Eden, do not listen to the comments, you look like a million dollars

When G-lu or Beyoncé take the stage in minimal clothes no one says they are disrespectful, so why does what applies to them not apply to Eden Ben Zaken?

Moms don’t say we stop being feminine, or wanting to feel good in a bikini too.

And no, "the honor of a king's daughter inward," is not an answer

Meirav Lapidot

21/06/2022

Tuesday, 21 June 2022, 18:51 Updated: 20:19

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Eden Ben Zaken is one of the favorite singers in Israel, one that everyone wants to collaborate with, she fills halls, releases hit after hit and it turns out that she is also no small feminist (consciously or not).

Already about a month ago, social media stormed not because of Silman's departure or the disagreements in the coalition, but because of what Eden Ben Zaken wore to one of her performances.

"It's disrespectful", "she's a mom" and other such flashes and then came the bikini picture yesterday and what can I tell you - Eden looks like a million dollars (and so does Anna Aronov!).

To all the chirping and squeaking, motherhood is not a code name for the fact that we stop being feminine, coveted and looking good or wanting to feel good in a bikini too.

And no, telling me "honoring a king's daughter inward" is not an answer, but just another way to try and force women into such and such norms that conservative people want to preserve.

Looks like a million dollars - Old Eden with her baby son (Photo: screenshot, Instagram)

You will probably not be surprised to find that not only in Israel do women hear these things, bloggers around the world are snatching the same reactions as we are in 1800, in which women were raised as "witches", not in 2022. As if the Me Too revolution never took place and we learned On her body is hers and hers alone.

When Ji Lou or Beyoncé take the stage in minimal clothing no one says they are disrespectful but that they look like a million dollars, so why does what applies to them not apply to others as well?

The obsessive preoccupation with women's appearance, weight in dress is another way to preserve inequality and reduce us to body dimensions and dress code.

A particularly connecting and disturbing thread runs between the illegitimate intervention in what one wears or another, through the desire of women and the ever-increasing rate of sexual harassment, and is the uncontrollable need for women to tell us how and what we should wear and be.

Get out of our clothes and understand that the change is already here and it is impossible to turn the wheel back.

The harnessing of talented, strong and influential women online in the bikini protest is further proof that we can no longer be put into the small patterns that are convenient for sections of the public who for some reason feel threatened, change is a welcome thing when not feared and understood to be right and required.

And Eden, to you I quote my friend Ofira Asaig: What is yours, yours.

For me you were and remain the Queen of Roses.

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