When actress Rashida Jones admonished female pop stars for âacting like whores,â she set off a firestorm of criticismâand started a conversation about the pornification of everything.
Rashida Jones bristles at the suggestion that sheâs a prude.
âI love sex,â the 37-year-old actress and writer declared recently in Glamour magazine. âHell, Iâve even posed in my underwear.â But Jones also bristles at an instinct so common among young female pop stars to showcase their private parts, Ă la Miley Cyrus gyrating on stage in latex scanties. Last October, Jones created a mini-furor when she tweeted, âThis weekâs celeb news takeaway: she who comes closest to showing the actual inside of her vagina is most popular #stopactinglikewhores.â
That seemingly innocuous dig at Cyrus, Rihanna, and other hypersexualized stars provoked a predictable firestorm on Twitterâaccused most commonly of âslut-shamingâ âwhich forced Jones into the pages of Glamour to mount a (more than 140 character) defense. The Parks and Recreation star declared an openness to sex but wariness of the âpornification of everythingâ and the âhomogenousâ and sexualized image that young women in the music industry are promoting.
âEvery star interprets âsexyâ the same way: lots of skin, lots of licking of teeth, lots of bending over. I find this oddly⊠boring,â Jones wrote. âI understand that owning and expressing our sexuality is a huge step forward for women. But, in my opinion, we are at a point of oversaturation.â
Itâs a topic Jones will expand upon during a panel at the Women in the World Summit on April 5, alongside Colorado psychologist Tomi-Ann Roberts and 16-year-old Winnifred BonJean-Alpart, who was featured in âSexy Baby,â a documentary about how the digital age is changing our cultureâs sexual landscape.
Jones, daughter of music mogul Quincy Jones, makes a decidedly feminist argument about todayâs sex-obsessed starlets. âIâm just asking people to take a breath and talk about it,â she told The Guardian in February. âI also wanted to say thereâs more than one way to be a woman and be sexyâlike, youâre a really great dancer, or youâre really fucking smart.â
Heaving bosoms and ever-shrinking outfits have long been constants in the pop video world, but it was early last fall, after watching Cyrus masturbate on stage at MTVâs Music Video Awards with a giant styrofoam finger and Rihanna indulge in stripper fantasies in her âPour It Upâ video (watched 107 million times on YouTube) that Jones decided sheâd âhad enough.â
Sure, Miley Cyrus is condoning stereotypes perpetuated by patriarchy. But is it right to condemn her for using her sex appeal in an industry which often values sexiness above talent?
âThis isnât showing female sexuality; this is showing what it looks like when women sell sex,â she wrote. Indeed, there is nothing subtle about Rihanna simulating sex with the back of a golden throne, clapping her ass cheeks and âmaking it rainâ money from her denim thong in âPour It Up,â which was released just days after Miley Cyrus twerked half-naked, her flaccid tongue hanging out of her mouth.
Making that argument in 140 characters or less is impossible, of course, and Jones was âcrushedâ by the backlash, particularly the accusations that she was slut-shaming other women. Jones explained in Glamour that âthere is a difference, a key one, between âshamingâ and âholding someone accountable.ââ
Sheâs right, and her assertion underscores social mediaâs climate of outrageâparticularly among feministsâin which terms like âslut-shamingâ are used to squelch debate, so that the conversation becomes less about the subject at hand (in this case, that pop stars are objectifying themselves and not taking responsibility for being role models to young girls) than about the language deployed by the person addressing that subject. Whenever women voice opinions about other womenâs sexual behavior, the hashtag fascists invariably accuse them of #slutshaming.
But the hashtag fascists are missing the point: Jonesâs tweet was hyperbolic, but she was condensing a more serious concern. And she felt compelled to clarify it in a platform that justifies her feminist bona fides.
Indeed, her feature in Glamour reflects one side of a familiar debate: the older woman in the entertainment business warning the ingenues about an industry that will inevitably exploit them, and prevailing on them to keep their tongues in their mouths. The other side is that of Rihanna and Cyrus, who refuse to take responsibility for being role models to young girls because they quite simply donât want to be role models. And can we blame Cyrus for wanting to shed her image as the Disney Channelâs Hannah Montanaâto rebel and gain power over her scantily clad peers?
Cyrus may feel a sense of empowerment in sexual expressionâin straddling a wrecking ball or a white plaster horse; in putting on latex skivvies and grinding up against Robin Thickeâparticularly when she knows that doing so will earn her attention and money, both powerful currencies for female pop stars. Sure, sheâs condoning stereotypes perpetuated by patriarchy. But is it right to condemn her for using her sex appeal in an industry which often values sexiness above talent?
Jonesâs Glamour feature raises more questions than it answersâand thatâs a good thing. Much as she wishes empowerment and exploitation didnât go hand in hand in our society, she supports all pop stars trying to navigate the increasingly elusive territory between the two.
âLetâs at least try to discuss the larger implications of female sexuality on pop culture without shaming each other,â Jones wrote. âThereâs more than one way to be a good feminist. Personally, I loved the Lily Allen âHard Out Hereâ videoâa controversial send-up of tits-and-ass culture. She helped start a conversation. Letâs continue it.â
Rashida Jones’s Doubles for the Pornification of Pop
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