Dear World: Beyonce is actually not “flawless.” Get over it. The posting of what appear to be unretouched photos of Beyonce poked the BeyHive (as her die-hard fans are known). In the photos Beyonce’s skin is blemished and hardly the smooth, cover girl look usually presented. In other words, Beyonce is (gasp) human. But why should we even care? As Jacob Weisberg wrote in Slate: “The most obvious explanation is that humans enjoy living vicariously through those of our species who are richer, more famous, attractive, and sexually desirable than the rest of us.” The response to Bey-gate deviated from the cries of women’s empowerment that followed a recently released image of supermodel Cindy Crawford from a 2013 photo shoot for Marie Claire Mexico and Latin America.
