Ben, you're not doing it right

I know, I know, you don't listen to rap/hip-hop. I hear you. But this is what happens when people take a song that empowers women and make it their own: it goes to number one. You have already heard WAP, the Cardi B -Meghan Thee Stallion collab that's lighting the end of the summer. It even inspired me to write one of the raunchiest posts you'll find this side of Uptown.

You see, when the song dropped the conservatives all reached for their collective pearls at the same moment. The song is a raunchy, fun, witty ode to women getting hot. Rapping about getting horny and getting your freak on is nothing new. Male rappers have been talking about pussy and about having their dicks sucked for YEARS (male Rock and Roll singers have done that, too). The thing is, now it was two women talking about pleasure and conservatives were not going to have any of it. I almost fell off my chair when Ben Shapiro, the sentient avatar for a Children of the Corn Pop Funko figurine.

As I also discussed on the show, my only real concern is that the women involved -- who apparently require a "bucket and a mop" -- get the medical care they require. My doctor wife's differential diagnosis: bacterial vaginosis, yeast infection, or trichomonis.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 10, 2020

Even I, with very limited knowledge about how to get women excited, know that when a woman gets wet, whomever made her wet is doing the right thing. But you know conservatives. They want to just be a killjoy when it comes to pleasure. Especially women's and gay men's. That's something that they cannot tolerate. Their thing is power grabs related to sexuality and freedom.

Also, the idea that women, especially Black women, would dare talk assertively about their sexuality and about their desire to have good sex is beyond comprehension for some wyt pipl. Women who rap, especially, fall in the category of 'Angry Black Woman', because the delivery in Rap is assertive, direct, unflinching. I would recommend listening to the point Dulcé Sloan makes about two Black women talking about their sexuality, especially in Rap/Hip-hop. When she brings Margo Price to do a Country version of WAP, you'll see what she means. People just can't with Black women being sexually assertive. It's simple. The patriarchy and white supremacy suffer a collective spasm. 




As a closer,  check out Bob the Drag Queen watch WAP with his MOM. Goddess, how I wish my mom were alive so I could have these kind of discussions with her.  My mom was very 'with it' and I'm sure she would have been down for this discussion. Even Bob's mom gets that's about women being assertive and even calls the song 'feminist' (which is letting women do their thing, just as men have done for centuries, natch).




All in all, it's all good for me when a raunchy song about getting good sex put out by two strong (and beautiful) Black women has had this impact. And some people say that music is either irrelevant or irreverent. It's irrelevant when people are so consumed by their ideology that they reveal to the world that they don't have the most rudimentary knowledge about sexuality. I, for one, am sorry for Ben's wife. Damn. Not having had the need for a bucket and a mop in all the years they've been together should sting.

XOXO

P.S. 

Oh, And Cardi B can surely talk about other things, too. And that's why wyt pple just cannot take it.