Rashida Jones to Rihanna, Miley and Nicki Minaj: #stopactinglikewhores
"You know you want to have sex with me. Here, take a look at lots of parts of my body." This is how Rashida Jones describes the mentality of today's pop stars. In her essay, "Why Is Everyone Getting Naked? Rashida Jones on the Pornification of Everything," Jones slams Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj and Lady Gaga on their overly sexualized personas.
Funny girl Rashida Jones just went there. The media has exploded into shock after Jones released an essay for Glamour talking about how "oddly boring" she finds today's pop stars. "If 1994 was the Year of O.J.'s White Bronco, 2013 was the Year of the Very Visible Vagina." Rashida explains that it all started when she decided to catch up on "pop-culture stuff" with her sisters. She says she watched some videos, visited some Instagram accounts and checked out some blogs. What she found was Rihanna's "Pour it Up" video, Miley's tongue licking her teeth and Nicki Minaj's Halloween pasties. The I love You Man star says that Lady Gaga's "butt-crack cover art" for her song [that goes] "Do what you want with my body" was the last straw. "I was just done, I'd had enough." So... she went off.
"Let me say upfront: I am not a prude. I love sex; Hell, I've even posed in my underwear. I also grew up on a healthy balance of sexuality in pop stars, [Madonna, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston and Cyndi Lauper] Women who played with sexuality but didn't make it their calling card." She goes on to say that today it is different, these stars are all about sexuality, even taking to twitter to post the now famous hashtag, "#stopactinglikewhores." The opinionated writer says she wanted to know if anyone else felt like her, and that's why she took to twitter with posts like "I think we ALL need to take a look at what we are accepting as the norm" and "There is a whole generation of young women watching. Sure, be SEXY but leave something to the imagination".
Today people are saying that Rashida's overly blunt statements can be damaging to her career. Putting down fellow stars and, most importantly, women doesn't sit well with many people. Rihanna, for example, is one celebrity who doesn't let criticism like this slide by. We can be sure to hear a snappy response from the Barbadian bad girl who has never shut her mouth for, well...anybody. On the other hand, Jones clearly states that she "doesn't shame anyone for anything they choose to do with their lives and bodies," she just wants to "like a song without having to take an ultrasound tour of some pop star's privates." Oh Rashida, you say the darnest things.