While West became famous because she talked about sex, Madonna already was famous and was derided for talking about sex not because of what she was saying as much as because she was a famous woman saying it. In 2012, the Guardian wrote that the fact “she was penning her own sexual narrative was perhaps the most shocking part of the whole enterprise,” which could be said about West too and about Niki Minaj, Cardi B, and Megan Thee Stallion.
