Hey look, it’s hot Beyonce! … I mean, not that there’s really any other Beyonce besides hot Beyonce, so that fact kind of makes the aforementioned opinion mildly redundant, but here’s the statement we’re — and hopefully, she’s — trying to make:
you don’t need to be showing off your cracks, crevices, lady bits, or areola to be gorgeous. Not even close. Even that midriff of hers: sure, it’s positively flawless and what not, but if she’d gone and covered it up, this picture would still be just as lovely.
“Beyonce, feminist icon”? Try rolling that phrase around in your mouth for a few minutes; see how it slips off your tongue. You might be a little reluctant at first, and think of all that awful “Partition” business second, but we’re either over-thinking this little photo, or there’s a whole lot going on behind the doors of Beyonce’s gorgeous face than she’s normally given credit for.
Either one of those, or here’s a third option: she’s learning some valuable lessons lately pertaining to the difference between behavior that brings you up instead of that which holds you down.
