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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Hmm... Something about this thread being worthless without photos.
In the past few months, we have learned that desiring to lose weight, exercising, swimming, enjoying classical music and having Mike as a first name are racist. And it is also racist for a white person to deny that he is racist.
The problem though is many white women now are stupidly getting butt injections because they believe that's what is attractive and to appeal to males of a certain demographic.
Why is it women with big butts women always ware the tightest pants they make me nervous.
” 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. “
Yeah, the chubbo chasers have torpedoed the “Buns of Steel” movement. Now it is any cottage cheese fat butt for them.
You be dissin' them coal burners?
With you on that. Big butts gross me right out. I’ve noticed a serious push by the vile leftist media to normalize morbid obesity and especially gigantic, gross, baboon-like asses on women. The reason is because to leftist scum beauty is ugliness, and vice versa.
The headline misses the obvious. It is sexist and classist and istist.
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When everything is “ist”, nothing is “ist”.
If we have a personal preference, isn’t that otherwise known as toxic masculinity?
I have NO idea if it's real, but if so, 100% agree.
“Don’t care for fat asses.”
Check this song out, from the 40’s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz5DX2qIQoU
I dunno. Lots of fat White women walking around these daze with huge butts. I don’t find them attractive either.
IF I were a young man some of my first inquiries would be: 1) are you a Christian? 2) if you voted what side would you vote for? 3) are you jabbed?
and my own eyes would see if she were in shape.
I am older and a woman and would tell my young family members to ask such questions either directly or through observation.
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