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Ms. Dickerson is reacting to lyrics she doesn't explicitly quote, and I thought they might be helpful to the conversation:
I'm tired of magazines
Sayin' flat butts are the thing
Take the average black man and ask him that
She gotta pack much back
So, fellas! (Yeah!) Fellas! (Yeah!)
Has your girlfriend got the butt? (Hell yeah!)
Tell 'em to shake it! (Shake it!) Shake it! (Shake it!)
Shake that healthy butt!
Baby got back!
"Baby Got Back" -- Sir Mix-A-Lot
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In speaking specifically of one example's "diet" to get said back "[Buffie] eats nothing but junk food and sugary drinks, and she doesn't work out." Dickerson is pointing out that eating like that isn't "healthy" as suggested by the song. I think we can agree on that point. How one's body happens to carry fat isn't really the issue. A subculture making fat -- or any kind of unhealthy relationship to food for that matter -- a fetish is.
