Posted on 01/08/2023 2:18:25 PM PST by C19fan
The human butt has long been the object of all manner of obsessions. We worry over it: its size, its shape, whether or not it has cellulite on it, how it looks in a pair of jeans. But now, a new source of concern emerges: the alarming possibility that one’s butt — or at least, one’s relationship to butts generally — is racist.
For this we may thank the existence of Butts: A Backstory, a new book by journalist Heather Radke. To be fair, it surely is not Radke’s intention to inculcate racial anxiety in her reader: Butts feels like a passion project, deeply researched and fun to read, offering a deep dive into the history and culture of the human rear end, from the Venus Callipyge (from whose name the word “callipygian” is derived) to Buns of Steel to Sir Mix-A-Lot’s seminal rap celebrating all things gluteal. It is a topic ripe for well-rounded analysis, so to speak. But having been written in the very particular milieu of 2020s America, Butts unfortunately falls victim to the contemporary vogue for viewing all matters of culture through a racial lens. The result is a work that not only flattens the butt, figuratively, but makes the book feel ultimately less like an anthropological study and more like an entry into the crowded genre of works which serve to stoke the white liberal guilt of the NPR tote bag set.
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I was worried that I was racist because I didn’t like big butts. Then again, I don’t care what color skin they are, if they’re big, I don’t like them.
Remember that these are the same people who cry about how some wild animal babies have "privilege".
They are not well people.
I’ve seen the big butt Kardashians and some others on daily mail and to me it’s repulsive. I just don’t get how anyone can say someone with a couple of asses is attractive.
Maybe if I was in a plane crash in the Andes or was part of the Donner party but still doubtful.
I think POTUS Biden made Newports illegal.
Can I wear velour Puma sweats?…
So if someone likes a regular doughnut vs an Apple Fritter then somehow that makes them Holey?
No wait! That makes them racist. I keep forgetting everything is seen through the prism of identity politics and race these days.
I reject both premises. You do you and I’ll do me. Nuff said.
It’s racist to think racist when you’re not racist which makes you racist. Just apologize and giive all mediocre butt babes 1619-like equity checks, say for Hell Mary’s as an indulgence and your racist sins shall be forgiven else you be excommunicated from the SGW hall of guilt tripping
Gary Taubs in “Why we get fat” has pictures of black women from West Africa in the 1800’s. They were poverty strickened and skinny - with big huge butts. It is a genetic thing, at least in part, with them.
Fupa?
Gunt?
https://youtu.be/7CfYpZCHJQw?t=147
Chappelle, blacks shouldn’t smoke Neuport menthols...”Anything marketed to blacks, that’s where the poison is. I’ll smoke Virginia Slims, they are made for white women.
Let’s just make it simple. If you’re white, you’re racist.
“I was worried that I was racist because I didn’t like big butts.”
Were you really? I truly hope you’re being sarcastic.
One time in Wally World we saw a large woman with her ass attached to the front and the back.
I had a difficult time determining if she was coming or going.
Should I have said that?
5.56mm
Big bottom
Big bottom
Talk about mud flaps
My girl’s got ‘em
Big bottom drive me out of my mind
How could I leave this
Behind
Oh drat, I was having fun with the racist gymnastics, but yes indeedy
Lol
There was a late 30’s white lady in front of me in church today that beat all ghetto booty. My wife kept elbowing me when we stood to point it out to me. A real beer stand.
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