Put on Your Crown – Queen Latifah Book Giveaway
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I saw Queen Latifah on the Larry King show the other night making a plug for her book and it seems that the gist of it is and I quote “Every woman is a queen and deserves to be treated as one.” Uh, what? Meaning she should be waited on hand and foot by servants, maids and butlers? That she should live in bourgeois decadence never caring how her subjects live in squalor? Because that’s truly what royalty is all about. How about instead “Every woman is a woman and deserves to be treated with respect as a woman, just as every man is a man and deserves to be treated with respect as a man.” But I guess that doesn’t have the gimmicky sloganeering ring to it that Latifah’s statement does.
I’m sorry but it just irks me that some people still have this backwards, feudalistic mindset that idolizes royalty and wealth. This is 2010. There shouldn’t even BE any queens or kings in existence anymore. Idolizing royalty is to keep a mindset that gets in the way of progress. She’s famous enough now that if she just went by Latifah instead of Queen Latifah everyone this side of Mars would still know who she is so how about it Latifah? Can you drop the “Queen” from your name and get down here with the commoners who work for a living in the hot non-air-conditioned struggles of the poor? How about using that star power and gravitas to push for raising the minimum wage to a LIVING wage and real wealth redistribution in this country instead of calling yourself a queen and helping legitimize an oppressive status quo?
I’m gonna tone down my response to “Thinks” July 2010 remark. But, I think that that is silly as heck, to put it mildly. Latifah is saying women should treat themselves on a much higher level than they merely do. “Treat Yourself Like a Queen” is merely a pun, a play on words as well as a simile.
The example used where Think says living like a queen is to mistreat people is butt backwards. Queen-dom didn’t start in Europe with Kings, Queens & their squires & so on. This thing goes waaaaaay back. And there were people in some, many kingdoms who were wealthier than the King & Queen. Their empires in Africa where the king was wealthy wth long, old money. They lived lavishly & the ppl were’nt their subject bt citizens of the empire. Being much much wealthier than the people meant they had a responsibility to take care of them & they did. But, Latifah isn’t speaking of kingdoms, nor any of this. She’s merely saying be good to yourself, feel good about yourself like a queen ddoes when it comes to treating yourself or feeling special.
Why would you tae the ball & run down hill like you did? Where’s the negativity coming from when she’s trying t get women to love themselves. Don’t ill treat your freedom of speech.