Friday, April 16, 2010
Beyonce and Baartman
In class the other day we had a guest speaker that talked about Beyonce and Baartman and how they are alike. I have to disagree with his speach. He talked about how Baartman was a freak show because of her butt and he compaired Beyonce to that. I feel like beyonce has nothing to do with that, he showed us a vedio clip of a song Beyonce sings and compaired her and one of the ways he compaired her was because Beyonce shacks her butt. In todays socity that is how things are very vilent and sexual. I feel like the only way you can get someones attention is to do something sexual and the song talked about putting on a dress that makes you feel good about yourself. Im pretty sure Baartman did not feel good about her self because she was being forced to show her body off. Almost all music vedios have some kind of sexual singnal in it so i dont think it you can say Beyonce was like her because she was doing what almost every artist does show there body off. Beyonce song also does show her walking down a run and he discribe that people staring at her. I dont think there staring if she is putting herself out in fornt of everybody and that is totaly different in my view than Baartman. And if this video was made to mimic Baartman than I kinda think like that is mean to copy someone who was forced into doing something. I think that Beyonce is a artist like alot of other people and in order to attract women and men she sings about women things but does durty dancing to attract the men.
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