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Showing posts with label big booty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label big booty. Show all posts
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Big Booty Beauty and the New Sexual Aesthetic
Excerpts from "Big Booty Beauty and the New Sexual Aesthetic"
The many names, affectionate and derogatory, we use in reference to female buttocks suggest the range of ambivalent associations they elicit. “Booty” holds the promise of illicit pleasures. “Fanny” desexualizes the female behind, turning it into a sweet but inconsequential body part. The command to “get off your fanny” is less hostile than “get off your ass.” A “tush” is small and tight, a “rump” is round and fleshy, a “can” is fat and lazy. As Sander Gilman points out, the “buttocks are an ever-shifting symbolic site in the body…. Never do they represent themselves.” Female buttocks function as metaphors for traits that a society values or rejects. Their meanings vary between cultures and among ethnic groups; while a bounteous butt may bring out disgust or disdain in some social circles, it evokes a range of positive associations in others.
In mainstream U.S. culture, “bubble butts” have typically been associated with “lowly” subject positions or “vulgar” sexuality. Calling too much attention to one’s behind is considered uncouth in polite society, a nasty reminder of forbidden or distasteful acts. A big butt is associated with “unnatural” sex, excrement, or the excess and physicality identified with “darker” races. This body metaphor helps us constitute social identities and subject positions. Like most females growing up in America, I learned early on that bodily attributes such as butt size, hair texture, skin color, and body shape could convey a woman’s status and desirability. During my teens, achieving the “all American girl” look that graced the covers of fashion magazines meant dieting the butt into submission. A woman’s failure to reign in an unruly butt connoted her lack of discipline and self-control, and by association, her inferior moral character. It also marked her place in the social order: “high class” women did not carry excess baggage in the trunk. A skinny ass identified you with the elegant and never too rich, never too thin social elite, big butts with the mammies and maids.
The many names, affectionate and derogatory, we use in reference to female buttocks suggest the range of ambivalent associations they elicit. “Booty” holds the promise of illicit pleasures. “Fanny” desexualizes the female behind, turning it into a sweet but inconsequential body part. The command to “get off your fanny” is less hostile than “get off your ass.” A “tush” is small and tight, a “rump” is round and fleshy, a “can” is fat and lazy. As Sander Gilman points out, the “buttocks are an ever-shifting symbolic site in the body…. Never do they represent themselves.” Female buttocks function as metaphors for traits that a society values or rejects. Their meanings vary between cultures and among ethnic groups; while a bounteous butt may bring out disgust or disdain in some social circles, it evokes a range of positive associations in others.
In mainstream U.S. culture, “bubble butts” have typically been associated with “lowly” subject positions or “vulgar” sexuality. Calling too much attention to one’s behind is considered uncouth in polite society, a nasty reminder of forbidden or distasteful acts. A big butt is associated with “unnatural” sex, excrement, or the excess and physicality identified with “darker” races. This body metaphor helps us constitute social identities and subject positions. Like most females growing up in America, I learned early on that bodily attributes such as butt size, hair texture, skin color, and body shape could convey a woman’s status and desirability. During my teens, achieving the “all American girl” look that graced the covers of fashion magazines meant dieting the butt into submission. A woman’s failure to reign in an unruly butt connoted her lack of discipline and self-control, and by association, her inferior moral character. It also marked her place in the social order: “high class” women did not carry excess baggage in the trunk. A skinny ass identified you with the elegant and never too rich, never too thin social elite, big butts with the mammies and maids.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Big Butts, Big Breast and Mens' Sexuality
As Americans I think we have a very unfair and repressed ideas
about a woman and her sexuality. First I'd like to remind people
that a woman's sexuality is totally hers, how she thinks about her
body regardless of other peoples opinions, is her damn business.
Now of course there are exception to every rule and I know body
distortion disorders do exist in woman and some men as well. Which is, imho, an off shoot of women not owning their sexuality and being comfortable with their body image.
Are we responsible for a mans' libido? Is having or wanting to
have a bigger butt or bigger breasts a direct and proportional signal to men that we want to have sex with him. Some men would like to thinks so, and some woman too.
No woman, not even the most promiscuous woman, wants to have sex with every man she sees. Its insulting to think so. I often pose this question to people, "what if a butt naked woman casually walked down the street?" is that an invitation to sex? Well, first lets examine the woman, if she is indeed walking down the street naked, there is obviously a mental issue
going on. And if a man recognizes this and still forced himself on her, who is the most mentally ill? Women we are as God's children, allowed our personal space, even if inside that space is a
fine fully feminine figure of a woman with a big butt and big breast. No one can come in until we allow them too, plain and simple. Which is why we have to be very responsible and careful of what and who we let in our space.
about a woman and her sexuality. First I'd like to remind people
that a woman's sexuality is totally hers, how she thinks about her
body regardless of other peoples opinions, is her damn business.
Now of course there are exception to every rule and I know body
distortion disorders do exist in woman and some men as well. Which is, imho, an off shoot of women not owning their sexuality and being comfortable with their body image.
Are we responsible for a mans' libido? Is having or wanting to
have a bigger butt or bigger breasts a direct and proportional signal to men that we want to have sex with him. Some men would like to thinks so, and some woman too.
No woman, not even the most promiscuous woman, wants to have sex with every man she sees. Its insulting to think so. I often pose this question to people, "what if a butt naked woman casually walked down the street?" is that an invitation to sex? Well, first lets examine the woman, if she is indeed walking down the street naked, there is obviously a mental issue
going on. And if a man recognizes this and still forced himself on her, who is the most mentally ill? Women we are as God's children, allowed our personal space, even if inside that space is a
fine fully feminine figure of a woman with a big butt and big breast. No one can come in until we allow them too, plain and simple. Which is why we have to be very responsible and careful of what and who we let in our space.
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