Slow clap for Ariana Grande.
Sunday, June 7, she shared an empowering essay on social media about the double standards of our society. The 21-year-old singer wrote the essay in response to quotes she gave The Sun about how she feels men and women are capable of being platonic friends.
After eight months of dating, it was well documented that Ariana split with Big Sean this past April. However she was quickly linked to One Direction’s Niall Horan after after she was spotted leaving his house at 3 a.m.
“I’m tired of needing to be linked to a guy,” she said. “I’m not Big Sean’s ex, I’m not Niall’s new possible girl. I’m Ariana Grande.”
Following her split, Grande has been focused on her career. “I have clearly not been having the boy questions in my interviews lately because I have come to the realization that I have SO. MUCH. MORE. to talk about,” she wrote. “I’m currently making the best music I’ve ever made in my life, having the best time of my life on tour with some of the greatest people I’ve ever known, working my ass off every single day.”
“I come from a long bloodline of female activists,” the “Love Me Harder” crooner continued. “My aunt Judy was the first Italian american female president of the national press club in Washington, D.C. I think she would have been proud of me for speaking up about something that has been bothering me personally for so long… If a woman has a lot of sex (or any sex for that matter)… she’s a ‘slut.’ If a man has sex…. HE’S. A. STUD. A BOSSSSSS. a KING… If a woman even TALKS about sex openly… she is shamed!”
Grande wrote that she wanted to see this double standard squashed. “Misogyny [is] still ever present,” she wrote. “I can’t wait to live in a world where people are not valued by who they’re dating / married to / attached to, having sex with (or not) / seen with…. but by their value as an individual. I want the people reading this to know that they are MORE THAN enough on their own.”
“I’m saying this after literally 8 years of feeling like I constantly had to have a boy by my side,” Grande confessed. “After being on my own now for a few months I am realizing that that’s just not the case… I have never felt more present, grounded, and satisfied. I’ve never laughed harder or had more fun or enjoyed my life more.”
She’s already artists like Taylor Swift and Rita Ora support her.
My two-cents: Go girl. This double standard is ridiculous and it’s time it be addressed.
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