Feminists Hate On Rihanna’s “Violently Misogynistic” Music Video

By: Laura Meyers

Only nutty feminists would be able to take a music video that was directed and produced by a black, female artist in which a gang of women kidnap another woman and kill her husband because of a bad money deal and somehow twist it all into a “violent representation of misogyny.”

*Eye roll*

Since its release just 5 days ago, Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money” music video already has over 16,000 views on YouTube and an angry feminist mob following.

If anarchist men and feminists have anything in common, they’re always online and they’re always watching for potential troll-bait.

Barbara Ellen, writer for The Guardian immediately wrote a rebuttal to the video’s release titled “Rihanna self-indulgent is not clever. It’s pure misogyny.”

Where to start with Rihanna’s video for Bitch Better Have My Money? It seems traditional to apologise for being too white and past-it to comment on any video by a young black artist. But tough, because I’m not going to. Then there’s the fact that Rihanna has produced better songs than this (sub-Sia ear-dung), and the seven-minute video (co-directed by Rihanna herself) primarily comes across as a painfully obvious self-indulgent attempt to revive industry interest in her God-awful acting.

And the Haterade continues:

The main issue here is surely: misogyny, who’s allowed to do it? And the only answer can be: nobody. It’s even difficult to excuse it on the grounds of artistic expression, given how crude is the video. I always felt that sometime Rihanna collaborator Eminem’s material featuring murdered women (Bonnie & Clyde; Kim) worked as urban cartoons, within which he made valid points about the fragile nature of uncontrolled male rage.

By contrast, BBHMM’s plot (I’m angry with an accountant so I’m gonna kill his chick) has no nuance no artistry. Moreover, just because, in Rihanna’s musical sphere and beyond, there are misogynistic male artists, this doesn’t automatically give her the same “privileges”. Not only is reversing gender roles very pat and tired, BBHMM doesn’t even follow through properly.

Rihanna already has the (clothed) male victim, to make her unwieldy plot work, but still the (unclothed) female is added – obviously to increase the sex quotient. Apparently, it’s not “HOT!” enough to spend a seven-minute video merely killing a man. Again comparing the similar furore surrounding Eminem, he never seemed to need to add naked male victims. (Funny that.)

But the music video’s lead female star, model and actress Rachel Roberts, thought otherwise.

Roberts said the offer of her part was “irresistible,” and that Rihanna is “an undeniable talent.”

“The video was Rihanna’s concept. She co-directed it, so she personally cast me. Despite her out-there public image, she’s very professional and hands-on. The whole thing was an insane thrill ride. Helicopters, boats, gunfire, stunts, holding my breath underwater, a dozen locations and a Pomeranian toy dog.”

But when there’s something that is nearly acceptable to all decrees of feminazi dogma, the lady mob of the Internet is forced to find something racist, privileged, or misogynist about it because victimhood never sleeps.

Video disclosure: Boobs.