{"id":987407,"date":"2021-11-08T23:59:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T04:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=987407"},"modified":"2021-11-08T23:59:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T04:59:09","slug":"emily-ratjakowski-says-her-posing-nude-enabled-the-patriarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/emily-ratjakowski-says-her-posing-nude-enabled-the-patriarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Ratjakowski Says Her Posing Nude Enabled the Patriarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Femily-ratjakowski-says-her-posing-nude-enabled-the-patriarchy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=987407&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Emily Ratjakowski, the model and actress who made herself rich and famous by taking her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2019\/04\/22\/emily-ratajkowski-honors-easter-in-a-thong\/\">clothes off<\/a>, now says that her making herself rich and famous by taking her clothes off enabled the patriarchy.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/emily-ratajkowski-interview-my-body-book-8vlrbprv9?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Emily&amp;utm_medium=branded_social\">interview<\/a> with Britain\u2019s <em>The Sunday Times&nbsp;<\/em>to promote her new memoir, aptly titled <em>My Body<\/em>, Ratjakowski, a far-left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2019\/05\/16\/nude-emily-ratajkowski-states-with-highest-proportions-of-black-women-using-abortion-to-protect-prison-industrial-complex\/\">feminist activist<\/a>, expounds upon her entry into the modeling world at a young age, culminating in her eventual fame when she performed topless for Robin Thicke\u2019s <em>Blurred Lines<\/em> music video at age 21.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18652194\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/robin-thicke-blurred-lines-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18652194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/robin-thicke-blurred-lines-1.jpg\" alt width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>YouTube\/Screenshot<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>For years, Ratjakowski, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2018\/11\/25\/emily-ratajkowski-defends-going-braless-anti-kavanaugh-protest\/\">famously went braless <\/a>to a protest of Justice Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s confirmation to the Supreme Court, maintained that she felt empowered by performing topless, arguing that her nudity was a \u201cchoice\u201d; now, Ratjakowski feels differently.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.4175438596491\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today I was arrested protesting the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, a man who has been accused by multiple women of sexual assault. Men who hurt women can no longer be placed in positions of power. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nnwq1O4qk3\">pic.twitter.com\/nnwq1O4qk3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emrata\/status\/1047948187342913537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think that came out of defiance and a feeling of, I don\u2019t want to have to be told what to do, if I want to get naked or wear something sexy, that\u2019s a feminist act because I\u2019ve made that choice,\u201d she said. \u201cI just don\u2019t feel that way now because those choices are informed by the system we are functioning within.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Outside of her professional work, Ratjakowski has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2019\/04\/22\/emily-ratajkowski-honors-easter-in-a-thong\/\">frequently exploited<\/a> her own image on her Instagram page, where she enjoys over 28 million followers. On more than a few occasions, Ratjakowski has exploited her body in service of left-wing causes, such as when she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2019\/05\/16\/nude-emily-ratajkowski-states-with-highest-proportions-of-black-women-using-abortion-to-protect-prison-industrial-complex\/\">stripped nude<\/a>&nbsp;in support of abortion when several states were implementing restrictive laws against the deadly procedure.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"3.7183098591549\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zsW1C7p2fQ\">pic.twitter.com\/zsW1C7p2fQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emrata\/status\/1129069289321816064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She made headlines celebrating Easter in 2019 in a thong.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BwhlNC1HaGF\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.29166666666667\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the memoir, Ratjakowski accused Robin Thicke of groping her while filming the music video.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watch below:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines ft. T.I., Pharrell\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yyDUC1LUXSU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuddenly, out of nowhere, I felt the coolness and foreignness of a stranger\u2019s hands cupping my bare breasts from behind,\u201d she wrote in the book.<\/p>\n<p>The music video\u2019s director,&nbsp;Diane Martel, has <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/emily-ratajkowski-reveals-why-she-didnt-protest-after-robin-thicke-allegedly-groped-her\/\">supported<\/a> Ratjakowski\u2019s claim of being groped on set.<\/p>\n<p>Though Ratjakowski appreciates that the music video catapulted her to fame and stardom, she now admits to having been exploited, saying she&nbsp;would often feel powerless over her body at auditions and photoshoots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is this sense of your body is not yours, it\u2019s ours,\u201d she said. \u201cIn this contract you\u2019ve given it up to be used how we see fit. You aren\u2019t allowed to have control over it. If you\u2019re not willing to do what the client wants you to do with your body, then there\u2019s somebody else who will be. You\u2019re not special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite her trials and tribulations as a model,&nbsp;Ratjakowski would not discourage women from entering into it as a profession, highlighting the fact the \u201ccommodifying\u201d of her image granted power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would never tell a young woman not to model because I have had the success and the financial success to be able to buy myself time to write this book,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I have the ability to have this book be talked about in a way that an unknown writer wouldn\u2019t \u2014 and that\u2019s power. And that came through commodifying my image and my body.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Ratjakowski, the model and actress who made herself rich and famous by taking her clothes off, now says that her making herself rich and famous by taking her clothes &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}