Ariana Grande has shut down trolls before, and the Dangerous Woman isn't about to start letting disgusting behavior slide now.
As Grande shared on Twitter, the singer was recently out with boyfriend Mac Miller when a professed fan of the rapper's expressed his enthusiasm by telling him Ariana is "sexy as hell," and saying "I see you hitting that." Not only did the guy say this to Miller, but he had the utter disregard to say it while Grande was "sitting right there."
The belittling comment did not go down well with Grande: She explained that while she is "sick" and hurt by the interaction, she's also incredibly fed up.
"Hitting that?" Grande wrote. "The fuck?? This may not seem like a big deal to some of you but I felt sick and objectified ... Things like happen all the time and are the kinds of things that contribute to women's sense of fear and inadequacy. I am not a piece of meat that a man gets to utilize for his pleasure. I am an adult human being in a relationship with a man who treats me with love and respect. It hurts my heart that so many young people are so comfortable enough using these phrases and objectifying women with such ease."
She continued, "I felt like speaking up about this one experience tonight because I know very well that most women know the sensation of being spoken about in an uncomfortable way publicly or taken advantage of publicly by a man."
And to Grande, the fact that this kind of everyday sexism happens so frequently is all the more reason to put it on blast each and every time it does. In her own words, "we need to talk about these moments openly because they are harmful and they live on inside of us as shame. We need to share and be vocal when something makes us feel uncomfortable because if we don't, it will just continue."
Grande capped the missive with one last truth about the women who men try to diminish or demean: "We are not objects or prizes. We are QUEENS."
