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Is it racist to like big butts?: The derriere discourse guilt-trips white women
Unherd ^ | January 5, 2023 | Kat Rosenfield

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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TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: bigbutt; buddhabooty; fashion; hugerear; race; women
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A book that could have been an interesting history of what society considered the ideal womanly figure degenerates into race bating. I was thinking if a curvy bottom was linked to race then why did bustles become the craze starting in the 1870s. The author of the article brought up the same thing. Someone the author of the book claimed it was due to a black woman from around 1800. Then there was the Hubble skirt of the Edwardian Era that emphasized the bottom and coke bottle shape figure. So am I to believe it was European carving up Africa that brought about that fashion. Both fashions in combination with wearing of a corset served to minimize the waist. One can go back further in time with Peter Paul Rubens and his big butt women.
1 posted on 01/08/2023 2:18:25 PM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan
No.

It is not racist to dislike them either.

It is called personal preferences and you are allowed to have them.

2 posted on 01/08/2023 2:20:02 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: C19fan

...and I cannot lie


3 posted on 01/08/2023 2:21:11 PM PST by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: All

I guess Spanish women are racist and stealing black bodies by wearing Flamenco dresses.


4 posted on 01/08/2023 2:21:28 PM PST by C19fan
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
It is called personal preferences and you are allowed to have them.

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.

5 posted on 01/08/2023 2:23:46 PM PST by GaryCrow
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

“It is called personal preferences and you are allowed to have them.”

Not if you are a white male. Then it is evil.


6 posted on 01/08/2023 2:24:07 PM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: C19fan
Don't care for fat asses.

Beside, they take a lot of pig chow.


7 posted on 01/08/2023 2:24:35 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: C19fan

Eating disorders / anorexia - bulimia, are a BAWG thing. (Boney a$$ white girls)


8 posted on 01/08/2023 2:24:36 PM PST by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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To: C19fan

The only reason for bubble butts is when a person craps it doesn’t fall on their ankles.


9 posted on 01/08/2023 2:25:25 PM PST by bimboeruption (Trump = The best President since Washington. )
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To: C19fan; bagster

Does it discuss:
Back-booty?
Bubble-butt? (Bubble-booty)
Ghetto-booty?


10 posted on 01/08/2023 2:28:37 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Machine-gun jumblies. How'd I miss that? - Austin Powers 2)
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To: C19fan

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.


11 posted on 01/08/2023 2:29:04 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: C19fan

Everything is racist these days.
Thinking is racist. Even sleeping is racist.


12 posted on 01/08/2023 2:30:22 PM PST by USA-FRANCE
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To: alternatives?

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.


13 posted on 01/08/2023 2:30:23 PM PST by EEGator
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To: aynrandfreak

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


14 posted on 01/08/2023 2:31:01 PM PST by foundedonpurpose (raise Hashem, for his restoration of all things!)
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To: Da Coyote
Whatever happened to “different strokes for different folks”?

...and so on, and so on, and scooby dooby doo.

15 posted on 01/08/2023 2:32:17 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

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.


16 posted on 01/08/2023 2:33:16 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: GaryCrow

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.


17 posted on 01/08/2023 2:33:38 PM PST by Scrambler Bob
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To: USA-FRANCE

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.


18 posted on 01/08/2023 2:35:22 PM PST by Scrambler Bob
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To: C19fan
Is it racist to like big butts?

It might be mental but probably not racist unless you're talking to a Leftist who calls everything they don't like "racist".

19 posted on 01/08/2023 2:35:23 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Scrambler Bob

But don’t smoke menthol... that’s only for blacks.


20 posted on 01/08/2023 2:35:25 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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