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From the now banned ad campaign for the Rogue perfume to the
Swarovski encrusted Adam Selman dress Rihanna wore to the CFDA awards, we have
known, and are constantly reminded that Rihanna does not care about social
norms. Her fearless bearing it all approach to style has had people buzzing
before, but when you step out in a see through dress just wearing a nude thong,
people are going to talk even more.
I would have been one of those people a
few years back that said Rihanna was too much. She was hurting the feminist
movement and not helping it. But you know what, she's not. I think anyone that
shames her and makes statements that she is leading to the "thot culture"
doesn't get what the whole feminist movement is. I think the reason people
can't jump on the bandwagon of what feminism really is, is because people what
everyone to fit their own brand of feminism. Whether it be Rihanna or Miley
Cyrus, by being risky and taking ownership of their own bodies, they’re helping
feminism. They are taking ownership and power over who they are. Just because I
or you wouldn’t do the same doesn’t mean what they are doing is necessarily bad.
We shouldn’t shame these people for being nude, because no one is forcing them
to do it. It's their own choice, and they are consenting adults in an
environment where other options exist. Many might not agree and I was a part of
the many before, but just because someone doesn’t fit what you believe woman
should wear or do, doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
Granted we can say Rihanna is in the
public eye and young children and teens are looking to her and emulating the
things she does. While that may be true I think that using that argument for a
reason she needs to tone down is invalid. While media and celebrities do influence
children, the main influences is the family and the way a child is raised. We
need to stop putting the burden of the changing social landscape on the shoulders
of celebrities and put it on the parents in the household. Rihanna did not make
girls slutty, she didn’t make them thots. Famous or not people are their own entities,
and they should be able to do whatever they want with their own body. Rihanna
works in a sector that she can be risqué without fear of repercussion, she
lives in a plane many cannot. So if she wants to be free and show her tits, why
not? It's her body and there’s no boss to fire her for it later.
I might not personally dress like Rihanna
does, but I love how she dresses. I love her approach to style and life and how
she is just Rihanna. She's not trying to be a role model, she's not trying to
be a feminist leader. She's a woman living her life. While power comes with
being a public figure, it isn't her job to censor herself to make other people
feel comfortable.
She won the award for being a style icon at the CFDA Awards and
she is. That dress the styling, the makeup, whatever you want to say about it
you cant deny that it was beautiful, it was enchanting. If you care about the
fashion industry, care about fashion you can't deny that it was really just
something spectacular. Maybe not an elegant spectacular as a Zac Posen dress
coming down the runway, but something noteworthy none the less.
