{"id":14184,"date":"2020-02-03T20:24:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T04:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/?p=14184"},"modified":"2020-02-03T20:42:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T04:42:28","slug":"j-lo-and-shakira-empowering-their-asses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/j-lo-and-shakira-empowering-their-asses\/","title":{"rendered":"J Lo and Shakira: Empowering, their asses!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/shakira-and-jlo-disempowering.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14186\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/shakira-and-jlo-disempowering.jpg?resize=500%2C499&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/shakira-and-jlo-disempowering.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/shakira-and-jlo-disempowering.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/shakira-and-jlo-disempowering.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What the hell is wrong with people? Even the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/03\/style\/jennifer-lopez-super-bowl.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">New York Times<\/a> is applauding the Superbowl half-time show as &#8220;empowering&#8221; for women! Some crap about proving that age is just a number, because look how hot J. Lo is at fifty years old!<\/p>\n<p>PLEASE tell me that you agree with me, that the show was as disempowering to women as if they&#8217;d been scrubbing dishes on their hands and knees.<\/p>\n<p>What is empowering about women having to wear stripper outfits and shake their asses? What is empowering about the hours spent getting hair extensions and spray tans and investing in personal trainers? I see it&#8217;s empowering for the people who provide the services and for the cosmetic surgery industry but for women?? Bitch please.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not empowering to feel you must look like you&#8217;re in your twenties when you&#8217;re fifty. It seems sad to me. Even Brad Pitt is allowed to look weathered. It seems like oppression. Maybe in the age of Trump, oppression is empowering?<\/p>\n<p>Shakira is gorgeous and I have to say she&#8217;s a really good dancer. She looks like a fit 43 year old. Not a miracle of make-up and hair professionals, but a genuine babe, you know? Good for her.<\/p>\n<p>But most of the accolades are going to Jennifer Lopez, who makes it look SO HARD, with every step and ass-wiggle seeming to visibly cause her anxiety. When is desperation empowering? When she sang something about &#8220;<em>I&#8217;m still Jenny from the block<\/em>&#8221; my husband and I both laughed out loud.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus Christ, empowering my flat ass.<\/p>\n<p>As for Demi Lovato singing the National Anthem, I&#8217;m relieved for her that she lived through it but what about just taking a knee??<\/p>\n<p>And no, I didn&#8217;t watch the whole show or any of the actual game, so don&#8217;t start with me.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m here, let me quote a recent message from a reader:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Damn, you\u2019ve got some serious self-loathing going on. Someone in standard issue old-lady-red lipstick should maybe throttle back the ageist bullshit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Haha, not a chance of throttling back anything! I&#8217;m just trying to make America great again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the hell is wrong with people? Even the New York Times is applauding the Superbowl half-time show as &#8220;empowering&#8221; for women! Some crap about proving that age is just a number, because look how hot J. Lo is at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/j-lo-and-shakira-empowering-their-asses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,8,7],"tags":[953,34,615],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/shakira-and-jlo-disempowering.jpg?fit=500%2C499&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-3GM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14184"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14191,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14184\/revisions\/14191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}