Do you want your child to grow up in a world like this? Tucker Carlson had to ask. And the recipient of his Very Serious query, Candace Owens, had to admit, she does not. “We are seeing the destruction of American values and principles and it’s terrifying,” she remarked as a guest on the Fox News host’s Monday night show. “I think parents should be terrified that this is the direction that our society is heading towards.”
The topic of discussion? Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s Sunday night Grammy performance of “WAP,” their sex-positive anthem from Summer 2020. (AKA the most terrifying thing conservatives have faced in recent memory.)
“They’re intentionally trying to degrade our culture and hurt our children.” Carlson also said in the near five-minute segment, in which he played the clip multiple times and also continued the Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head discourse. You can watch the conversation in full on The Daily Beast. But, you might be better off watching John Oliver break down Carlson’s career of white supremacist messaging.
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Wait ’til these two hear about the gun violence epidemic in America, which killed more than 41,000 people in this country last year. Or the crippling economic inequality the next generation faces. Or racism. Or climate change. Or the fact that the version of the song the two rappers performed Sunday night was the extremely cleaned up version of the cut.
Of course, this is hardly the first time the right has frothed over the song. It’s not even the first time Tucker Carlson has devoted a segment to “WAP”. In August, after hearing the song accidentally (?), Republican senatorial candidate James Bradley claimed that “Cardi B and Megan The Stallion are what happens when children are raised without God.” It made him, he went on in a tweet, want to pour Holy Water in his ears.
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Down the beach, another then-Republican candidate in California, DeAnna Lorraine, claimed on her own twitter account that the song set women back 100 years. I’d link it here but, after promoting QAnon theories, praising the Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, and sharing vile thoughts on immigrants, her account was suspended. (Also, she lost her campaign.)
As we know, all roads lead to Ben Shapiro, who then confirmed what we all secretly knew—sex with him is very boring—when he devoted a segment of his show The Daily Wire to an impossibly bland reading of the song’s lyrics. He then followed up on twitter, saying his “only real concern” is that both rappers get appropriate medical care for what he does not realize is just natural lubrication.
What inevitably comes up in all the conservative complaints is, Can this truly be feminism? There’s no sense in explaining to this lot that feminism does not mean you will like everything a woman—or, in this case two young, supremely talented women—creates. Feminism just means that you will respect their ability to express themselves artistically. So far, there has also been no sense in reminding them of the long list of men who have made equally scandalous fare. What do they think the Rolling Stones’s “Satisfaction” is about? Or Prince’s “Cream”? Or what the band White Snake named themselves after?
I’d be more upset if I thought this was even remotely bothering either artist. Truly, they are laughing all the way to the bank.
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