village voice cover story: "white girls with big asses, man"

White girls should have skinny little white asses, and be pasty and lithe and adorable. That's the way God wanted them.

Get aroused?

ihttp://www.singlesburg.com/members/88972/my_butt.jpg

xpost - my opinion: butts rule. but if the author is concerned because she skinny legs and an out-of-proportion ass, then that's her problem not the reader's.

Oh hells yes.

xpost - isn't that how the article concludes, lauren? - Either way, the "phenomenon" is just confirming what we white girls with big asses have known for years. There's always been a secret society of us.

i liked this article.

it sounds like she should be the editor of a literary magazine ca. 1925

Forget sarah vowell, this thread is the perfect venue for my continuing crusade to introduce the word steatopygous to the breathlessly waiting world.

the steatopygous Abyssinian breed, broad-shouldered, thin-flanked, fine-limbed, and with haunches of prodigious size

It's true, this describes me perfectly

I prefer the word neotonous – why bcz it is mellifluous and it is about the CUETS.

http://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/honr219d/images/05/neoteny.gif

it's the new callipygian

just out of curiosity, now that i know what sloane crosley looks like -- did she lose a significant amount of weight since this voice article? cos otherwise she is a liar on par with james frey on the topic of ass.

haha i was thinking the same thing

Yup, I've been saying that since as soon as I saw her. Almost wrote a letter to the Voice about clear double standards re: Nick Sylvester / ass

ass imposter

(that's going on my band name list)

I mean this photo is a bit dark but I consider it definite proof of her bald-assed lies:

http://www.observer.com/files/imagecache/vertical/files/Sloane-Crosley.jpg

Although there's something a bit touchy about Schef -- of "I have a big ass" thread fame -- being the one doing the accusing here

Sloane sonned in assless beef

Crosley made a claim she cannot BACK UP

She had a lot of cheek to say it.

dude it's not about the fact that she's thin, you can be thin and have an ass. she's completely flat-assed.

i demand truth in assvertising

Declined: insufficient buns

i am just flabbergasted by her bald-faced lies and the voice's assistance in this matter! i thought i knew the voice better ;_;

it's like learning the tooth fairy is fake

disappointed this isn't a picture thread

If I remember correctly, a related picture thread was started, back in the day.

white women with big asses - name them!

Suggest Buns.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/kristof-where-pimps-peddle-their-goods.html?_r=1

"Alissa thought about using her real name for this article but decided not to for fear that Village Voice would retaliate."

sorry, nitpicking but "Paradoxically, Village Voice began as an alternative newspaper to speak truth to power." - not actually true.

did a double take because the last story i wrote for the voice could be described as "songs about big asses, man"

Also "It publishes some superb journalism" potentially no longer true.

i had no idea about what that opinion piece is talking about. i always knew the v.v. had some dodgy ads in the back, but sheesh. did xagau, hoberman, et al ever speak out against this while they were employed by voice media?

VVM (via their local papers) was running stories last year about how human trafficking/teen prostitution/etc. is vastly overestimated, etc.. Which seems like it might be true, but given their hooker ads in the back seemed extremely self-serving.

it was entirely self serving

it's the opposite of self-serving!

http://www.realtvcritics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/village-voice-ashton.jpg

http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-06-29/news/real-men-get-their-facts-straight-sex-trafficking-ashton-kutcher-demi-moore/

Can't believe he agreed to pose for that

Use of the term "the big lie" is rarely a good look.

that article is fishy. so maybe 100,000-200,000 is a very high estimate. then what? do we not worry about child trafficking? do we not object to it. the voice article just denounces kutcher et al and leaves it at that.

Exactly. Even if it's not tens of thousands of underage girls being prostituted through their site, some are and whatever screening mechanisms they have are evidently not particularly effective. There's no real attempt to engage with the problem, other than rubbishing the unrealistic estimates of well-meaning people.

I know some people involved in the sex industry and they're pretty sensitive about this subject - they view the reports of trafficking and exploitation as moralistic propaganda to keep their work illegal. They're great people, and actively involved in doing things that benefit the sex worker community, but there's a definite wilful blindness there as well as a tendency to ascribe dubious motives to some excellent outreach programmes for exploited women.

well there is a difference between a woman who chooses to go into prostitution (even if the broader scenario involves diminished economic opportunities etc.) and a 15-year-old who is forced into prostitution under continual threat of violence.

the whole issue is rather complex i'll admit. but we agree that the voice's response is very dodgy and self-serving.

Absolutely. Even if they felt they needed to come out to tackle what they view as myths about the sex industry, the "real men" and "big lie" tone is completely off.

"real men" is a play off of something ashton said iirc

yeah "real men don't buy girls" was his anti-trafficking tagline iirc

shamed out of human trafficking

yeah that seems like an amazingly ineffectual campaign -- i'd imagine folks who would pay to have sex with young teenagers have other issues besides fragile masculinity.

Any campaign fronted by Ashton Kutcher's probably going to be fairly ineffectual outside the frat-bro market and fragile masculinity might, at least, have some play there.

"village voice front-and-center web site story: 'white girls with big asses, man'"
― amateur!!!st, Monday, August 16, 2004 2:19 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's more of a backstory, really.
― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, August 16, 2004 2:19 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol ILX when it was mostly people in their twenties. Wow @ us

ps. some white girls have always had big asses.
― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, August 16, 2004 11:36 AM (twelve years ago)

The Dallas alt-weekly's page count seems to have dropped by almost half since they stopped advertising escorts.

"emobutt"!!!!
Kill me now.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, August 16, 2004 5:27 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Because I misread that as "elmobutt".
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, August 16, 2004 5:27 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink