Conservative media desperately trying to throw water on Beyoncé’s feminist moment

By Amanda Marcotte
Monday, August 25, 2014 11:30 EDT

Beyoncé did her song “***Flawless” last night as part of a bigger—20 minutes!—set at the MTV Video Music Awards, and clearly conservatives are threatened. I expect that this is going to get ugly quickly, but the initial reaction is to try to deny that she could be a feminist because, of course, she likes sex. There’s no doubt that having Beyoncé out there hyping feminism is a big deal, so conservatives are desperately trying to take it away by claiming that she’s not really a feminist, because they, as people who hate feminism and want to wipe it out, are the self-appointed arbiters of what feminism is.