Sir Mix-A-Lot Defends Blake Lively’s Instagram Post, And It’s A Thing Of Beauty…

So by now, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the latest thing social justice PC warriors are pissed off about is Blake Lively having a bangin’ body, Instagramming a picture of said bangin’ body, and then captioning it with “LA Face with an Oakland booty…”

Which is, as most of us also know (especially if you’re a child of the 80s), a lyric from the iconic Sir Mix-A-Lot song “Baby Got Back.”

People went batsh*t over the caption, saying it was “cultural appropriation.”  Because apparently, white women aren’t supposed to have voluptuous, pregnant bodies and/or booties.  Or take pictures of them.  Or talk about them in any way.  Or celebrate them in any way.

Silly Beckies.  Haven’t you read the rule book?  (It changes by the hour, in case you were wondering.)

Sir Mix-A-Lot has now chimed in and is defending Blake Lively, and I love it so much it HURTS, y’all.

The 52-year-old musician told Pret-a-Reporter that he felt the actress’ reference showed the standards of beauty were changing rather than being yet another instance of white privilege and appropriation of black culture.

 

Sir Mix-a-Lot said he was surprised by the controversy and said, like his song, it was not about race as much as it was about celebrating different body types.

‘For her to look at her butt and that little waist and to say ”L.A. face with an Oakland booty,” doesn’t that mean that the norm has changed, that the beautiful people have accepted our idea of beautiful? That’s the way I took it.

He continued: ‘Now let me do this, as far as the critics are concerned: I don’t want to come off like, ”Oh, he’s an Uncle Tom,” because I’m not.

‘If what Blake Lively meant by that comment was, ”Oh my goodness, I’ve gained weight, I look horrible,” if that’s what she meant – and I doubt that she did – then I’m with the critics.

‘But no one in the world is gonna tell me that a woman that wears that dress is thinking that she’s fat. No, I’m sorry, it just doesn’t happen. It sounds like to me like she was giving the line props.

Yep.  She was absolutely giving that line props, looking like a goddess in that dress.

Now if the social justice warriors will please stop being offended for two freaking seconds, we have some every-girl butt-celebrating to do.

For crying out loud.