Comments on: Hottentot Venus or just a Big Booty Magazine Cover Model?

By: Lakey Key

Lakey Key — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:24:39 +0000

Sad how majority of the people posting are “suggesting” women of color “change how their ways” of being sexual. Her body was exploited because not only was there a fascination with her body but also a fetish by both the European men and women. How dare you try to degrade the women on the cover of Vibe magazine when you have Katy Perry and other caucasian women seminude or nude on the cover of Maxim. Showing the same thing, trying to ooze sex and failing, and everyone thinks its fine. Why, becasue they arent as curvy or their breast and butt arent as prominent as women of colour are. Its become the cats meow now that more caucasian women are working “very hard” to get behinds more “bigger” but its still looked down upon for the natural roundness we possess is looked down on. You people are hypocrites and blind hypocrites at that. Its like the world doesnt want Black women to be seen as sexy or worthy of being lusted for. All im saying is stop drawing a line SOCIETY and casting women of colour of of the loop because I see more caucasian women working in whore houses and brothels(televised) and you think its beautiful but a black woman in a freekn music video gets frowned upon. LoL….Realistic!!

By: Courtney

Courtney — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 02:40:39 +0000

I believe that there are women who are objectified and then there are women who are pursued and privately desired that their environment “changes” in a way to attempt to exploit them. I encourage any woman who does not feel “comfortable” in her own skin in any situation to leave that situation before it begins to turn into something that makes her solely an object of temptation. Also, it is important to understand that some peope will only see a fully clothed black woman “naked.”

By: Bill Darden

Bill Darden — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 23:54:56 +0000

First of all, I am white and I have a big penis too.
I go to strip clubs all the time where american negro women
have a great time walking around naked. Its great. They
make really good money and the guys get to drink beer
and enjoy themselves. As I enjoy the scenery, my only thoughts
are about sex. Not exploiting anyone. When my pockets are full of cash
my white behind is practically chased around the club.

What a great country!

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Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:33:24 +0000

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By: houston_on_the map

houston_on_the map — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:15:47 +0000

first off, we cant relate this past horror story with the women of today. sarjiite was forced, abused and was made to look like a monster inthe eyes of high society. now today, the flat belly-fat booty type body is the most desired and loved body type out there and the women on the magazine covers and rap videos aint just black women. but hispanic and whites and any other race of women such as arabic, who have this type of body. just cuz a woman is proud of her body and loves to show it dont make her a bad person or dont mean she has no self respect.

By: Dominique

Dominique — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 07:12:37 +0000

I was reading qoutes from the cowardly lion’s song in the original Wizard of Oz story and he mentions in a line the Hottentot being so hot. I found that line strange because I was somewhat familiar with the Hottentot and how the anatomy was strange and peculiar and not necessarily considered hot. However, to see that it was immortalized on film ,how African women were infact viewed as sexually desirable, gave me a bit of a pause on the matter. It reminds me of how our features, lips, nose, hair, ass is overtly treated by the media and those that run it as something to abhor. Yet secretly, or not so, it is coveted, admired and sloppily duplicated (see Kim Kardashian or Lisa Rhinna or any other white girl with booty or lip injections). It seems to me a well planned subversive tactic to continually get people of color to hate who they are, to some how make up for the inferiority felt by those who don’t look like us!

By: Sharon Moore

Sharon Moore — Mon, 10 May 2010 01:58:39 +0000

She lives today. I am built just like her and am treated like a circus freak by some. I nearly came to blows with a female co-worker from Laos who felt it her duty to smack me on the butt at least once a day despite my telling her not to. This happened in a PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS OFFICE! Thank God I had the sense to walk away but I told her supervisor and mine that she had one more time to even act like she was going to smack it and I was going to smack her! Then there are the men who look at me with ambition in their eyes like they want to conquer the mountain! One white girl at work proudly told me at the elevator how she’d seen something on the Discovery channel (or some channel like that) where an entire tribe in Africa had a butt like mine. I stared at her blankly. She got the hint and shut up before she got hurt. The white trainers at the gym give me all of these exercises to do to get rid of my super, extra-large derriere and thighs but all they do is tone. Yes, I have dropped some weight but the shape remains. The struggle is that the smaller I am the harder it is for me to find clothes. I end up wearing 3-4 different sizes depending on the garment. When I stay in the larger plus sizes everything seems to even out better. I only have to wear two different sizes. My African American brothers and sisters are no better. Their comments are ignorant and cruel. If I hear one more, “You need to…” When I learned of the Hottentot Venus I was actual relieved that I was not the only one to ever walk the earth looking like that and it actually made me feel better about myself.

By: laromana

laromana — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:17:58 +0000

This post SPECIFICALLY focuses on the Hottentot Venus and how it relates to “big booty” magazine cover models who are ALL BW.

For those who question the emphasis on the exploitation of BW when “women of other races have also been exploited”, keep in mind that, from day one, unlike women of ANY OTHER RACE, BW have been portrayed as SUBHUMAN, OVERSEXED CREATURES for the SOLE purpose of justifying DISRESPECTFUL,DEMEANING, DEGRADING, and CRIMINAL acts of RAPE, ABUSE, and VIOLENCE against BW/Black girls.

In America, BW slaves had NO LEGAL protection against being raped, sexually abused, or being sexually exploited by ANYONE and NO ONE was expected to respect the HUMANITY, DIGNITY, and FEMININITY of BW.

To add insult to injury historical ANTI-BW RACISM/HATE in American culture has been used as a tool to promote ANTI-BW LIES, MYTHS, and STEREOTYPES that preserve/uplift White beauty supremacy.

By: Jocyleen

Jocyleen — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:11:32 +0000

Why are people trying to make it look lke it’s just black women who sell themselves???? White women, Mexican women, latino women, etc… There are women of ever race that do it… So don’t just say that BLACK women are the only ones…. Men also do it too…. I’m tired of people thinking that they are better than others just because of their race… We are all created equal and no one is better than anyone… God made us all the same just alittle lighter or a little darker than the next person, but that does not make you better…. And to those who think that they are better kiss my ass and go suck a d*** cause in the end the only opinion that really matters is gods and he is the only person who can judge us…..

By: Jocyleen Cox

Jocyleen Cox — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:57:36 +0000

ThAt is sad how they treated her, and it really pissed me off…. this just goes to show just how stupid those people were who treated her and other blacks like animals…. I don’t even know what to say….. How could they treat people like that???? This world is crazy…. Then for people to put up lil dumb shit and actually joke about it is sick….. This makes me hate white people and everything that they have done to other races….. I know that it was a long time ago but there’s still people like this living today…..

By: Revelationship

Revelationship — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:06:45 +0000

Let us be real, it is not only black women on display. All manner of women are being exploited at alarming rates. I love people, particularly black folk. Our lives are not independent of eachother. What happens to one of us has an impact on us all. We can all change the climate of our lives for the betterment of all. Two cents given.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:15:27 +0000

As a white man of eastern European origin I have always been attracted to beautiful black women. I dated a black women for two years but sadly neither her family nor mine could ever accept our relationship. This was in the 80′s. I think things would have been different today in 2009.