its important to note the difference between beauty standards and beauty trends. while there have been efforts to put forth body postivity/neutrality overwhelmingly the standards of beauty have remained unchanged over the past couple centuries due to of course white beuaty standards, white supremacy and colonialism. that being the standard of women to be slender in most societies. for a moment on tiktok there was a discussion of the difference between what constitutes as fat with regard to white american vs. black american cultures as footage of the singer addison rae sparked controversy with many white women calling addison, a grown woman who not particularly skinny but also definitely not plus sized as fat. white women were ashamed of having asses because of racism. antiblackness in particular. a fat ass is not only seen as fat but its seen as 'ghetto' and 'classless'. even within the black american culture and community a fat ass was seen as desirable but only on a non fat body. the kardashians being the tastemakers of white american popular culture for the past odd 20 years or so are social chameleons, they change their bodies and appearances on whats popular at the time. kim and all of her sisters notably have had a thing for black men going all the way back to the 90s and wanted to attract what they desired so they gave themselves themselves the physical attributes of whats deemed attractive in regards to black femininity. regardless of the racial ambiguity of the kardashians theyre ambiguous enough that theyre still able to associate themselves with the white wealthy elite. hip hop rap and black aesthetics arent as mainstream currently that we're in our second term of trump's america and there's push on all fronts to go back to an era of either the lionized european frail white beauty the stick thin baywatch big boobed blonde of the 80s or the plain unassuming 50s housewife. society is regressing because the racism that never left is becoming increasingly louder and more mainstream and normalized. i dont know if 'edging it to fat asses' is the solution but yall do you.
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