Manifestations of Venus

[davemarc]

Jules writes:

"The Heroro women
were not beautiful by our standards. They had huge buttocks --
grotesque, really, to the modern Anglo-European eye -- and were probably
the inspiration for the fabled Callipygians, which meant the people with
beautiful buttocks. This is a problem that many modern black women have
just had to live with. Their inherited physical beauty is of another
time and another culture. Ashanti women (and men) had bodies like Roman
statues -- think of Muhammad Eli, only black as coal. The Masai were
tall and thin, our basketball stars. I think it is difficult for us to
realize how physically different the various African peoples were from
each other."

On an international list such as this one, it's often unclear what is meant
when a participant uses words like "our" and "us."  I, for one, do not wish
to be passively associated as agreeing with the remarks Jules makes in the
material quoted above.

davemarc