Comments on: The Black Beauty Standard

By: ja sassy

ja sassy — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:30:01 +0000

but its funny how w people make fun of black women thick bodies but now they are injecting and padding and got the nerve to call themselves thick… when we black say thick we mean like Ashanti ..not w girls injecting and calling themselves thick.. stop the copying.

By: ja sassy

ja sassy — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:28:03 +0000

stop the butt injection w women and let blk women have their god given features without copying and the lip plumping is just ridiculous and the tanning to get brown skin.. but you people hate us .. if so , then stay how you were born!

By: Iam2icee

Iam2icee — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:23:19 +0000

I am 5’1 and 190lbs, bi-racial. I have the majority of my weight in my thighs, boobs and backside. I have the traditional coke bottle shape, light skinned and long natural curly hair. Most of the women in my family have thick thighs, big butts and small waists. Some things cannot be helped.

My biggest struggle since kids is getting the stomach as flat as it used to be. If I didnt see black mainstream standard being portrayed as flat stomach, big butt, thick thighs, long hair and light skinned, and the attention those women get, I might not care as much. Call me shallow but I enjoy the extra attention I get with the shape I already have. Every woman wants to be desired, found attractive and be flattered by a little extra attention every now an then. I don’t think there is anything wrong with that necessarily. The problem is when you take drastic or harmful steps to obtain it.

I am always amazed at the standards the public projects though. In the white community or mainstream community I am fat, in the black community I am thick and curvy. Its too much work keeping up with which one is better. Be who you are and be happy with what you have!

By: Nikura

Nikura — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 05:11:39 +0000

Its not impossible to gain a bigger booty. You can get your glute muscles to grow larger through years of heavy weight lifting and a bodybuilder type diet. The problem with this is that you’re butt becomes firmer and tighter from all the exercise and isn’t as soft and plush as its ideally supposed to be, so you really can’t win either way lol

It some ways the black ideal for beauty is more unattainable that the mainstream one.

By: Mel

Mel — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 02:25:06 +0000

I agree with many thing you said. But it is true that there are some women who can lose weight in one of their areas and not the others. I actually happen to look like the “black standard”. And I have since I was 16. And Ias much as I try to always embrace my body I can’t deny that I hate the attention and I also feel as though that many black women striving to look like this standard have ni clue what it’s like to deal with the attention and the negative comments men make. I just hope all of us can learn to embrace how we look naturally.

By: R Berry

R Berry — Thu, 31 May 2012 21:58:07 +0000

In response to the first few paragraphs of this article, most black women have increased their confidence level. Now they are becoming more physically open with their bodies. One thing we are not realizing is that our race does not have some of the traditional hangups as other races. I am sure I can get plenty of examples of how women of other cultures are forced to dress the way they dress. I know without a doubt if some of those traditional values were dropped there would be a lot more booty woppin’, backside droppin’ and a lot more drinks being knocked off the tables when they go by. (Blame some of this stuff on the cell phone camera, ya’ll know who you are).

By: EssDot323

EssDot323 — Wed, 30 May 2012 19:59:31 +0000

By: The Comment

The Comment — Tue, 29 May 2012 21:10:33 +0000

Well golly! You limit your options to dating a black man who wants a donkey booty and long hair and this and that and a whole lotta other impossible sh*t….well then you deserve to be miserable.

By: TJ

TJ — Mon, 28 May 2012 23:21:18 +0000

You are the problem. Why do you have to say “bubble butt?” Because you have a small butt. It makes me wonder if you really love your small frame or if you learned that you have no choice and have decided to insult others to bring yourself some esteem. You know many others who feel that way? The 100 people of African descent that you know hardly constitutes a majority.

The problem is-how do we embrace ourselves and others without diminishing others and ourselves?

By: lulu

lulu — Mon, 28 May 2012 20:26:58 +0000

there aint that women that look like in real life- if they do they have celluitie and stretch marks to go with it- any way bw must be doing well- because there are plenty of black women giving birth, have husbands and boyfriends and they dont look like a king centerfold