You can learn a lot from Facebook. A lot of people my age don’t have any time for it, but I have found it to be fun and educational. I can see how friends are doing as far away as Paris and as close as Penn Hills. I can find out about events and see that Jay Z’s daughter, Blue Ivy, has the same exact dress as my boss’ daughter—that means that Jay Z and Beyoncé shop off the rack just like regular people.
Social media sites like Facebook make the world very small. You can see your friends having fun on vacation, witness a destination wedding that you could not attend and so much more. I also learn a lot from the posts of my many Facebook friends.
By now you have seen or heard about the pictures of Kim Kardashian—the rear end and front end photos. It seems like Kim and the photographer of these flicks are copying a picture of a Black woman from years ago.
The original shot is of a Black woman standing in front of a blue wall while she pops champagne into a glass placed on her rear end. And it’s from a book entitled, “Jungle Fever.” The Grio.com says first off, those of you declaring that these pictures are “history-making” need to chill out. There is nothing new or even original about this spread. Renowned French photographer Jean-Paul Goude just dug into his archives, pulled out some of his old favorites and recreated them with reality TV’s reigning It Girl.
Jean-Paul has been fascinated with women like Grace Jones since his youth. The son of a French engineer and an American-born dancer, he grew up in a Paris suburb. From the moment he saw West Side Story and the Alvin Ailey dance troupe, he found himself captivated by “ethnic minorities. I had jungle fever.” He now says, “Blacks are the premise of my work.”
What I find so amazing is that so many who have tried so hard to reduce the size of their hind parts now want to inflate it, it is all the rage to have a butt that is large and out of proportion. I don’t know if that is Kim’s natural born behind, but I’m sick of these women clamoring for what they did not want years ago, full lips, big butts and tan skin. One thing I’ve noticed is that clothes are made differently to accommodate women who have implants and now the clothes will accommodate the enlarged behinds. I’ve tried on gowns and noticed that the top of the dress is not in proportion to the size of the dress; many designers are assuming that women will have enhanced breasts.
Facebook is fascinating; it gives so much information from a site launched just 10 years ago. The website’s membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area and gradually most universities in Canada and the United States, corporations, and by September 2006, to everyone of age 13 and older with a valid email address.
(Email the columnist at debbienorrell@aol.com)
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