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So, About Those Janelle Monae and Wale Music Videos...

Hi Guys! Happy Wednesday. This video is about a couple of music videos I've seen recently, one of which is the 'Yoga' video by Janelle Monae, and the other being 'The Girls On Drugs,' by Wale. Both videos highlighted the misogynoir (that spot where race and sex intersect) that Black women face on a daily basis in society: Janelle Monae appears in 'sexy' yoga attire and asks people not to police her sexuality on the one hand, while Wale lectures a set of three young Black girls on their partying lifestyles on the other. Women, and especially Black women, have to live our daily lives according to a certain set of rules on what makes us 'respectable' or not, and it is especially difficult when dealing with both racism and sexism. Monae has sent longterm fans into a tizzy with her yoga pants and lyrics about 'posing and flexing;' they were used to hearing her non-comformist message coming from a suit and saddle shoes. Wale painted a portrait of three young women single and living life through a drug-fueled, social media fog; however, it was an imperfect image that posed the young Black women as shallow and self-absorbed without any real critique of the culture and society that glorifies and glamorizes such lifestyles. Wale's video also didn't show any excessively self-destructive behavior (it was FAR from Rihanna's, 'We Found Love,' for example) and came off more or less as a preachy morality tale about what happens to 'bad girls' that don't stay home every night. (And lyrics like, 'I'm looking for a real woman but she just wants to be wild' only further this point.) Black women do not have to play games of respectability politics to deserve or garner respect. Janelle Monae is a talented, accomplished artist regardless of whether or not she is singing in yoga pants or a full suit; and while there is a discussion to be had about the effects of drug abuse and social media on a fame-hungry society, bashing individual women instead of examine the context of how they got there is not the way to go about it. Not to mention, there is nothing INHERENTLY wrong with young women going out, having fun, or even occasionally engaging in drugs and/or alcohol. Women, and especially Black women, are held to an impossible standard of things we have to say or do in order to be seen as 'respectable.' Just as I encourage people not to engage to race-respectablity politics to be seen as human beings worthy of respect, women don't have to do it, either. Thanks for watching. Links: 'Yoga:'    • Janelle Monáe, Jidenna - Yoga (Official Vi...   'The Girls On Drugs:'    • Wale - The Girls On Drugs (Official Video)   'Unpretty:'    • TLC - Unpretty (Official HD Video)   '[Get Off My Areola!] Janelle Monae Breaks It Down In New 'Yoga' Video:' http://necolebitchie.com/2015/04/jane...