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Big Butts: What’s With The Obsession?

By Jeanene James November 5, 2009 4:23 pm

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It all started in 1992, when Sir Mix A Lot announced that he liked big butts, and about that, he couldn’t lie. Since then, we have been consumed by the big booty hysteria.

The big butt pandemic appears to have taken this country and its inhabitants by storm.  Perhaps never before has a single body part been so overly glorified. The butt has become a pop culture obsession that is taking over our air waves, TV screens, minds and bodies.  No longer is the big butt a largely unrecognized feature attributed solely to the African-American woman. Sometime after the era of skinny-obsession in the early 90s, it became cool to have a larger derriere. Somewhere between that point and now, it became necessary to have a big butt. There is scarcely a rap song out there that is free of lyrics proclaiming blatant adoration of, not just the butt, but the huge “bootylicious,” “badonka-donk,” “fatty.” There is scarcely a red carpet lacking beautiful women turning away from the cameras in order to enable the perfect booty photo op.  There is scarcely a time when a well endowed woman walks down the street without droves of men breaking their necks to check out her back. What’s with the big booty obsession? When did it become cool to have a “fat” a*s? And why?

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Its a beautiful thing to see a woman with a nice shape, but to demand an outrageous hip-to-waist ratio from every woman seems unfair. There is now so much pressure to have a “donk” that women are seeking surgical procedures to enhance their natural assets. The ‘booty obsession’ is becoming a ‘booty complex’ that might have a negative effect on some women and their body image perceptions. While the ‘donk’ movement has embraced a slew of women (namely ethnic women) who were once excluded from mainstream concepts of beauty (which equated beauty with slimness), it has excluded those fondly referred to as the “little booty cuties.” While the big booty obsession seems like a passing trend, its current reign over black womens’ self image is quite powerful, and even more alarming.

What are your thoughts? What’s with the booty obsession?

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TAGS: body image, weight, women
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  • NappyBoy25
    NappyBoy25
    11-9-2009 3:03 pm

    will sumbody tell me whats the difference when a person doesn’t want to talk to another because they are to skinny or big?the difference between short hair or long?light skinned or dark?nothing at all,im a ass fan,as many of my fellow brothers,and its all about preference,we aint just started this,yall just now noticing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • NappyBoy25
    NappyBoy25
    11-9-2009 3:01 pm

    will sumbody tell mw whats the difference when a person doesn’t want to talk to another because they are to skinny or big?the difference between short hair or long?light skinned or dark?nothing at all,im a ass fan,as many of my fellow brothers,and its all about preference,we aint just started this,yall just now noticing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • batman2525
    batman2525
    11-9-2009 2:08 pm

    WHATEVER THE REASON A BLACK WOMAN WITH A NICE LOOKING BADONKA DONK,IS SEXY.SHE BECOMES SEXIER IF THE PERSONALITY IS THERE AS WELL,AND HOW SHE HANDLES HERSELF,I LIKE WATCHING THOSE HIPS SWING FROM SIDE TO SIDE AS SHE DIPS AND GLIDE.SHAKE THOSE HIPS.BY THE WAY WHEN THOSE THREADS COME OFF LET IT HANG,BOUNCE BABY BOUNCE.

  • MsBossLady2luciousb
    MsBossLady2luciousb
    11-9-2009 1:02 pm

    I have to disagree wit aaronaroc…cause White men love booty as well as boobs, its about preference again and the sexual appeal of the well endowed anything…which I explore in my book “Diary of a Bigg Butt Woman” due out January 2010,we have an obsession with bigger is better and “does size really matter”? Some of the ladies in te pictorials just don’t look real or right, whats natural will not look like “fake boob implants’, the gluteous Maximus the largest
    muscle in the body equates to “more cushion for the pushin” “more bounce to the ounce”.
    And what the media is now acknowledging that booties increase viewer/readership and at least have that “wow factor”. In the People of color from Africa to North America and places in between, the round and rotund was always favored! Listen I had a big butt long before it was
    popular and there is an ugly flipside to having a big ole ass like a woman at age 11 years old.
    So is it all good? It should be, but it has sexual connotations “the large ass”, therefore it can be both corrupted and exploited!
    One love ,many blessings!

  • aaronaroc
    aaronaroc
    11-9-2009 12:45 pm

    WE AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN LOVE BIG BUTTS. CAUCASIANS MEN LOVE BOOBS.
    THAT’S IT

  • jazzwatch
    jazzwatch
    11-9-2009 2:06 am

    C’mon, Stacey, Serena and Kim K! I’m a cartoonist and I would like to holla at ya. If I could onnly get a woman with a REAL ass. I won’t be satisfied, I’ll be SASSIFIED!

