Thursday, 9 April 2015

Why Hyuna is a feminist (so is Gain, as well as the lovely ladies of Stellar and AOA)

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. 




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)

























Curly Hair Appreciation Post

This is my first post, and why not make it an appreciation post. You see, I have curly hair and I often feel left out due to the fact that straight hair is everywhere in k-pop, so I decided to dedicate this little post just to the naturals.


K-pop dudes are killing it with their ramen-style hair that guarantees swarms of swooning fangirls and who other than the infamous ugly hairstyle G-Dragon to rock this type of hairstyle! (this was before he had that nasty jawshave and became a swag prince and he actually looked pretty cute)



Ugh he looked cute in the other picture. Please don't dye it blond GD. EVER.


B.A.P's cutie Zelo also sported this nasty-ready-to-eat-yummy-instant-noodles type of hair as well!


I'm starting to crave some instant noodles.


Yammy aba indoooomieeeeee.


Because GD's bff Taeyang usually has nasty hair (Monster era blegh), I also expected him to try out curly hair. The results aren't as bad as GD's but it's still disastrous. This basically looks like my hair, on a bad hair day, when it's brushed. And the no.1 rule with curly hair is to never brush it, or else it will explode into a frizzy piece of mess. Taeyang has just broke this golden rule.


Here's another photo, for your entertainment. 


To cleanse your eyes from all the previous photos, I decided to skip directly onto the ladies despite having one last male to cover.


This is Hyuna, and we all know that this isn't an accurate representation of curly hair. For one thing, it's too perfect. Curly hair has many imperfections, for example; that bunch of hair that's straight just because. This is an example of beachy waves, a term created for people with straight hair who are so jealous of our god given curly hair that have found their own way to get it. So instead of sitting all day with the minuscule curler trying to get our fabulous curls, they oh so lazily put their hair in a braid and straighten it or use some other lazy method. This isn't fair because WHEN I WANT STRAIGHT HAIR I HAVE TO SLAVE AWAY WITH AN IRON OR GET MY HAIR TORN OFF WITH A BLOW DRYER. They should suffer too.


Here's another example of some beachy waves. It's more natural looking because you can see the random straight hairs sticking out along with the curls. 


I applaud you Fei. 


Here's the last one, our dear Myungsoo. Most Infinite fangirls are rabid Myungsoo fans. It's a known fact. Away from that, L is considered to have curly hair. I wouldn't really call that curly hair, its more frizzy than curly. But curly hair is usually very frizzy so I'll let this pass.


This sums up the post! Tell me if I've missed out some idols (which I probably had due to low determination levels).