I haven’t written in a while and it’s not that I didn’t have any thoughts, Dear God No! I have too many thoughts some days. I haven’t written because I wasn’t happy with the direction I was taking my blog. So therefore I took some time to regroup. So I am back and I think I have regrouped, at least I hope so.

Now, that I have said that, on to bigger and better, with great emphasis on the BIGGER.

Have you seen the new fad out there right now? If you watch TV, you have probably seen it. If you are Facebook geek or an Instagram junkie, you have seen it. Maybe you haven’t realized you saw it, but you have.

It was unfortunately (very unfortunately) brought to my attention a few weeks ago as our local radio station posted on Facebook a picture of a celebrity singer with Butt Implants. I am not even lying or embellishing the truth one bit when I say that her bottom looked like it had a tumour or a growth. She was wearing the shortest booty shorts and sitting on a chair. A chair with which her legs did not touch, her implants were so big that she was just sitting straight on her implant and nothing else could touch the chair. BLECH!

Why am I talking about bums in my blog? Before you shut me down, let me explain. Let’s start with….

Week One: My co-worker (who we will call Roxy because she will appreciate that) and I found this picture on Facebook regarding the oddest shaped derriere. I have to say it disgusted me and I would go as far to say that it disturbed me. So, being that we work in a salon that has 80% women clientelle, we started showing the picture around and asking for feedback. Every singly one of those women thought it was disgusting and wouldn’t even think of doing that to themselves. We would hear comments such as, “Who wants their Butt to be bigger?” Or “I thought people were paying to have plastic surgery make their butts look smaller.” As we discussed this topic with many women we realized that this new fad was on the rise. We were shown even more pictures of different celebrities who were having these Butt implants done.
Hold that thought, I need to clarify something: This Butt implant fad is not a tiny implant. It’s not a woman who has always had a flat posterior getting a little bit of an implant put into her butt to make it a little bit rounder. These are implants that are quite possibly tripling the size of these already curvy women, resulting in a buttock that is very big and not in proportion to their body size. I must also clarify that I am in no way discriminating against women with larger butts (trust me I am not).
It was a week worth of us investigating this buttock phenomenon.

Week Two: A music video hit the media that was brought to us because of our constant topic from the week previous. It was a music video of the celebrity singer we had seen pictures of in the previous week. This video lyrics and content was completely about the size of her rump, not to mention she was twerking it and grinding it all over the place followed by a strip tease at the end. If you have seen even a glimpse of this video, you know exactly which one I am talking about. There are no words to describe how perverse in nature this video was/is. It was the kind of video that you start watching and after about 30 seconds you wanted to shut it off but the video got worse and worse as it went along, you just stared in disgust. As we showed our clients, we would watch their faces and it was a look of utter revolt for what was being broadcasted. BUT WAIT!!! Three days later another music video came out. Can you guess what it was about? Yep, FANNY’S! This one was of two women singing about their large booties and shaking and rubbing them together. I would suggest that quite possibly one or two of these women have also had implants in their bottoms as well. Maybe or maybe not but what was being thrown at you through media was big butts, big butts, and more big butts.
I said to Roxy (co-worker) that it was as though we were being desensitized and somewhat brainwashed. As if people in media land were promoting and telling us what is the ‘in thing’.
1. Big butts are in style and you must have one
2. This kind of sexually explicit content you are watching is now the new norm.

I have to quickly talk about point number 1. Have you ever seen movies that are based out of the 1950’s? The husband and the wife were not filmed sleeping in the same bed because that was too sexually suggestive… SLEEPING in same bed, not kissing or cuddling or anything else, just sleeping was too provocative for television. We all think that is absurd and prudish; there is nothing wrong with a couple lying in the same bed. However, slowly over time media has pushed the limits a little bit at a time to where we become so desensitized that two girls rubbing their butts
together on an easily seen music video has become the new norm. Might I point out who watches those music videos? Chances are it’s not your average adult that is turning on MTV or Much Music; it’s our teenagers, our children. THIS IS THEIR NORMAL. THIS SCARES ME!!! That however is a different issue and a serious one but not the point I want to make today, it was just food for thought that I thought I would throw in.

Now on to the next week…

Week Three: We are beginning to notice more songs that are playing on the radio that are discussing booties. Do you think this is a coincidence? I don’t! Some are about loving your body, which is good, and some are just plain about the bigger the Gluteus Maximus the better, either way it’s about BUMS. The media is constantly bombarding us with the exact same message over and over again and I am not sure we are even noticing it. What else are we constantly hearing that we don’t even notice is a consistent message over and over again? And how much is our subconscious picking up before we believe it is true?

Week Four: I get dressed in the morning, look at myself in the mirror to do the quick once or twice over and I run up the stairs to my kitchen where my husband is standing. Without even thinking I say, “I think I want a bigger Butt!” He doesn’t reply, just shakes his head at me. I wasn’t testing him, I wasn’t joking, and it literally was suddenly a new desire of mine. You guys are flabbergasted right now aren’t you? It wasn’t until a few days later as I was thinking about a bigger Butt and how I liked the looks of it, that I arrested my thoughts. WHERE DID THIS COME FROM? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? I…me…Meghan, just weeks ago was grossed right out by this weird new fad had now suddenly found myself accepting the fad and desiring to be like that. Yes, it pains me to be this honest, but I am hoping that we can realize what power the media can hold.

I am all for women letting go of our body image issues and celebrating our bodies and feeling comfortable in our own skin and not feeling like we need to measure up to some supermodel we see in a magazine. I can almost bet you that if you asked ‘media land’ what their intent was with posting these booty shaking videos, they would respond with something like, “It’s about loving your curves, and your size and blah blah blah.” It’s not! It’s about women being sex objects. It’s telling our youth that unless you look a certain way (what the media tells you is acceptable) then you are not good enough. We went from Twig thin models (that when I was a teen I starved myself into an eating disorder to look like) to bigger girls with big booty’s, and now that is what we are told we are to strive to look like.

So now Big is in and all of us girls that have struggled with our weight say YAY!!! Suddenly we find ourselves wanting a bigger Back End, the same Back End we have worked years to get rid of when Big was not in.
Do you see? Now we still aren’t good enough and we never will be if we continuously let how we see ourselves and how we feel about ourselves be found in what the media says about us.
It’s a crazy sneaky thing. We don’t even realize that day after day of listening to music, watching TV, and whatever else we are being sent a message. Now imagine yourself a teenager… you can most likely take all those self-image feelings we have about ourselves and times that by ten. I would also say that it is much much worse now then it was when I was a kid. So much more media they have at their fingertips.

Maybe that’s why the Bible told us that we have to watch what we put in front of our eyes, what we let our ears listen to, and to guard our hearts. All these things shape our world and change our perspectives, sometimes without us even realizing it.

These are my long-winded thoughts for your today. Holy Moly that was a lot writing. I guess that’s what happens when you don’t write for a long time. Have a great week everyone… You were perfectly and wonderfully made!!!

This post is dedicated to my sister who is a constant encouragement to me… thank you for your inspiration and encouragment. I love you!