HEY!!! QUEENS

Personally I'm enjoying this "empowered and liberated"/"I'm more than my body" power tussle women are engaging in. I mean in one breathe we mention how we're empowered, liberated, not bound by traditional norms and cultures so we're free to flaunt our bodies, keyword "our" specifically to remind the men not to advise us on modesty. Then as soon as men start to objectify women and talk about how the ass looks perfect to be tapped, we jump on the train of " I am more than a body". Sis for the life of me I don't get us.

What are we on about? First of all if you're a model, Onlyfans star, porn actress (and other similar careers), body activist, artiste, actress I totally understand why your full breast/ass is outside. The others though, WHAT IN THE BEJESUS HELL IS THAT?

Queens forget the whole liberation talk let's face it, we have the stage. We can be out here talking about fighting domestic violence amongst the underprivileged, legalising abortion so more women can live better lives, lending our voices to getting more women off the streets or a variety of other women's rights causes but we choose "liberation" in the form of objectifying our own bodies and selling ourselves as the perfect bedroom toy we fight so hard to claim we're not.

No I really need someone to make me understand what "The face, The Ass" is all about, "The face, The body", "The face, The titties" what in the actual f-word is that? Women. Sis it's really obvious your body is banging, trust me if you like wear boubou 24hrs like mummy Okonjo Iweala or wear dresses like Chimamanda, we still know your body's banging. You don't need to undress to tell us. Now before you quote me wrong, I am not saying these women up there are the standards we live by, I absolutely adore Ashley Graham, she's hardly fully dressed but that's the point, she's a model and body activist so that's her job. Korra Obidi too(I watch her Instagram like a movie) so my point's not to say fully clothed women should be the standard.

My point is there are a zillion ways to show you're an empowered woman, stripping and teasing online in the name of liberation isn't one and frankly it's distasteful. Also if your job doesn't require you to be half dressed, why are you? You know you encourage being objectified and please don't ask me to tell men to "do better" cause I totally objectified boys in the past because I don't know why a grown man would be dancing half naked and not want to be objectified. It's plain logic. If you're trying to sell lingerie and you're naked I understand it's your job, but don't do the "buss it" challenge with your thong literally out and then cry "men are animals" when they're drooling in your DM, were you expecting Bible verses or a medal honouring you for honouring women and our rights to be sexy. Oh you think I only just felt liberated after you paved the way with your naked twerk video, you mean I waited for you to get naked to enable me appreciate my body? Same body I awwwww at in front of my mirror every morning but your liberation showed me the way? Come off it.

Like I said there are still so many wars to be fought on our journey to liberation, to making rules that directly affect us by ourselves and we can't twerk our way through it all. If we're going to be taken seriously, we need to first become serious ourselves. Women stop objectifying yourselves, it's distasteful.

By the way I love all of us "woke" or not. We're all QUEENS, we deserve the crown. Own it.