Sinead O'Connor, the one-hit-wonder known for her remake of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U and destroying her own career on Saturday Night Life by ripping up a photograph of the Pope, has found a way back into the media by becoming every pop culture fan's biggest troll.
Her open letters to Mylie Cyrus denounced the young artist, accusing her of selling her sexuality. But her tangential rants sprawled aimlessly. Targeting a 16 year old Britney Spears video for Hit Me Baby One More Time, O'Connor criticized the sexualization of Spears' school girl outfit forgetting that Steven Tyler put his own daughter in the same outfit a few years earlier for Aerosmith's Crazy video.
She managed to garner some support for her comments, but what she said simply comes down to slut shaming. Unfortunately such an act can easily be veiled by someone as politically active as Sinead O'Connor. How can a vocal advocate for the empowerment of femininity be lumped in with the likes of Rush Limbaugh? Because O'Connor isn't advocating for femininity, rather a gender blind neutrality where you're free to be sexy as long as it isn't sexy.
Her beef with the Biebs wasn't as expansive as her open letters to Mylie Cyrus and any other famous female who dared wear a heel higher than a twenty year old Birkenstock. Maybe that's because O'Connor recognizes that she doesn't have the same frame of reference when it comes to male artists.
If she wanted to truly make her point, she could have pointed out the double standard that exists because the sexualization of male and female artists. Instead she just proved her own ignorance, showing us exactly why celebrities shouldn't be political roll models.
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