Ever heard of J.Lo, Suze? Seriously, after J.Lo became famous, women everywhere flocked to their plastic surgeons for enhancement. Butt implants are pretty common.

Jesus... What a total fucking moron. Especially since a girl SO doesn't have to be a video vixen to want to have an ass. And anyway, it seems pretty obvious from the link that those butt enhancers don't make an ass biger, they just make it non-flat. All issues of racism aside, just seems bizarre that a fashion editor would fail to grasp the difference.

Oh - and you know what else Suze? Not all men love long hair! Gasp! I know, it's hard to believe, huh?

Suze is just jealous cuz her ass is flat as a pancake, and her boyfriend just told her she's no fun in the sack cuz her bony ass pokes him in the nuts.

Wow. Really? So all those girls in my high school theatre dressing room were just straight up lying to me when they said they envied my bubble?

The bitches at Glamor just need to stop. So racist...so painfully, painfully racist.

Dumb gringa. Oops, did I write that out loud?

I feel its more "WASP-y" (or Jew-WASP-y in this case??) than racist. I know not one WASP who aspires to a larger ass. They all want to lift, tone and minimize.

This just shows how whack everybody in the fashion industry is. They aren't in touch with the real world. They aren't in touch with what women want their bodies to look like, or what men want to see.

*So* happy my Jane subscription has been replaced with Glamour!

All kidding aside, girlfriends have told me they envied me for being able to fill out pants - I mean really fill 'em out.

Ohmigod... Like, her butt dimples are SO big.

@ae38: I just held myself back and didn't post about this need among so many Jewish women to look like the perfect WASP. I started straightening my hair, wearing head bands, wearing pink Lily dresses, all trying to fit this image of Charlotte. Then I discover that Charlotte's got hips like mine, and she ends up converting to Judaism, and I realize I can love my wavy hair and curvy Jewish bod.

Her love of William Sledd was enough to warrant my hatred. Save it Sledd stans: he does not have the fashion talent to even justify his casual misogyny, let alone his orangey permatan, sad highlights, and too-cool-for-school bangs.

May I recommend:
[www.glamour.com]

"Got an opinion about Glamour? Sure you do -and we want to hear it. Use this form to submit your comments to the editors of Glamour."

@petuniacat: Exactly. It can't be fun to curl up with a sack of hammers every night.

Suze, get a clue, girl. Guys like a little cushion for the pushin'.

@Andalucía: Word. I cannot STAND William Sledd.

Seriously, I've never met someone who wanted a larger rear, have you?

Two words: Kim Kardashian.

Most (straight) men would rather see it shake than hear it rattle.

@ceejeemcbeegee: Hah! I'm so gonna use that!

@Pherdnut: Speaking of dimples - I spent like 20 minutes in front of the mirror last night because I have actual dimples on my face, and not just deep smile lines! (I know, not my butt, but still!) I've been wanting dimples since I was a kid, and now, after years of waiting they've miraculously appeared! So take that Suze the Looze - Not only does this girl like her big butt, but she also likes her chubby, dimply cheeks!

@ae38: I can be said that it is normal for most white women not to want extra back-side...but she didn't say white women. She said women. Not all women are white, not all women I know are white, and not all women hold themselves to the dominant ethnicities standard of beauty. It's sheer and utter ignorance that there are any other standards in the world that aren't white beauty that is on parade here.

@popularheresy: But is it normal (or okay) for white women to want to look like white women of a different ethnicity? Even among white women, we too often strive to appear whiter by fitting certain white ideals...like a small nose, small thighs, light and straight hair.

When you have white people trying to be "whiter," that is going to add to larger scale racism. It will result in white people with low self esteem doing their best to differentiate themselves from people who are not white, in order to show how white they are. And then, well....maybe that leads to incidents like Jena, or America's ability to lock a third of a generation of African American in prison without thinking twice.

I'm white but was raised Puerto Rican and it totally shows. (Red beans and rice didn't miss me, either.) I've never had anything but compliments on my ass. So much to the point that, when I dated a guy who said he "wasn't much of an ass man," I asked him why the hell he was dating me.

And since moving from my predominantly-Latino hometown in the SE (guesses, anyone?) to the complete opposite lily-white corner of the country, I've noticed young white girls have plenty going on in the ass department, themselves. Something about hormones in cow milk....

When I moved in to my new apartment, I was that the wall to wall closet in my room had mirrored sliding doors. .. but now that I get to see my bum from every conceivable angle, no matter where I stand in my room, I find that I kinda like it.

I'm a size 18, so God knows it ain't perfect, but the more I look at it, the more I think 'Damn, it's really cute'

That was totally useless and TMI, but thought I'd put that out there.

@Lymed: I think I agree with you. Though I am not sure people who dye their hair blonde or put in color contacts are trying to act more white per se, but rather do these things to themselves because these features have been fetishized as the "all-american" beauty...Which, yea, is white.

@Lymed: Do you really think this woman has a plethora of minority friends? Like seriously. Maybe the woman who cleans her apartment and the editor down the hall she tries to constantly set up with the only black guy she knows from college. NY can be the most segregated place, esp. amongst the rich and PR-power elites, so view this as an op-ed from a woman expressing her views as she sees things in her myopic world and don't get so bogged down by it.

Also, that was meant to PopularHeresy, obvs.

