I was watching a Joe Rogan clip and he talked about how in the 80s having a big ass was seen as unappealing.
Also when you watch films from the 90s the girls are always asking "does my butt look big in this?" and "fatass" is a big insult. Now it'd be a compliment to be told you have a fatass.
Was having a big butt seen as unattractive in the eighties/seventies etc? And when did it start to change?
Until the 1990s, the vast majority of mainstream media (movies, TV, magazines, music etc.) featured mostly slender/fit women, because this was the beauty standard for middle and upper-class white people generally, who were the majority of the US population.
But in the 1990s, starting with MTV, there was a rise of "hip-hop culture" on TV - reflecting the tastes of lower-class black folks (virtually all rappers in the 80s and 90s came from poor, gang-infested areas originally, and brought those tastes with them even as they achieved success). "Baby Got Back" was an early 90s song that reflected this change in mainstream media and, for many, was one of the first times people were exposed to the idea that big butts were desirable (to some).
Big butts and larger women generally have always been more popular and more common among the lower class, regardless of color, but there was a larger percentage of blacks and Latinos who were lower-class than white people (though poor whites outnumbered them in raw numbers, because there were far more whites in the US overall). This simply wasn't typically acknowledged in the media, because the media was nearly always "aspirational" - reflecting upper-class tastes, which would give the middle class something to aspire to and, more importantly to the media, spend money on.
Hip-hop culture brought lower-class values into the mainstream where they were widely accepted for the first time - not just aesthetic tastes, but in a number of negative ways, such as views on crime, drugs, and sexual mores, among other things. The 1990s was the big inflection point - even though blacks only make up 13% of the country, on TV, they represented closer to 40% of what you saw, and because so much of it was hip-hop culture, rather than middle-class black culture, the values depicted were lower-class values rather than middle-class ones.
As such, the entertainment media as a whole started to reflect these changes, and so you started seeing big butts far more often in all areas of the media in the 1990s, and that continues today.
For a long time, there was an ideal which was exemplified from the earliest Hollywood films,
through the "pin up girl" era of WWII,
and later bombshells like Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and Sofia Loren.
In the 1960s and '70s, Playboy playmates exemplified the similar feminine ideal.
The ideal shape was relatively symmetrical with something similar to 36", 24", 36" being the norm.
At one time, it was predominantly black women who were genetically predisposed to have giant asses and thick legs, but not exclusively, of course.
Rap music videos may have popularized big butts. And twerking became a thing.
Also, VHS came out in the late '70s and people could buy porn tapes. And on-line porn first became available in the mid-90s. So maybe more extreme female body shapes and exaggerated figures became more predominant through those mediums, too.
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What's Your Opinion? Sign Up Now!Beauty trends come and go over the decades, centuries, and even millennia. I would say having a big butt in the 80s and 90s was generally less culturally popular, and less glorified than it is now. But (butt? 🤔) it's not like there weren't plenty of guys who liked or even preferred bigger butts back then. It's just that it wasn't the trend at the time, and perhaps was a little less popular to admit that you were.
It's worth mentioning that girls with bigger booties were still getting plenty of guys back in those days too. It's not like there was some kind of epidemic of women with a bigger bum being single until the 2000s and 2010s came along. lol
However, movies and TV shows from those decades are only a reflection of current trends during that time - a time capsule of that time period, so to speak - but they aren't necessarily an indication of what all people actually felt was attractive at the time.
What is considered attractive by society has always been fluid; it changes over time, as new trends are introduced, or prominent people introduce new fasions, or body styles.
It used to be royalty, or some other form of nobility of any particular era. As those started to become less prominent, and less numerous, people began following the trends of celebrities, and other famous individuals.
Back in the 80's and 90's, a slim body style was more popular, yes, just as thicker bodystyles and big butts have overtaken them in more recent history, but there have always been people that prefer different appearances, contrary to what is considered mainstream, at the time.
Of course we did -- we just weren't brave enough to admit it.
Yes I think in the 80s it was all about cocaine and being thin but I wasn't born it's just what I heard ^^ Being thick is definitely a newer trend.
Actually we men (Especially Black/Latino) did like big butts back in days especially for a long time (since the 60s, 70s, & 80s) it's just that it wasn't promoted enough until the 80s because women back then had to be the sizes of 125 weight or lower to be hired as a model or to be in the line light of fame. Black films (Drama/Comedy), TV- shows, R&B, and Rap Hip Hop videos are the tools on what helped to promoted big butts more especially in 90s whereas Hip Hop was the golden age that broke barriers across the world.
People were more obsessed with big titties back then. Pamela Anderson and Carmen Electra are a perfect example of that
Well that would contradict Sir Mix a lots I like big butts song now wouldn't it?
wdym? Sir mix a lot's song is literally about how society hates big butts but he loves them
Well recently I have taken a liking to white , Asian, and Latinas gym girl asses paired with a tiny waist.
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