Following an interview with The Sun where Ariana Grande shut down rumors of her dating One Direction’s Niall Horan by saying, “A girl can be friends with someone with a dick and not hop on it,” the singer took to her social media to share thoughts on being single and the double standards between men and women. Grande opened her Twitter rant with the revelations that, “Being ‘empowered’…is not the same as being a ‘bitch’…and “HAVING SOMETHING TO SAY…is not the same as HAVING A BAD ATTITUDE.” Fresh from her breakup with Big Sean, Grande goes on to describe how she has “never felt more present, grounded, and satisfied,” and has way more important things to talk about than boys anyway. “I’m currently making the best music I’ve ever made in my life, having the best time of my life on tour with some of the greatest people I’ve ever known, working my ass off every single day, performing/creating for my babes and getting the chance to meet and hug my babes all over the world every day,” she wrote.
Grande also talks about how she comes from a “long bloodline of female activists” including an aunt who was the first Italian-American female president of the National Press Club. “I think she would have been proud of me for speaking up about something that has been bothering me personally for so long,” she said. The newly-minted feminist then slams the sexual double standards women have to face: