Stop! Wait! Did you hear? Patricia Garcia writes in Vogue magazine that a big booty is finally accepted as a beautiful thing. Oh but wait it gets worse, Garcia credits the acceptance by mainstream media of the curvaceous derriere to white women. She writes, “For years it was exactly the opposite; a large butt was not something one aspired to, rather something one tried to tame in countless exercise classes. Even in fashion, that daring creative space where nothing is ever off limits, the booty has traditionally been shunned.” She credits the surge of acceptance to Jennifer Lopez, Iggy Azalea, Kim Kardashian and Miley Cyrus. Let me dissect the absolute absurdity of this entire article, paying special attention to the mere mention of either of these women, (except Jennifer Lopez), I will reference her later.
Firstly, lest we forget that the launch of Kim Kardashian’s career will forever be attributed to her voluptuous rear being featured in a homemade pornographic film. In Hollywood the means always justify the ends. No, that fact does not discount her curvy figure, but it does discount her rise to unearned stardom.
Many people have declared Iggy Azalea an imposter. She burst onto the scene, gimmick in tow (cue the dirty south accent) as a big booty, hip-hop artist from Australia. I don’t know if Kim or Iggy are packing fraud in their panties but I do know that getting more butt is a simple lunchtime procedure. You can get the fat extracted from a desired part of your body, usually between the thigh to achieve the coveted thigh gap, and have the fat injected in your butt. This is a low-risk procedure because there are no foreign objects or materials inserted like silicone.
Someone please enlighten me as to why Miley Cyrus was mentioned in an article glorifying big butts. Patricia Garcia, get your eyes checked and your head too. Big butts and twerking are not synonymous. Or maybe you should have written this article for the Onion, because you are obviously joking.
I will give Jenny from the block a pass because African Americans have embraced her since her days as a Fly Girl on In Living Color. She has been a part of hip-hop for decades and has earned her mention among the best big booty goddesses of all-time, with hard work, dedication and genetics. However, I would be remised not to mention that although on many levels African Americans have granted cultural acceptance to Jennifer, one must acknowledge the fact that she has never been plagued with the plight of the Black woman.
The most disturbing element to this article is the lack of research, empathy, or cultural identification. Does Vogue not have one African American female writer that could offer her perspective from a relevant standpoint? Once again mainstream media has ‘Columbused’ what has always belonged to the African American community. What do we own that mainstream has not stolen and declared its own unique discovery? How are you able to lay claim to discovery of something for which has been embraced by our culture since the Dark Ages? We were born with the hips and booty that Hollywood is paying for. We were blessed with the genetic predisposition to have the unrivaled, often imitated but never duplicated, voluptuous curves sent blessed from the Master Architect. It was mainstream society that thought us to hate our bodies. It is only recently with the Natural Moment that African American women as a whole have reclaimed ownership of the matchless beauty of ourselves. For centuries we have been taught that our bodies were worthless, and that we were worthless degenerates good only for bearing children. So now that Vogue magazine has deemed the big butt as beautiful, we are supposed to feel accepted and be okay with the centuries of disparaging dismisses by society and the fashion industry? Newsflash Vogue and Patricia Garcia, we do not want our physical features to be sensationalized. You can even spare us the notion that Jennifer, Kim, Iggy and Miley have ushered in something of a great awakening that the big booty, genetically predisposed to the Black woman, is only now beautiful because you say so. No thank you.
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