In response to Jeff's posts:
When watching the Beyonce video, Freakum Dress, I completely agree with Jeff that these videos are somehow influenced by Sarah Baartman's past. I have mixed feelings about these videos. I am a feminist, and I am completely supportive of women celebrating and embracing their bodies. Women should not feel that they have to conform to a certain look. I have caught myself even trying to form to the images the mass media say "real women" look like. I think that it is great that Beyonce and man other famous celebrities (Niki Minaj) are showing off their curves and their beautiful body. I don't think they are trying to say one body type is better than another. I think they are in fact, trying to make black women, more confident with their bodies. And I think that is great!
On the other hand, in the video we watched in class it stated that women of the Koi Koi tribe were seen as very sexual by the Europeans. Of course this could be a great thing. Who doesn't want to be seen as sex? But, this could also cause problems with men possible over sexualizing black women. I'm not sure if that would necessarily be bad, but it was just a thought.
I totally agree with that. I think alot of men sexualize black women. They assume They're more willing to have sex. This can be based off of body shape, clothing, dancing, or just negative images of black women. You see black women everyday on the maury show and hear the sterotypes about black women with 20 kids on welfare with no father around. It would be easy to think these women are very sexual. If makes them easier targets for objectification by men.
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