Hi all

I just discovered this website and find it a very enjoyable one!

I wanted to ask your views on something that has been bothering me for a while now- The western ideal of beauty.

I watch several programmes on telly here in the UKwhere they actually make fun of women with big bootys- surely they can not be unaware that in the black community it is a thing of beauty?

So I am taking it to mean that they do not recognise that we can have our own standards of beauty. I am so tired of watching programmes where people say' God I hate my bum, its so big! Hello, thats what black people are craving for!

Ive seen movies like 'Date movie' where they made fun of a female character by giving her a very unreal huge booty which she used to knock things off tables etc!

This has led to some sisters beginning to lose confidence in their well endowed bootys- a friend of mine who is shapely recently announced that she had joined Weight Watchers! It made me so sad.

I personally find it insulting that they think that EVERYONE both black and white should aspire to have huge breasts and a flat booty.

What does everyone think about this