Are You Working Out For Yourself Or Black Men’s Ideal Body?
From Frugivore — We all work out for different reasons. Some of us for health, some of us for beauty and some of us for the wrong reasons. There’s no doubt that we are a media influenced society. Everything from where we live, the words we speak, what we buy and the way we dress comes from some form of media. One aspect of our lives that media heavily influences is beauty, and in a big way.
The “standard” of beauty we are to live by shows up in our television shows, music videos, and movies, and judging by what’s shown on all these mediums, men — more specifically black men — have a very specific standard. They like ‘em with a tiny waist, thick thighs, and huge … assets, among other things.
It’s these images and qualifications have many women flocking to the gym in hopes of creating the Nicki Minaj’s surgically-enhanced shape, a figure that many black men are currently drooling over. They spend hours working out their legs, butts, and abs in an effort to meet what they think will make them desirable to this certain segment of men. Some of these women forgo their chest, back, shoulders, and arms in the gym, overtraining their hind parts in an effort to make themselves appealing to men who clearly see them as objects first, humans second.
This is truely the generation of the attention whore movement.
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Can you expound on that statement, Mr. Man?
Are we doing anything for black men anymore? I’m working out to look good for me and any man is welcomed to appreciate that!
@Laugh – You would be surprised. I used to go to this website for black women. The fitness section was mostly about fit black women wanting to gain weight. It was so weird to see. Other women talk day and night about losing weight, but they wanted to gain. You know they were doing it
@Laugh – You would be surprised. I used to go to this website for black women. The fitness section was mostly about slender black women wanting to gain weight. It was so weird to see. Other women talk day and night about losing weight, but they wanted to gain. You know they were doing it for the men. For example white women obsess over being thin. They do that for each other. They get breast implants because they know that men like it or they gain some weight sometimes. Black women don’t seem to have an ideal body type they they’ve decided is for them and is healthy. Most of what they do revolves around this ideal black body that men like.
I’ve seen fat girls calling themselves “thick” and stay fat just so they can keep their butt (or maybe they’re using that as an excuse). Men are men. I see fit chicks with regular butts everyday getting guys. When black guys date out, those women don’t have big butts, so I don’t really care. That says to me, that an average, round, in- shape butt must actually be good enough to black men.
Black men may talk about the Beyonce body type but most of them still get excited over Kelly Rowland. When they get with Becky, she is usually not a Coke bottle. I’d rather work to look like Kelly than gain weight in all the wrong places because I’m trying to get a body type not for me.
hell naw shes not usually a “coke bottle” black men tend to date white women who are more of a 6 gallon jug.. just sayin
I’m working out to find me a husband, no shame in my game!!!!!!
j-philly, where you at?! Munchin g on some fruit, nuts, grains, veggies?!
Hell it is what it is.
“The “standard” of beauty we are to live by shows up in our television shows, music videos, and movies, and judging by what’s shown on all these mediums, men — more specifically black men — have a very specific standard. ”
This is not a new standard, nor is it one that black men came up with. Why black men and women get blamed for every dayum thing is beyond me. Look at cartoons and animated movies from back in the day. Look at dolls from the 80′s, 90′s, etc. Perfect example is Jessica Rabbit (who framed roger rabbit for those who don’t know what I’m talking about) she looks exactly like what you described. Look at the cartoons that are of people not animals and look at how they are drawn. I’ve noticed many times and this was in 2005-2006.
If people are getting into shape to impress the opposite sex, fine. If they aren’t, fine. As long as people are getting into a healthy body fat range, reducing their risks of diabetes, heartache and stroke (all of which run HIGH in the black community) I don’t give a dayum why they are doing it.
Lmfao no! Who cares about what they think! sometimes they’ll take anything as long a it’s “thick” (fat) .. I’m working out so I can fit my clothes better and the serotonin makes me happier
@apple
Let the record show it wasnt black men who turned fat into thick. It was fat women and white people. Fat women because they used “thick” as a euphemism for their fatness and white people because anything that wasnt in the single digits was considered fat to them.
Lets be real, no man, not even black men, want a fat woman. Some men dont have options.