marissa bentley miss rep follow up

I love both of these quotes by Lisa Ling and Rosario Dawson. I agree with them completely and I was not surprised at all by what i saw on the video (except the quote about how there are more women in politics in Afghanistan than America WOW shocker!) To me the saddest form of scrutiny for women  comes through modern music. I feel like men can sing/rap about whatever they want including gang violence, drug use, and derogatory comments about women and know one says anything! But heaven forbid if a women writes as song that is in any way degrading toward men or is meant to be empowering to women in any way she get criticized for it. A great example of this was in a recent news story i saw about Taylor Swift. Taylor swift is a beautiful young country singer who has recently branched into doing more pop songs. Like Lisa's quote her first couple of albums were more calm, country, innocent, and are a lot about her finding her "knight in stinging armor." She was praised a lot for her early work and even won a few awards. She was rarely in the tabloids and if so it was always good. She is known for writing mostly all of her music herself so of course a lot of her songs are self reflective and because over the past few years she has grown up a lot and been through a few hard breakups her newest albums reflect mostly that. I personally feel like most women go through what she has gone thorough over the past few years and like Rosario stated it is important that other women hear that and see that you CAN come out of the other side stronger. I applaud her for sharing her stories and heartbreak and I know that she is a role model to other women as well of all ages. Unfortunately, some people do not like her singing about all of her breakups and she has gotten a large amount of scrutiny lately because of it. For example at the most recent golden globes to women co-hosts took the time to point this out. 


http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/tina-fey-to-taylor-swift-golden-globes-dig-was-just-a-joke-20130306

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/03/06/taylor-swift-tina-fey-amy-poehler-hell-react/

in the follow up interview Taylor quoted feminist Katie Couric who said "There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.’”