  • jazzwatch
    jazzwatch
    11-9-2009 2:01 am

    C’mon, Stacey, Kim K and Serena…I’m a cartoonist and I want to holla at ya, and if i I can be with one (or ALL) the ladies with REAL booties, I’ll won’t be satified; I’ll be SASSIFIED!

  • _UnStoPable_
    _UnStoPable_
    11-9-2009 12:01 am

    ladies…what do u say when you man has a much protruding azz than you?…skinny but has that azzz.also any1 ever date a man who has stretch marks on their thighs>?…

  • 2daTopnonStop
    2daTopnonStop
    11-8-2009 8:04 pm

    This isn’t an all of a sudden thing~ go to a museum once in a while and you’ll see portraits and statues of curvacious women~

    DON’T HATE Eat a hot decatent meal and you’ll get a “fatty” too…

  • Imanishakur
    Imanishakur
    11-7-2009 11:53 pm

    OMG! i am 45 now and the kids were so cruel in high school and a few in college as well. i didn’t get too many complaints from the fellas but the teasing was merciless and the comments “you’ve got a great future behind you”. men always walking behind me making comments. men running into stuff on the street not paying attn to where they were driving. i thought my middle name was “big ass”. ridiculous stuff. and italian men love big booties now. let me tell ya! butt i exercised my poor body to death to try to be the glorified 36-26-36 butt to no avail. so i suffered thru all this until sir mix a lot! butt it was too late. i was already in my 30s, married and no longer dating. my husband did appreciate my badonka donk though, i couldn’t understand why. i hated my figure. even my close friends teased me but i later realized these same friends were stair-stepping their way to have my butt. they were purchasing butt pads from frederick’s of hollywood. just crazy. now at 45 and divorced, i just have an old lady figure! butt to my sisters with the larger derrieres God Bless those booties. wear them proudly. glad you’re finally getting some recognition. still…just crazy!

  • itskelsbaby
    itskelsbaby
    11-7-2009 8:42 pm

    I love the fact that the big butt is finally, finally glorified! I’ve always had a big butt and I have always loved it, even when white people thought of it as something to be ashamed of! It’s funny though that so many have fake butts and those are the ones that you constantly see. I love it when I see women like Trina who has always had a big butt shown in pictures being praised for what her mama gave her.

  • avmarquis54
    avmarquis54
    11-7-2009 5:08 pm

    I’m sorry but i love my woman to have TIT AND ASS. THE END.

  • Shamel_
    Shamel_
    11-7-2009 4:50 pm

    I guess having a big butt has become an OBSESSION for many because half of those pics contain “FAKE” asses (lmao)! Not to mention they take pics “a s s first…face last” (smh). Hmmmm, goes to show you that they want to be acknowledged for their A S S ets!!! I thank God that I was blessed with booty but (like many others have stated) you gotta work with what you got *shrugs*. At the end of the day it is your confidence and class that will sustain you…that’s what truly turns the heads!

  • Sternie
    Sternie
    11-7-2009 4:17 pm

    I big butt always looks good in Jeans,but soon as you get those jeans off,that ass is all over the place.

  • skinbaby1
    skinbaby1
    11-7-2009 4:15 pm

    i luv a woman with a nice ass, it jus feels good in my hand i like it when it hits my stomach….lol small waist, big waist, i luv it i like the ones with the thumbprint dimples in the back MAN amber rose is fine….

  • Take_it_all
    Take_it_all
    11-7-2009 4:08 pm

    The black woman’s beautiful shape…whether it’s a big ass or a nice rounded ass is a blessing that’s always been appreciated by the black man.

  • THADDIO
    THADDIO
    11-7-2009 3:45 pm

    Since the early 70’s, I have loved a woman with a big butt. But then again I was always attracted to larger women anyway. The butt is a asset on a woman to me

  • YXES88
    YXES88
    11-7-2009 3:43 pm

    LETS PUT IT LIKE THIS EITHER U GOT IT OR U DONT….ME MYSELF HAVE THAT HOUR GLASS SHAPE NICE BUTT…BUT I WEAR A SMALL B CUP LOL…BUT I AINT MAD…I THINK ITS ALL IN HOW U CARRY YOURSELF…U CANT HAVE IT ALL SO I SAY WORK WIT WHAT U GOT….U KNOW WAT A MAN LOVES MORE THAN ASS AND TITS..ITS CONFIDENCE SO IF U FEEL SEXY AND TRULY BELIVE U THE ISH REGARDLESS OF WAT U GOT BACK THERE MEN WILL COME…BEING I MEAN FEELING SEXY IS ALL U NEED……SOMEBODY GONE LIKE IT

