckon she doesn't want that to happen.
Many female idols are not actually doing what they want with their bodies (ditto here with male idols) so slut shaming them is like blaming them for something they haven't actually done. Just because you don't like a certain race doesn't mean that it's seen as acceptable to post a whole blog post about it. It's the same here. Sure do whatever you want but that doesn't mean that I agree with it, nor do I accept it.
(I could've added a paragraph here stating why the CEOs are the true feminists behind it all but I decided not to, no)