re: Blake Lively Posted An Instagram Of Her Butt That Has A Lot Of People Upset

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It was considered to be a negative attribute on black women.

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FWIW if people wonder why it was considered a negative attribute, research Saartjie "Sarah" Baartman.

What's the alternative? Black culture, good, services staying only for black people? If so, wtf were people like MLK, Jr. fighting for? If black culture stayed segregated, their lives would be much worse today.

I think what we are seeing today is a cultural mindset of insecurity, which one could argue is expected and just part of the natural progression. A vocal group of black people are insecure about where they fit in American society. They feel a large burden of expectation. They probably fear failing to meet those expectations so they do their best to illuminate what they feel are inequities( physical, subconscious, whatever) that are preventing them from meeting those expectations.

This mindset isn't exclusive to black people, btw.

I have always championed bigger asses and I'm a white guy underneath where my sleeves go

What's disgusting is when chicks get injections or implants

Some feminazi is now claiming that it was racist that she got married on a plantation with the former slave house in tact

Sir Mix-a-lot comes out in support of Lively (He really can't lie about liking big butts)

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A friend of mine, he said, "Dude, I know Katy Perry did this, one of the Kardashians did this, but I don't understand, what did this girl do to make everybody pissed off?" So I checked it out, and looked at it and I was kind of … I liked it. You know, I like stuff like that, but I was a little surprised at the criticism.

Let's rewind to when I wrote the song. And I am in no way trying to say that I speak for all black people. I think that people that do that need to be shut down pretty quickly because it makes us kind of monolithic, which is silly. But the reason I wrote the song was because I always felt that the African-American idea of what was beautiful was shunned. If you go back and look at 1990, 1991, you only saw African-American women and Hispanic women who were either a maid or a hooker. I watched a lot of Law and Order, Gimme a Break, Mama's House and all those shows, and you saw the same thing. They were always my size: overweight, and that's the way they wanted to see us. I don't know who "they" is, but it seems like the powers that be in Hollywood or the heads of magazines or whatever wanted to see us that way.

Now at the same time, what was promoted as beautiful was kind of really waif-thin, borderline heroin addicts. I don't mean that literally, I mean the look. That was kind of pushed at us, and we were told that it was beautiful, and what I started to see was some people of color either being ashamed of who they were or trying their best to assimilate. So I wrote "Baby Got Back," not to say which race is prettier — which is silly, because there were white women with the same curves that were told that they were fat, too. There were people that were actually saying that Marilyn Monroe looked bad. They didn't say that at her peak, obviously, they said it later on.

So I wrote this song not as a battle between the races. I wrote the song because I wanted Cosmopolitan, I wanted all these big magazines to kind of open up a little bit and say, "Wait a minute, this may not be the only beautiful." I mean, I don't look at Serena Williams as fat. I don't think she has an ounce of fat anywhere on her. I didn't want there to be one voice. I wanted to say, "Hey, us over here! What we feel like is this."

What I meant by "L.A." was Hollywood. In other words, makeup or whatever it took to make that face look good, they do it in L.A. But, as much as you can throw makeup on something, you can't make up the butt. That's what L.A. face and Oakland booty meant. You can put makeup on that face and make it look beautiful, but a butt is a butt, a body is a body.

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ETA: I'm pretty sure the reporter mis-transcribed that last phrase. You know he said a booty is a booty.

I sure hope she doesn't back down and gives us one of those faux apologies.

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oh, the stupid SJWs and black people got upset

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Doesn't bother me. She obviously didn't mean it in a offensive way.

This is the kind of shite that turns people off on social movements.

This thread has gone from making my day to making my week. I'm glad it was bumped. I'm starting to feel a little more lively because of it.

her arse looks better in those pics than in the op