Our class reading on race and femininity in music videos by Diane Railton and Paul Watson had some interesting points and in the end i was convinced of the sexualisation of women according to their race. Not only that but what shook me the most was how black women’s body parts were considered primitive and animalistic which i never really thought about that way. Then when i started looking into the music videos that were mentioned in the reading i understood. Especially in the 90s the distinction between white female artists and black females were clear as mentioned in the reading, the white females were fragile and pure needing protection from men whereas black females were portrayed more to by hyper sexualised and aggressive.

‘The protruding butt is seen as an indication of a ‘heightened sexuality’….Mos Def’s ‘Ms Fat Booty’ which celebrates an ‘ass so fat you can see it from the front’,…the exaltation of the ‘black butt’ in Destiny’s Child’s ‘Bootylicious’.   -The Ferine and The Figurine- Pg97

BBW is an urban slang that stands for Big Black woman. It was used by many rappers including the infamous Drake. There are also adjectives such as ‘thick’ to describe women who have vuloptuous figures.  I don’t know about before in the olden days but right now we are living in a world where it’s all about big butts. Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda is an example of how glorified big butts are these days to the point where the ‘guys don’t want none unless she’s gone buns’. Having big butts has now become whats good and i feel like a lot of black female artists have come so far to change the racial inferiority for the black women to be on the upper. I think it’s truly wonderful the way they empower black women to be more confident with their bodies and to embrace it but when they have to make other body types to feel lesser than them, it may discourage other females who do not have that booty and just like Nicki Minaj says the guys are more interested in the booty.