Pink Delivers Empowering Speech About Embracing Androgyny At MTV VMA

Singer-songwriter Pink delivered a moving speech while receiving the MTV Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award on Monday. After performing a medley of her hit songs, Pink talked about the time when her daughter was taunted for her ‘masculine’ appearance at school. Her six-year-old daughter, Willow, said that she was the ‘ugliest girl’ as she looked like a boy. Willow felt insecure after being told by her classmates that she looked like a boy.

Pink made a PowerPoint presentation, in which she listed all the “androgynous rock stars and artistes that live their truth, are probably made fun of every day of their life, and carry on and wave their flag and inspire the rest of us.” Pink decided that this was a more worthwhile enterprise than taking out her anger on the kids who bullied Willow.

Pink then told Willow that she too had faced such comments, and that it was alright to be masculine. “When people made fun of me, that’s what they use. They say I look like a boy or I’m too masculine or I have too many opinions. My body is too strong,'” Pink described in the speech. “And I said to her, ‘Do you see me growing my hair?’ She said, ‘No, momma.’ ‘Do you see me changing my body?’ ‘No, momma.’ ‘Do you see me changing the way I present myself to the world?’ ‘No, momma.’ ‘Do you see me selling out arenas all over the world?’ ‘Yes, momma.'”

“’OK, so, baby girl, we don’t change,'” the star continued. “‘We take the gravel in the shell and we make a pearl. And we help other people to change so that they can see more kinds of beauty.’”

Pink received a lot of positive reactions on social media for her speech, with many applauding the singer for speaking out in support of androgyny.

Image Courtesy: Washington Post

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