{"id":561,"date":"2014-09-30T13:01:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T20:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauragrey.com\/?p=561"},"modified":"2014-11-20T01:29:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T09:29:29","slug":"561","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"The Bottom Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7PCkvCPvDXk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Meghan Trainor has been making a lot of money lately, but she&#8217;s also been getting flack for her big hit &#8220;All About that Bass,&#8221; with some reason. The ultra-catchy song and its cute, candy-colored video celebrate women with curves and encourage women to appreciate whatever bodies they have, saying &#8220;Every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top.&#8221; So far, so good. But the song also puts down &#8220;skinny bitches&#8221; and tells women and girls with a more prominent bass li<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ne to feel good about themselves because &#8220;boys like a little more booty,&#8221; as if their value comes from being ogled by men. So, sadly, the supposed song of empowerment still encourages feelings of competition between women and buys into finding one&#8217;s value in another&#8217;s gaze. I like it when pop culture moves in the direction of acknowledging beauty in all its forms, and I think it&#8217;s great that we&#8217;re gaining a greater diversity of cultures under one national roof with the rise of populations of people who don&#8217;t value bony booties as much as white folks have tended to do over the past fifty years. It&#8217;s great when standards of beauty rise beyond size 2 booty shorts. Songs of praise for bountiful bums are all over the radio right now, and more power to the big-bootied among us. But let&#8217;s not turn right around and shame slimmer folks or boil it all down to women&#8217;s value coming from body parts and man-pleasing. It&#8217;s great to want to please others, but your worth doesn&#8217;t derive from the size of your thighs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Trainor has been making a lot of money lately, but she&#8217;s also been getting flack for her big hit &#8220;All About that Bass,&#8221; with some reason. The ultra-catchy song and its cute, candy-colored video celebrate women with curves and encourage women to appreciate whatever bodies they have, saying &#8220;Every inch of you is perfect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/?p=561\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Bottom Line<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[290,292,291,289],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}