What Naomi Schaefer Riley wrote;
''What do you call a man who stands there smiling and singing as his
scantily clad wife straddles a chair and shakes her rear end for other
men's titillation
For years, these award ceremonies have pushed the envelope;
Beyonc(C)'s booty-shaking was certainly no worse than Miley Cyrus's
twerking or any number of other performances by Madonna, for instance.
But there's something particularly icky about doing it while your
husband looks on approvingly.
"Honestly, I didn't want to watch Jay Z and Beyonc(C)'s foreplay,"
says Charlotte Hays, author of "When Did White Trash Become the New
Normal" Indeed, the happy couple seems to have completely blurred the
line between what goes on in their bedroom and what happens on
national TV. So much for the woman that Michelle Obama has called "a
role model who kids everywhere can look up to."
Hays says, "It wasn't surprising to see Jay Z, looking pleased at his
wife's hyper-sexualized exhibition on stage." After all, "he's made a
living singing lyrics that call women 'bitches' and 'hos,' so we
shouldn't be surprised that he objectified his own wife on stage."
It is a little bit surprising, though, coming so soon after Beyonc(C)
contributed to the recent feminist manifesto, the Shriver Report. When
she complains that "gender equality is a myth," one wonders to what
extent her consent to sell sexuality has contributed to the problem''.
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.
