Ms. Loveessence Weighs: Let's Celebrate, Not Denigrate

Ms. Loveessence is here to share her opinion and to give us her hard dose of reality! Here's what she had to say about the big booty craze:

Hey, all! Ms. Loveessence here to let you know what's on my mind!

Yes the big booty craze has gone to far!  For centuries,  black women in the United States of America have been made to feel inferior for their wide hips and protruding buttox.  I'm all for reversing this trend by affirming that beauty can come in all forms. Indeed, we should celebrate the tall lean figure of Alek Wek,the slim but voluptuous figure of Beyonce, and the busty and petite frame of Sherri Shepherd. 

But in my view, music videos that parade scantily clad women shaking rotund rumps to the delight of alpha male rappers commanding them to "drop it like its hot" or show them what "their working wit" do not constitute healthy celebrations of diverse body types. For young impressionable black women, such ideals of female beauty can seem just as unattainable as the images of rail thin blonde blue-eyed models on the pages of Vogue.  Some of these impressionable black women will attempt illegal butt pumping just as others turn to skin bleaching products and colored contacts.  

The situation is sickening. But there is good news.  We are not powerless. Every time that we turn on BET, go to YouTube, or download music we make choices about what stays on air. We should support artists and music videos that support us and our conceptions of black women as beautiful and brilliant multi-faceted people who are worthy of love and admiration, not just sexual objectification.

 

I think that the following R&B video is beautifully sensual and celebrates the black body in a respectful way.  This is what we might want to support.

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