From Cardi B's Twitter:
I was thinking that I should say that I shouldn't have called Cardi B a pathetic tramp earlier today, that it's not a feminist thing to say. Then I did a Google search, which has a lot of positive publicity for her and this disgusting, exploitative, degrading song. Knowing what I now know about how celebrity publicists plant publicity, knowing also that the entire music industry has participated in and encouraged vicious crimes for a decade and counting, and also knowing that PornHub and thousands of other pornography websites pay perpetrators to film rape and are corrupting children as young as 11, it's difficult to say which factors have contributed the most to the song's success.
The difference between the way that the industry treats me and the way that it treats Cardi B is an extreme example of what's already been going on since 2010. The song is about me. Purple has been a code color for me since 2010. It's not a coincidence that she's wearing it. It's not a coincidence that the SNL parody of BBQ Becky had "Becky" wearing a purple sweatshirt. It's not a coincidence that the Hasbro Trolls Poppy doll had purple underwear.
As the years are passing and the abuse and criminality are normalized, Cardi B is one of what is probably a gathering crowd of bullies whose attacks will be even more vicious, invasive and obscene.
Women who refuse to be hypersexualized by the entertainment industry, and women who defend the right of everyone not to be sexually assaulted, are sexually assaulted by that industry.
I shouldn't have called Cardi B a pathetic tramp. It wasn't a feminist way to describe her horrifying ignorance, her vicious criminality and her obscene exploitation not only of her own life but of Black Lives Matter.
