Don't you just love the era of colonialism?

So france surrendered again?

I know it might be tacky - but can I see these buttocks?

It's not enlarged genitalia, it's FARK.com

Part of me says, "I want to see a picture". But then another part of me says, "Oh no you don't"

200 years? That's gotta be a "France Surrenders" record.

"She was also paraded before "a multitude of sages and painters""

Just got an urge to paint a 6" clit

Ouroborus - let me help you out:

OH NO, YOU DON'T.

Here's a farked up sculpture of her.



You'll just have to imagine pickled flesh of those proportions.

AAAAAAHHHHHH! I SURRENDER!

Eeeeewww...

THis article has a picture of what I assume is her body, as well as banners with breasts, so you probably shouldn't visit at work.

Africa always had certain alluring features about it, none more so than the allegedly monstrous genitalia of its inhabitants. Especially of interest was the enlarged labia minora and buttocks of the Hottentot women. Since their first sighting in the 17th century, this "Hottentot apron" had become the subject of countless books and articles, myths, fabrications, and unfounded speculation. By the 18th century this disputed topic had become a mania among natural scientists, and their perverted hunger for "the truth" was becoming desperate.

Enter one Alexander Dunlop, a ship surgeon in the early 19th Century who made extra money by exporting museum specimens from Africa. In 1810 he happened upon a 21-year-old Hottentot woman, gave her the Dutch name Saartjie Baartman (real name unknown), and shipped her off to Europe to be exhibited as the "Hottentot Venus." Upon her arrival she was treated with the same affection accorded to clueless visitors today, namely with heaps of derision and humiliation. According to one witness at a London showing, she was displayed "on a stage two feet high, along which she was led by her keeper, and exhibited like a wild beast, being obliged to walk, stand, or sit as he ordered her." One could view her "brutal figure" for two shillings, but for an extra charge, viewers could also poke and prod her buttocks, the main attraction.

Saartjie endured these exhibitions for about four years, before succumbing to an illness in 1815. Shortly after her demise, her body was dissected as an ethnological curiosity. Her body parts, including her genitalia and brain, are kept in the Muse de l'Homme in Paris.

there don't appear to be an "real" pictures of this creature(thank god) but here a bunch of people pretending to be the
Hotentott Venus

creature? and i suppose those long, shapeless, flat asses warrant beauty and attractiveness? gimme a break.

that there is the original boo-tay from the motherland.

HeavyBalls: That's the Booty ??? ewww...

Foodbunny: That pic reminds me of this...

Hottentot hottie, I say.

Oh my God, Becky. Look at her butt. It is so big. She looks like one of those rap guy's girlfriends. Who undestands those rap guys? They only talk to her because she looks like a total prostitute. I mean her butt, it's just so big. It's so round. It's just out there. Gross, look. She's just so... black.

Apparently, she was just a normal Koi-San woman. Slightly larger but than most Euro-blooded women, but nothing particularly hectic. And her genitals weren't that weird, just an outy, with less covering. In those days, it was just another excuse for men to sit around staring at women.
They did it with women who were "hysterical" too. Ie, very farking pissed off. Now they just pay them properly.

It's a sad story. I'm glad they're finally sending her remains back here where they belong. I'm not superstitious, but it's the principle of the thing for me.
(I mean, we don't keep French people's genitals in bottles here, though some would say it's the safest place to put them.)

I am also glad for the same reason I was glad when they finally said it was okay for us to look at white boobies too. For years, black boobies weren't considered sexual, but white boobies had to have stars over the nipples in magazines.

I'm from the same part of the world as she was, by the way.

Why not just ship them Rosie O'Donnel instead?

Much the same physique, and Rosie's still breathing (unfortunately).

LOL

Bonobo's got back! (And PICKLED back at that)

This is rather stupid, but this is a France thread, after all...

Marge Surrenders.

Artist's redention:

If this involves buttocks and genitalia it is most likely Clinton's fault.

an in-depth explanation with diagrams of boobies and genitalia

wtf is up with the link filters, anyway the link is here:
http://www.heretical.com/miscella/baker4.html

Baartman?

B0rg9: DAMN YOU!!! Oh well.

http://www.heretical.com/miscella/baker4.html
and the words "FEED ME Seymor!!" Come to mind
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwww

ewwwwwwww yuk!

Hottentot - what is the translation of this? Hot to trot?

You know what would also be really great?? It would be nice to give Joseph Cary Merrick, better known as the Elephant Man, a decent burial. As it is, his bones remain in a london hospital.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a group organized to accomplish this.

Classic Fark.

Billyblazer: Thanks, Dude, that's my new wallpaper for a while. Much obliged.

BenJammin - I think Hottentot means Stutterer/stammerer. When the Dutch arrived in S.A., they named the KhoiKhoi stutterers because of the clicks and other sounds in their language. Just another example of the sensitivity of colonial powers.These days, it seems to be more like an insult. Don't take my word for it though, i was only in S.A. for 2 weeks (nice pic of Table Mt., CleverBlonde!).

An image of the infamous Hottentot Venus:

Images including genitalia - kind of NSFW

I bet Jennifer Lopez is related to the pickled big ass.

word of the day:

steatopygia:   Anthropology. a condition in certain populations in which individuals have broad masses of fat protruding from the buttocks and thighs with an additional slant to the sacrum; often noted among women of the Bushmen and Hottentot groups of Africa.

....boobies?

She's got BACK!

Do the Baartman!!!

wow, that is really sad. I guess it is time for her to be treated like a human-being and be sent back home to be buried.

Standards of beauty are different from culture to culture and from generation to generation.