Ariana Grande felt 'sick and objectified' after fan encounter
Ariana Grande took to
Twitter on Tuesday to speak out against the pervasiveness of female
objectification in society after an insulting run-in with a misogynistic fan
left her feel degraded.
According
to a message the singer shared, she and boyfriend
Mac Miller were out picking up some food when a young man approached the
couple, excitedly telling Miller that he was a fan.
"He
was loud and excited and by the time M was seated in the driver's seat, he was
literally almost in the car with us," Grande recounted. "I thought
all of this was cute and exciting until he said 'Ariana is sexy as hell man. I
see you, I see you hitting that!!!'"
"Hitting
that? The f--k??" she continued. "This may not seem like a big deal
to some of you but I felt sick and objectified. I was also sitting right there
when he said it."
The
"Dangerous Woman" singer explained that she "felt really quiet
and hurt" after the encounter and that these are the "kinds of
moments that contribute to women's sense of fear and inadequacy."
"I am
not a piece of meat that a men gets to utilize for his pleasure," she
wrote. "I'm an adult human being in a relationship with a man who treats
me with love and respect."
Grande went
on to say that it "hurts my heart that so many young people are so
comfortable" when it comes to using
phrases that objectify women "with such ease."
"We
need to talk about these moments openly because they are harmful and they live
on inside of us as shame," she concluded. "We need to share and be
vocal when something makes up feel uncomfortable because if we don't, it will
just continue. We are not objects or prizes. We are QUEENS."
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