Dear Pop Stars, Rashida Jones Is Still Tired Of Seeing Your Vagina

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    Fri, Dec 06 2013 by Bitchie Staff | Filed Under: Celebrities

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    Actress Rashida Jones (daughter to legendary music producer Quincy Jones) continues to shade your favorite pop stars.

    Last month, she sent off a series of tweets against celebs “acting like whores” and she’s taken her controversial statements straight to Glamour magazine.

    In an article titled “The Pornification of Everything” she actually named a few names, while admitting that she has had enough of the year of the “Very Visible Vagina”:

    […] at the end of October, a month that had already brought us the Miley Cyrus cross-continental twerk-a-thon and Nicki Minaj’s Halloween pasties. With the addition of Rihanna writhing on a pole in her “Pour It Up” video, and Lady Gaga’s butt-crack cover art for the song that goes “Do what you want with my body,” I was just done. I’d had enough.

    I don’t know when the pornification of pop stars became so extreme, but as Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” video played in the background—naked fantasy women bouncing around and licking things—I realized that the lines were not really blurry at all. They were clear. A new era had arrived. If 1994 was the Year of O.J.’s White Bronco, 2013 was the Year of the Very Visible Vagina.

    She continued:

    Let me say up front: I am not a prude. I love sex; I am comfortable with my sexuality. Hell, I’ve even posed in my underwear. I also grew up on a healthy balance of sexuality in pop stars. Yes, we had Madonna testing the boundaries of appropriateness, but then we also had Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, and Cyndi Lauper, women who played with sexuality but didn’t make it their calling card. And for every 2 Live Crew “Me So Horny” video girl, there was Susanna Hoffs singing tenderly about her eternal flame.

    She went on to discuss the negative feedback she received for speaking up:

    I’m not gonna lie. The fact that I was accused of “slut-shaming,” being anti-woman, and judging women’s sex lives crushed me. I consider myself a feminist. I would never point a finger at a woman for her actual sexual behavior, and I think all women have the right to express their desires. But I will look at women with influence—millionaire women who use their “sexiness” to make money—and ask some questions. There is a difference, a key one, between “shaming” and “holding someone accountable.”

    Please stop saying you don’t want to be role models. Because, guess what: You are. You want to sell millions of albums? You want to sell out a tour? You depend on the millions of people who adore you. So maybe just consider some sort of moral exchange program, in the same way that carbon credits make people feel better about driving an SUV. Go ahead and make videos in which your ass cheeks slap water around in slow motion; go ahead and tweet pictures of your undercarriage. But perhaps every eleventh song or video, do something with some more clothes on? Maybe even a song that empowers women to feel good about some other great quality we have? Like, I don’t know…our empathy, or childbearing skills, or ability to forgive one another for mean tweets?

    She also ended the piece by calling out men to speak up and make their voices heard about the subject:

    WHERE ARE YOU??? Please talk to us about how all this makes you feel. You are 49 percent of the population; don’t sit around and let women beat one another up while you intermittently and guiltily enjoy the show. Speak up! We care what you think!

    Yeah, okay. Don’t expect any “MEN AGAINST WOMEN SHOWING T&A” marches anytime soon.

    Other than that, Rashida raises some good points.

    What do you think?

    Catch the entire article over at Glamour!

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