Inside The Music Industry's Ridiculous Double Standard For Women

Why We Can't Just Shake Off Music's Double Standard
Iggy Azalea performs at a Vampire Academy special event featuring a performance by Iggy Azalea hosted by The Weinstein Company and Universal Music Enterprises, on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision for The Weinstein Company/AP Images)
Iggy Azalea performs at a Vampire Academy special event featuring a performance by Iggy Azalea hosted by The Weinstein Company and Universal Music Enterprises, on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision for The Weinstein Company/AP Images)

When you're a musician you agree to live in the public eye. For female musicians, apparently, that means becoming public property.

During a recent interview on the radio station Hot 97, Australian rapper Iggy Azalea mentioned that she had to stop crowdsurfing because too many people were fingering her. "I will get lurk tweets for like a week before my show, like 'I'm about to go to the Iggy Azalea show and I'm going to finger her,' and I'll see it and be like, please don't! That's a violation. I don't actually like that stuff." She explained that threat of being sexually assaulted is so extreme that, in order to perform, she needs barriers between her and her audience. She regularly wears two pairs of underwear and tights under her clothes.

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