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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It is not racist to dislike them either.
It is called personal preferences and you are allowed to have them.
...and I cannot lie
I guess Spanish women are racist and stealing black bodies by wearing Flamenco dresses.
I agree with it being a personal preference but I'm not sure we're allowed to have them any more. We're pretty much condemned as racists for breathing any more.
As for me, I'm glad the world is obsessed with the flabby Kim Kardashian type derrieres nowadays because that leaves the slim ones for me. They can have the blubber butts.
“It is called personal preferences and you are allowed to have them.”
Not if you are a white male. Then it is evil.
Beside, they take a lot of pig chow.
Eating disorders / anorexia - bulimia, are a BAWG thing. (Boney a$$ white girls)
The only reason for bubble butts is when a person craps it doesn’t fall on their ankles.
Does it discuss:
Back-booty?
Bubble-butt? (Bubble-booty)
Ghetto-booty?
Whatever happened to “different strokes for different folks”?
The only sure conclusion is that anyone playing the race card on any subject these days demonstrates an amazing ability to display their idiocy.
Everything is racist these days.
Thinking is racist. Even sleeping is racist.
I’m a racist white male, and I only date white women that don’t emulate ghetto culture, in every aspect.
I like fit females.
Then without lying...
The rest of the body follows course. If you’re into big buts, don’t be shocked by heavy baggage with the rest of the unit later on.
Prefer trim with a decent attempt at self care, actually doing it.
I will pass on the knife, fork, and spoon challenges
...and so on, and so on, and scooby dooby doo.
I dislike that fat ass stetopygia Hottentot butt. However it must be a little racist because there is a certain racial demographic that loves it.
We’re pretty much condemned as racists for breathing any more.
= = =
Need to take up smoking.
So you don’t exhale white (or clear) air, but
Exhale black air.
Everything is racist these days.
Thinking is racist. Even sleeping is racist.
= = =
And your post is at least triple-racist.
And my reply doubles that.
It might be mental but probably not racist unless you're talking to a Leftist who calls everything they don't like "racist".
But don’t smoke menthol... that’s only for blacks.
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