  • th3livinmatrix
    th3livinmatrix
    11-7-2009 3:38 pm

    A Phat ass is almost American now as APPLE PIE!!! I mean even white girls be havin phat asses now… it’s a phenomenon that’s sweepin the nation, 36-24-36 only looked right on Marilyn Monroe, now it’s more like 36-28-42(or higher) now wit that bein said, a small booty or no booty is a deal breaker, only if it’s SUPER FLAT!!! I mean a girl has to have some type of ass if she’s gonna be seen wit me, it doesn’t have to be bodacious like Tahiry’s but it has to have shape and structure to it u know what I mean? And a couple of chicks don’t belong on that list y’all showin, Kim K her ass is fake, Angela Lola Love her ass is fake, and Amber Rose, yea she got a nice one, but it ain’t all that big, and same wit Beyonce, she got more thighs and hips than she do ass, and how did Dawn make both the little booty and big booty list??? make up ur mind, and y’all missin some key asses too Melyssa Ford is one, the chick from Big Boi’s video is one, Vida Guerra is one, there’s lots of phat ass females out there, if u really wanna be honest the porn industry got the phattest asses in the biz, get some of those asses on the list, one in particular and fellas I know y’all will agree… Cherokee D’ Ass, and also Pinky, Jazmine Cashmere, etc. and just for the record DAMN Stacey Dash is STILL FINE!!! she gon be a sexxier version of Tina Turner the older she get the better she look!!! but yea big asses r the thing, no more long backs lol, gotta have sumthin pokin out back there… DEUCES!!!

  • Sub-Negro
    Sub-Negro
    11-7-2009 3:16 pm

    The majority of people in this country is white. And white people think big butts=fat and nasty etc. So how did this take this country by storm?

  • ladywild
    ladywild
    11-7-2009 3:04 pm

    A voluptuous hour glass figure is BEAUTIFUL! No more sick, depressing and skeletal images PLEASE! I wrote the book on getting a bigger booty, checkout my profile :)

  • MzBadAzzitGets
    MzBadAzzitGets
    11-7-2009 2:54 pm

    First of all…I Just want to know where did this writer idea come from? Like what made her think that it was a fashion statement….? Like it a pair of shoes or something lol….Like oh yea “THE BIG BOOTY” is now out go cop them real soon everybody getting them…~DEAD~ Truly I feel like If you got it flaunt it why the hell not….If it’s fake then it a mistake it’s going to cost your saggy ass and breast in the long run…. But as far as I am concerned having a shape with a back side is nothing new to the culture… Becase if you look at my family tree everyone of us is blessed with a backside… It just that Black Men wanted it to be known that hey we like our women like this just incase yall didn’t know while yall tryna display the when i should “throw up” Girl on the front Cover… I truly feel this article can fly with the birds with that bull because sorry sista your not about to Make a black man say no to whats been in his blood for generations and that is A woman blessed with Natural body….Sorry appreciate what you have don’t try to come and write some bull about what u truly wish u had just stfu and do like half of them fakies ^^^^^^ up there in those photos if it hurt you that much! DUECES****

  • MzBadAzzitGets
    MzBadAzzitGets
    11-7-2009 2:54 pm

    First of all…I Just want to know where did this writer idea come from? Like what made her think that it was a fashion statement….? Like it a pair of shoes or something lol….Like oh yea “THE BIG BOOTY” is now out go cop them real soon everybody getting them…~DEAD~ Truly I feel like If you got it flaunt it why the hell not….If it’s fake then it a mistake it’s going to cost your saggy ass and breast in the long run…. But as far as I am concerned having a shape with a back side is nothing new to the culture… Becase if you look at my family tree everyone of us is blessed with a backside… It just that Black Men wanted it to be known that hey we like our women like this just incase yall didn’t know while yall tryna display the when i should “throw up” Girl on the front Cover… I truly feel this article can fly with the birds with that bull because sorry sista your not about to Make a black man say no to whats been in his blood for generations and that is A woman blessed with Natural body….Sorry appreciate what you have don’t try to come and write some bull about what u truly wish u had just stfu and do like have of them fakies ^^^^^^ up there in those photos if it hurt you that much! DUECES****

  • new_year_new_things
    new_year_new_things
    11-7-2009 2:11 pm

    all i can say is that cocoa got it…… by far the best.

  • Genevieve_Velvet
    Genevieve_Velvet
    11-7-2009 2:08 pm

    There is nothing wrong with having a big booty or wrong with a man wanting a woman with one.

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