Within the last decade or so, most black women (and some of other races as well) consider having an enlarged derrier as something that embodies their beauty and sexiness. Women will go through some excrutiating methods in order to get this 'glorified' shape.
Women like Buffy the Body, Angel Lola Love (aka Lola Monroe) and even Coco T (Ice-T's wife) have gone through some method of the sort in order to gain the body that they currently have. As of recent, there has been questions as to how Nicki Minaj gained her newest asset (especially with the outfit she wore at the MTV 2010 VMAs). Many have speculated how these women have attained the glory that is their buttocks. Some have even spoke about it openly.
It is amazing to me how the female butt is now glorified in the media and by men of all colours, shapes and sizes. What we fail to realize as a society, is that women, especially black women have been put on display from the late 19th century.
Sara Baartman otherwise known as Hottentot Venus would be what we would consider today as the "original" video vixen.
Sara was put on display in London at the Picadily Circus where doctors and medical students alike could not believe how this woman could have such enlarged assets. She was taken there under the notion that she would attain fame and fortune. On the contrary, Sara turned into a circus act, shaking her derrier in the nude for the "money and fame" that she wanted. After some time passed, she moved to France where she was put on display as a museum object. Even after she passed away, Sara couldn't get a break. Her labia was opened, her skeleton taken out, her vagina and brain put on display. For 190+ years Sara's remains were put on display in France until 1974 when they took her remains down as a showpiece. It was just a few years ago that Sara's remains were returned to her motherland of South Africa.
It's kind of ironic that the same attributes that were ridiculed and questionned centuries ago make most video vixens and models famous these days. You have to wonder sometimes if they know about Sara's history and struggle.
Leave your thoughts and comments.
Until later good people.
No comments:
Post a Comment