It looks like the beef between Cardi B and Madonna ended before it even began, minus the flurry of Twitter activity it caused on Sunday.

上周末，麦当娜在她的1992年书中反思了S.E.X.and suggested she paved the way for sex-positive stars like Miley Cyrus, Kim Kardashian and Cardi B.

In a now-expired Instagram story, Madonnawrote: “30年前，我出版了一本书，名为“ S.E.X.”除了我赤裸裸的照片外，还有男人亲吻男人，女人亲吻女人和我亲吻所有人的照片。”麦当娜写道。"I also wrote about my sexual fantasies and shared my point of view about sexuality in an ironic way."

她接着说，这本书成为了她在随后几年所接受的采访的焦点，她说她说“思想狭窄”，并补充说她被称为妓女，女巫，一个异教徒和魔鬼。

Madonna then suggested that because of her,“ Cardi B可以唱歌，金·卡戴珊（Kim Kardashian）可以用裸露的屁股来掩饰任何杂志的封面，而麦莉·赛勒斯（Miley Cyrus）可以像破坏球一样进来。”All of that before the finishing line, “You’re welcome bitches,”带有小丑表情符号，将其全部结束。

The clown emoji appeared to be the tipping point for Cardi B, who fired back quickly and swiftly on social media in now-deleted tweets.

"I literally [paid] this woman homage so many times 'cause I grew up listening to her… she can make her point without putting clown emojis and getting slick out the mouth. These icons really become disappointments once [you] make it in the industry. That's why I keep to myself,"she tweeted.

There’s不denying that Madonna was a pioneer of sex positivity. But she wasn’t the only one. And her claim of walking so that Kim, Cardi and Miley could run is a bit narrow-minded herself, considering the swath of other sex positive pioneers there were in the era she’s referring to – and many of them were women of colour.

By making this claim, Madonna is doing what a lot of白人女权主义者always have – whitewashing and erasing work that was actually mostly done by Black women. She, like so many other white feminists we’ve seen do this before, is taking credit for work she may havecontributedto in part, but certainly is not entirely responsible for. This sums it up pretty nicely:

I’m thinking of women like singer and model Grace Jones, recently honoured by Beyoncé onRenaissance, whose name became synonymous with sexual freedom and liberation over the years because of the honest nature in which she wrote and sang about sex. She juggled androgynous looks and personas, alternating between butch and super femme ensembles. It was 1975 when she made her world premiere with her song,I Need A Man, which also came with a视频of her dancing provocatively (at least for the 1970s, anyway). This song became an anthem in New York’s gay club scene. In an interview withPitchfork汤姆•默尔顿琼斯的佤邦描述早期生产商tching her perform this song for the members-only crowd at New York’s12 Westgay bar, saying once her performance was done, she looked at the crowd and said,“I don't know about you, honey, but I need a f-cking man!”完全领先于她。

In addition to Grace Jones, there were women like Donna Summer, whose song,Love to Love You Babyfeatured the record’s famous moaning, which were all audio representations of orgasms, made possible only when producers dimmed the lights in the studio. According to Time magazine, who did aninterviewwith Summer in December of 1975, there were 22 orgasms in total in the extended version of the song. She told the magazine that she had to set aside her Christian beliefs in order to write the song because it was just that sexual.

"I let go long enough to show all the things I've been told since childhood to keep secret,"she said at the time.

So by the time Madonna came on to the scene in the 1980s with hits like像处女，她正在基础上为琼斯和夏天等女性在流行文化中放松性生活的工作而建立了基础。她是白人和金发女郎的事实 - 除了是一个毫无疑问的娱乐活动外，她在追求名望方面都非常适合她。但这也使她更容易推动信封，她一直在1990年代继续这样做。

但是，还有像Foxy Brown，Trina和Lil Kim这样的女性在音乐行业的说唱方面做同样的事情。莉尔·金（Lil Kim）在职业生涯的早期就在臭名昭著的B.I.G.的首张专辑中进行了90秒的短剧。您会听到一张吱吱作响的床的音频，她像萨默斯一样在赛道上mo吟。从那里开始，她的名字和音乐成为了性的代名词。她随后的热门歌曲成为该类型中的第一首歌，这些歌曲以女性为特色，明确地说明了性愉悦。她当然dressedthe part, too.

Depending on who you are or where you’re from, women like Foxy Brown, Trina and Lil Kim don’t mean a thing to you. But if you know Cardi B, you, by proxy, know these women. Becausethesewere the ones who walked so she could run. And these were the ones that did it in a genre that was mostly male-dominated.

这很艰难，因为我爱麦当娜。即使在64岁时，我也喜欢她维持自己的性行为，并以自己的方式自称。当然，这给互联网带来了一些讨论的话，但是就我个人而言，当我击中60多岁时，我仍然可以变得性感。但是，除了成为毕生的麦当娜粉丝外，我还是黑人妇女。因此，坐在和筛选她的主张是准确和公平的，而不是一个复杂的十字路口。

None of this is to say Madonna didn’t influence Cardi B, Kim Kardashian or Miley Cyrus. Her book sold 1.5 million copies. And during their spat, Cardi B pointed to the fact that she’s praised Madonna publicly on several occasions and grew up listening to her. But to assume that she is the sole reason Cardi B and Meg did what they did onWAPis just not a claim I can stand behind.