Sky Ferreira Discusses Sexist Article: “I’m Not A Think Piece”
Last week, LA Weekly ran an aggressively stupid piece about Sky Ferreira that was way more about her perceived sexiness than it was about her music. The second sentence in the entire fucking thing was this: “Both Sky and Madonna have similar breasts in both cup size and ability to cause a shitstorm.” Not long afterward, the newspaper ran an apology from the music editor that was almost as dumb. (I’m not linking either one, but you can find them easily enough on your own if you want.) Plenty of other writers have already weighed in about this bullshit. And now, in a long string of tweets, so has Ferreira herself. Ferreira points out that she shouldn’t even have to comment about how ridiculous this is but that she doesn’t want anyone to think that she’s weak or compliant. And she also writes that she reads comments like these about herself altogether too often. Below, read everything Ferreira wrote on Twitter.
This is not my "official statement" about the @LAWeekly article:
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
95 percent of articles & interviews about me have had something offensive,false or (sometimes extremely) sexist.
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
Some have been more passive aggressive or subtle & socially acceptable.
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
I'm obviously a lot more than my "sex appeal" or my "knockers". I'm not ashamed of either of those things either.
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
It's not calculated or whatever. I do what I want when I feel it's true to me.
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
If there was some sort of formula all of this would be a lot easier and faster & probably more "successful"
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
I spend/spent so much time being frustrated by this type of bullshit that it really took a toll on me in a personal level.
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
I'm not a think piece. I'm not a fucking example. I'm glad that this is making people think & conversation is happening
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
& I appreciate people speaking against it and being vocal
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
I'm done with the "success has 1000 fathers,failure has none" bullshit. The reason good or bad & who I am or whatever I've done is ME
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
I didn't respond in the heat of the moment because what I actually have to say is a lot more than a "response" or "rant" to some article
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
A part of me didn't want or at first care to respond because I don't think it deserves that sort of power or attention/validation
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
But I also know it would probably seem as if I don't care or I'm okay with it or weak. When I obviously do for obvious reasons.
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
People will take or see whatever they want from this probably. For example: "defends Terry Richardson" I never defended him.
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
I have never worked with him since. I even said my own experience doesn't take away or against the victims.
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
All I said was that I didn't get sexually abused or had any sexual relations with him after journalist kept writing as if I did over & over
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
If you're not a bitch or then you're fake. If you're not crazy or difficult then you're boring & helpless
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
Stupid is probably somewhere in there too
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
You're either too fat or too thin or too pretty or ugly. That's the what I've l have been told my whole life since I was a little girl.
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
I've always been "too much" or "never enough". At the point I care about the work I make because that's what actually lasts & matters
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
& my well being so I can make it. The people who understand me as an artist & my work is what I care about.
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
The people who don't…Oh well.
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
& that it does have consequences & contributes to sexism in general
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016
There's no such thing as an "IDEAL WOMAN", people.
— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) June 21, 2016