"Butt shots and black men, are they to blame for the problem?" This article/blog I found speaks about the
pressures Black women face to live up to the ideal body type that Black men fantasize about, and
the extreme measures they go through to achieve this look. The author Brande Victorian explains that her days of
doing squats in the gym to pump up your butt are gone, since women are going for quicker and riskier methods
to enlarge their buttocks.
Victorian proceeds to explain the many ways how Black men reveal that they prefer their Black women with larger buttocks. These men sing, rap, stare at it, and constantly chase after girls with these assets,
without even realizing what dangerous measures these women
are going through to become the object
of the Black man’s affection. The author ends the article by
stating that if your rear end doesn't look like
Jenifer Lopez, Beyonce or Kim Kardashian, naturally you're
option is to pull a Nicki Minaj and get that
look. Hip Hop artist Nicki Minaj is well known for her
decision to get buttock augmentation surgery,
since before and after pictures surfaced on the internet of
what her buttocks looked like.
I chose to share this article/blog with you because it gives a testimonial of real life African American women who are either affected by the consequences of butt implants
and, can see how much damage the idea of
buttock implants is doing to a large amount of African
American women. It is a growing problem,
especially in the Hip Hop community, and awareness needs to
be spread on the dangers of receiving
this surgery.
How do you feel? Do you believe that Black men are to blame for this dramatic increase in this type of surgery?
To read more from Victorian, click on the link below:
I feel like men play a significant role in a woman's desire to have a specific body type. I wouldn't necessarily throw the race card into play, considering women of all races have sought after the ideal "Coca-Cola bottle" frame. Even from the Victorian era, women would wear extremely tight boned corsets that they could barely breathe in and would actually damage their rib cage and organs to appear to have this slim but curvy figure.
ReplyDeleteWhile more black women experience dangers of undergoing surgery to achieve this larger butt, I think that endangering your health for your physical appearance isn't something specific to the African-American female community. I would argue that women of all ages and races endanger their health for their ideal appearance. Whether it be eating disorders, skin bleaching, etc.
I totally agree with Danica. While I understand Victorian's point of view, I also think that it's somewhat essentialist to broadly paint it as a Black male problem. I too believe that some of them are responsible for reproducing ideals that fetishize Black female bodies but this issue is far more complex.
ReplyDeleteI think that the blame can be directed in several other directions including how Blacks have historically been constructed as hypersexual beings, black female representation in the media, schools... and more importantly the females themselves that internalize and conform to these aesthetical preferences!!
I wouldn't necessarily blame any man for the choices these women make.
ReplyDeleteThese women clearly lack self-esteem and vie for acceptance so they undergo these harmful and unsafe procedures to please these men who lack any sort or respect for them. How this is dignified and why these women would go through such expensive and emotional/mental/physical journeys is beyond me. Like Danica said, the 'Coca-Cola bottle figure' is most desirable, as prevalent in the media now, whether it be magazines, movies, TV and the internet. All women want to be accepted by men but if it means to enhance or reduce any part of your body, it isn't worth it in the long run.
Men won't do it for us; why should we do it for them?