@popularheresy: (also, I will ignore how misinformed you are to lump all white women in one bucket since there are many white women - hello, Miami - who like a rounded arse. just sayin')

@ae38: I didn't mean to lump all white women into one boat there, I'm sorry if it came out that way. That's why I (tried, way to go typo) to write "it can be said". Different regions most certainly have different body standards.

I guess why I'm getting so wound up about it (though not really, I'm currently splitting my time between the book Ponofided and my reading assignment for my Sociology of Contemporary Music class) is that even if her world view is myopic, she works for a national publication. Her options, like it or not, will be read by millions. Mine...Not so much.

@persephone: I'll go for...Miami!

As a white chick, I take pride in my booty. I have been told by several races that I "have a whole lotta ass for a white girl!" And, it kinda was nice to hear. And yes, there are white girls who do wish they had junk in the trunk.

I am always eager to recommend to them my Ben and Jerry's and ANTM marathon weekends to build a nice jean filler.

I've come to like my badonk. Granted, I don't much like the way it looks in a bathing suit, but I love the way it looks in a pencil skirt. And so do plenty of dudes. So suck it, Glamour.

There's been a lot of "I like my big ass" and not a lot of "I'd like my ass even bigger" in here, which is what she actually said. Why do you suppose that is?

And I would wear butt-enhancer, why not? I wear boob-enhancers. This woman appears to be unaware that there is no such thing as a universal standard of beauty.

what u talkin about Willis? O.K. so where do I get this bum enhancer? I am the only African person on this planet without a butt and suffer from serious booty-envy. I do squats, always choose the gluteal option on the eliptical,....but NOOO nothing! Jezebels any ideas? Please help a sister out.

@ae38: I never said anything about her having minority friends. I never said anything about her friends at all. My point is that even whites judge themselves by standards of something that is "more white" and I think that adds to overall racism.

@popularheresy: That's exactly my point. People aren't trying to act white on a conscious level, but the perception of the ideal in our society is based on this ultra white, western European heritage.

I'm lazy enough to continue the Glamour subscription foisted upon me by CN (cancelling it is just so much effort), but even I have standards.

So long as this righteous anger lasts into business hours, that is.

Man, I have ALWAYS wanted a big ass. What's this cracker talking about? hehe.

Isn't this the reason anyone cares about Jessica Biel?

Somehow the new emphasis on big asses kind of grosses me out. Sorry if that's politically incorrect to say here, but it's an ASS. How big do you want it to be?

That's OK - women with tiny asses keep the headboard industry in business, I guess. The guy's gotta hold onto something from behind.
This whole idea of white girls shouldn't have asses is a big part of why I thought I was just huge growing up, even though I was just curvy. I definitely work on toning mine but I never want it to go away - just be more shapely.

It seems the post has been edited. It now reads: I think I've truly seen it all now - check this out: The Brazilian Butt Enhancer. Have you met someone who wanted a larger rear? This is the perfect solution.

Hmmm.

@PantyWaist: Huh? Why do big asses gross you out . There's issues there you may need to work out.

Perhaps it's because I'm Hispanic, but I never once thought my ass was too big. Not once. The only girls I ever heard complain about having a big ass were my lady friends of the Caucasian persuasion. Like Chappelle said "Give me that good ol' pancake butt like Mom used to bring home!" Sexy!

I grew up in Brentwood on Long Island. (No, not the Hamptons Long Island - think more Spanish Harlem). In a mostly black and Hispanic neighborhood, I was one damned lucky white girl. Chunky and brunette, I was loved.

And my Spanish is pretty good, too.

Also, if the world's women all turned into skinny white bitches, I would kill myself. I love the various wimmens.

I have a big butt and I can not lie...when I say that I have seen her flat ass in person and it kinda looks concaved in slacks.

I am forever up in the gym just workin' on my buttness. Pancake ass can be improved with many, many squats. So yes, I would like a bigger rear, please.

Uhhh... don't know if her blog posting was changed, or what, but her little blurb now reads, "I think I've truly seen it all now - check this out: The Brazilian Butt Enhancer. Have you met someone who wanted a larger rear? This is the perfect solution." I doubt Jezebel misquoted her, so maybe she was alerted to the idiocy of her original statement...?

@lisas: I do, I do!

I pulled my gluteus maximus yesterday and it hurts like a mofo every time I move. My first thought was, if I use this muscle so damned much, why is my ass so flat? Seriously, pants just flap in the wind over my ass. I jog just to build up some butt tissue. From what previous commenters have said, sounds like I should be doing squats.

In my humble, white-bread raised but big butt devotee opinion, middle and late-middle aged white women, of the affluently accomplished or at least aspirational, do. not. like. sex. period. They like to look good: have perfect hair, perfect skin, perfect fashion taste and perfect money. BUT THEY DO NOT LIKE THE SWEATY, SMELLY INCONVECIENCE OF SEX. So they wanna be 'no-asses' like the vast majority of women on the runway. For them, this empty status is uber sexuality. I see them all the time in my neighborhood, with really nice clothes, but absolutely no sexual attractiveness at all, and often have the chance to eavesdrop on their convos. I have no use for such women, and truly believe that somewhere deep in the Coco hearts (as in Chanel) they miss that interaction.

@lisas: I like my ass, and while I don't think I'd use an ass-enhancer, that's more to do with comfort than anything else. I also don't generally wear padded bras (although it can be hard to find a bra w/out padding, but that's a different topic).

That said - I do often dress to enhance my backside, even though Glamour would have me believe I need to wear butt minimizing jeans.

I wish my butt was a little bigger!

Though buying pants would be even harder than it already is.

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