‘are the people who are trying to break you in the room with us right now, ms. ciccone?’

The world is threat­ened by my pow­er and my sta­mi­na. My in­tel­li­gence and my will to sur­vive.
But they will nev­er break me
this is all the test. pic.twitter.com/XvcaaG0Rrs

— Madon­na (@Madonna) Feb­ru­ary 7, 2023

OK Boomer.

You look like hell. That’s not why you should be dragged, but our youth-ob­sessed cul­ture ob­vi­ous­ly dri­ves the com­pul­sion to turn your­self into a liv­ing Madame Tussaud’s installment. 

It’s un­for­tu­nate and sad. But here you are say­ing you won’t be broken. 

But you’ve fucked with your face so much, I’m not sure you’re so firm in that conviction.
 

Madon­na is the de fac­to Queen of Pop and she’s worth al­most a cool bil­lion. She has more pow­er and con­trol than any­one can imagine.

And while I can re­spect the con­tri­bu­tions Madge has made to the mu­sic in­dus­try and the bound­aries she’s pushed, I can also think her ex­treme plas­tic surgery looks ter­ri­ble and that she’s be­ing tone deaf about her ob­scene wealth and privilege. 

These things aren’t mu­tu­al­ly exclusive.

She set the stan­dard dur­ing the 80s by which every oth­er fe­male pop artist was mea­sured – for more than a good twen­ty years.

But that’s not be­ing a rebel. That’s be­ing main­stream.

And while she start­ed out very much a rebel, she has not been for a very, very, very long time.

Women don’t have to uni­ver­sal­ly sup­port every oth­er woman in every­thing they do. Women are ca­pa­ble of do­ing dumb shit and we do dumb shit be­cause we’re human.

There’s a dif­fer­ence be­tween ar­bi­trar­i­ly shit­ting on some­one just be­cause you’re a misog­y­nist and call­ing out dumb shit. 

This is the latter.

 

—emi­ly duchaine

Flom­mist Emi­ly Duchaine lives in the Pa­cif­ic North­west. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and lis­ten to the Talk­ing Heads. She pre­tends to be a pro­fes­sion­al busi­ness­woman most days. Copy­right © 2023 Emi­ly Duchaine.

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