13 A-List celebrities no one will remember very soon (With Pictures)

12. Beyonce

For a woman who claims to care about gender equality, as someone who wrote a piece about women not making up 50% of the workforce, the fact that Lemonade only had 10% of women writers (6 out of 55), which included Beyonce herself, can we really call Beyonce’s album a “feminist masterpiece”? That would be inaccurate. Only 11% were producers.

Let’s take a look at the lyrics. She says, “You can watch my fat ass twist boy/As I bounce to the next d*ck boy.” That is not female empowerment, either: that is a woman that appears to be catering to the male gaze. We are not here to say whether Beyonce is or isn’t a feminist, but we are here to say that her image is a manufactured one, used to sell.

She is nothing more than a woman capitalizing on the feminist movement, her words ringing as hollow as Kim Kardashian’s nude selfies in the name of “empowerment.” If we strip Beyonce of this feminist image, there isn’t much left that isn’t all that different from every other disposable pop song out there today…