By David Futrelle
When you hear someone talking about a woman’s winsome thickness, you may find yourself flashing back — at least if you’re an old like me — to Sir Mixalot’s Baby Got Back. But there are some people out there who evidently start thinking about The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Consider the following terrible copypasta, which seems to have originated on 4Chan’s /pol/ back in 2017, alleging that the current popular obsession with big butts and other appealingly oversized body parts is the result of some sinister secret scheme masterminded by, well, you take a wild guess.
Damn, I guess I already have!
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Rubens was a race-traitor!!!!
http://static3.uk.businessinsider.com/image/5a9815b87708e947cd192e07-1502/venus%20von%20willendorf.jpg
/sarcasm
@ Sophist:
Rubens… that sounds (((jewish)))!! Oh, Peter Paul Rubens? well, maybe not….
@ Kivutar:
That’s Neolithic, which is Science-Speak for “pre-christian”, which is “History-Speak” for (((jewish)))!!!
….
These people are actually pretty sharp, speaking of course, of the igno-right trolls…. There is a lucrative market for new “sinister conspiracies” about the Jews, and the trolls are making bank by serving that market!!
Actually, that’s only sarcasm in the strictest sense, as I’m guessing a BUNCH of the people involved in igno-right internet infomercialling are really doing it to make a buck. They likely are bigots, and likely have some pretty rancid beliefs… but I’d think most of them are too lazy to put fantasy to keyboard if there’s no $$$ to be had.
Jordan “Surf.n.Turf” Peterson, I’m calling YOU out. And Fartiste, and Stephen Moly-noxious, and Chris Can’t-well (is he in jail?)…
Can I just complain about how I spent years wondering why the Venus of Willendorf’s head looks like a golf-ball until I finally saw a photograph from an angle that makes it easier to tell she’s looking down and her hair is braided (or very evenly wavy/curly, or possibly she’s wearing a crocheted tuque, idk)?
You know, I disagree with that monster says and I’m not attracted to women’s bodies, so I shouldn’t care… but I really want those 5 dumb letters to GO AWAY!
Seriously, I’ve seen every single body type on the planet being called “THICC!”. Like… is this the state of the world? Have we forgotten words like “voluptious” or “buxom” or other nice words that can’t also be interpreted as a woman being slow in the head?
Yes, that actually pisses me off…
@TheKND
That’s too bad that you get irrationally angry at language evolving. Imma still use thicc though. ?
‘Thicc’ body types are more common among non-whites? Really? Citation needed.
@TheKND – THICC is shorter than the other two words you offered, and so works better when you have a limited amount of characters.
It’s also AAVE. Here’s a link to ‘know your meme‘.
So Thicc Thighs Don’t Save Lives???
@Rhuu
Well, Buxom is the same length as Thicc, at least letter-wise. If you count syllables though, Thicc is shorter. :/
I always love the whole crap about “normalizing” “celebrating” or “encouraging” obesity.
It’s all just another excuse to treat people like garbage and feel powerful over them.
Gods forbid anyone be allowed to like themselves. It’s hard to approve of others who have the audacity to feel happy when you’re a miserable self-hating jerk who doesn’t think anyone else should be happy.
& before someone comes in with the “but obesity is unhealthy!” try to remember that the BS about “normalizing” “celebrating” or “encouraging” has also been used against gay people, too. Amongst others.
Mhm, mhm, so then… millennia of evolutionary pressures, which the OP undoubtedly contends have conditioned human beings to prefer slender physique, shall be undone in just a few decades by some crafty jews?
I want to see the prime specimen of humanity who posted this. And all his medical stats, too. If he gets to police women’s bodies, women should get to police his.
Also, fun fact: Sir Mix-A-Lot’s video contains no actual big butts or thick anything.
Or Judaism, come to that.
Big Pharma and Big Butt secretly control Washington.
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@Buttercup:
I suspect you’re right. Donnie IS a big ass, and rumor has it he snorts crushed Adderall. His sniffy performance at the election debates made me suspect coke, but there’s no reason why it can’t be both…
@Hippodameia: Nina Paley, whose “dancing goddess” Gifs you linked to, is a rabid transphobe. For example, one of her comics (http://mimiandeunice.com) includes a character named “Jendra Identity” who is a talking penis with lipstick and a wig who spouts straw trans arguments and threatens women with a spiked rainbow bat. I can’t tell if it’s TERFism or Cult of True Womanhood nonsense, but it’s pretty bad.
…Just a bit of a warning.
Hmmm, I have a big butt and I’m in the other Washington…you may be onto something…
I like the dancing goddesses, but the sheela-na-gig at the bottom is, um, terrifying.
@Snowberry, dang. Now I feel weird about liking the dancing goddesses.
@Weird (and tired of trumplings) Eddie:
You can catch up with many of your favorite (sic) alt-right personalities (sic) as the wheels of justice grind them fine over on Emily Gorcenski’s First Vigil project
@Moon Custafer
I always assumed it was hair, not a hat, but I thought I’d go check.
Turns out that the figurine is, to use a technical term, fucking old. Like, over 20000 years old. She predates the domestication of sheep by at least 10000 years, and it is possible that her maker didn’t even have access to flax, so I think that rules out any sort of fabric hat. Knitting and crocheting are apparently less than 1000 years old, too.
So, yeah. There’s a lot of history that hadn’t happened when that was carved.
Edit: another venus figure, probably more recent by a few thousand years, has braids.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Brassempouy#/media/File:Venus_of_Brassempouy.jpg
Huh. Not only did the image not embed, but the link didn’t even appear.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Venus_of_Brassempouy.jpg
Some people think it might represent a patterned hood, but I’m not one of those.
I know, right? They seem blissfully unaware that a number of cultures around the world consider larger folks to be more attractive than skinnier ones.
Why, it’s almost like such preferences are driven by society rather than biology….
Interesting tidbit I read once about the Venus of Willendorf and figures like her from that time frame. (Forgot where I first found the link; it could have been from someone here. If so, sorry about loosing it. 🙁 ) The article was about whether the artist(s) were more likely to be male or female, and made the point that the physical exaggerations of the Venus actually make sense if you look at it as the artist looking down on her own very pregnant body and using that as her model.
Thought that was an interesting take on why the figures were as fat as they were. YMMV, and all that.
@Pie: despite the pale material used to carve this, I suspect what we are looking at is meant to be a black woman with cornrow hair like:
http://www.askmamaz.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Black-Girls-Braided-Cornrows-Hairstyles.jpg
This is especially likely when one notes that there may not have been any non-black people 20,000 years ago, at least outside of the Far East. The people in the British Isles were dark-skinned at least until 9000 years ago, which makes it likely that the people in Austria also were.