Even though this is a heated conversation, I'm still glad Jezebel has given us a place to have it.

I agree, big ass does not equal black woman in *this* day and age. But, it sure as hell did not so long ago. And some people are still bothered by it. If you aren't bothered by this, that's wonderful and more power to you—and there are POC that aren't bothered by white hipsters donning Native American head-dresses.…

okay, Melissa McEwan.

oh god just shut up

This was where I first found out about Sarah Baartman in the first place. Hers is a horrible, sad story, but I was surprised I had never heard about her before reading this last year, especially when I've heard so many stories like this (as in Katy Perry's backup dancers used as hypersexualized racial props).

Honestly, I just get confused on Jezebel lately. I am tired of each racial article being some war. This article is also really stupid.

She was ethnically and culturally Greek. Hell, before her run the ancient Egyptians (who don't exist as a people anymore) were white. Egypt has only been Arab/muslim for about 1,000 years.

I feel like just because this has a passing resemblance to a stereotype, it doesn't mean that was the intention. Now, don't get me wrong, I think Perry's team was more than a little tone deaf to not see how it might look bad, but I'm not convinced that this was their intention.

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Eh...still reaching. It's literally just mummies with huge asses. So big asses/hoop earrings are automatically a black thing because this show is supposed to be "Egyptian"? Uh...

I mean you could assign those same traits to Latina women. I think this article is digging too much for something that is simply not there. (coming from a black woman with her fair share of bootymeat)

I'm the palest person on the face of the earth and I have a big butt and love hoop earrings.

I do think she appropriates, just not here.

Yes! I understand the need to call out instances of racism and sexism, etc., but all of this begs the question of who bears responsibility for the racist act—the performer or the person who read a racist stereotype onto the performance. And what if the performance IS supposed to be about race but is meant to critique…

And as far as divorce them from their meaning...We don't need to cling on to racist history. Black men were once viewed as sex machines who lusted after white women. Does that mean it's wrong for white women to pursue black men? Does that mean a black man can never try to be sensual without it meaning he's playing…

I read it and thank you for sharing it. It was very interesting.

Right? Says a little more about the accuser than the accused, doesn't it?

Look at Kim Kardashian. That is a white woman famous for having a huge ass! I'm tired of the idea that a big booty and "ratchet" clothes = black. If you (using general 'you' here) think wearing a grill means you're appropriating black culture, maybe you don't know any black people in real life.

Ya, we know what it is. Just because that exists, doesn't mean it is the default reference for everything with a big ass and breasts from there on out.

To each their own, but I didn't think black women when I saw it.