About a week ago, a woman named Lauren said she was training with her sister at Compton Planet Fitness when she saw something so “distracting” that it taxed her “consciousness.” . Lauren paused her workout, took out her cell phone and started recording her. What shocked her to the core? Another woman’s surgically enlarged butt.
Lauren overlaid the video with text that read, “OK, BBL went too far…” and zoomed in on the Brazilian’s butt lift, writing, “Going too far.” She posted the video on TikTok with the caption, “🥶Yeah, keep my ass🤮 #bbl,” and it currently has more than 2.7 million views and more than 12 million views on Twitter.
The mysterious BBL woman later addressed the situation on her TikTok. Melissa, an influencer and creator of Only Fans, initially laughed off Lauren’s video, saying, “I think my watermelon leggings were a hit.” However, in a subsequent video, Melissa shared a more worrying observation (in Spanish). Not only was she the victim of cyberbullying, and now there are millions of strangers online making fun of her appearance, but Lauren’s videos focus on her butt. She said it was for a reason. , she considers the video to be sexual harassment.
Melissa also said that because she is an immigrant from Mexico, people don’t necessarily expect her to speak up for herself, but she speaks out on behalf of all women with BBL. “They want to let the world know that they still have the right to privacy.” She said she’s proud of her BBL, but that doesn’t mean anyone can videotape her without her consent. (It’s unfortunate that someone feels the need to say this, but it doesn’t surprise me.) Lauren then said, another The video says that if someone has a big butt like that, they obviously want attention and shouldn’t have any expectation of privacy. So she felt she had to say that if someone has a BBL, that person is clearly not aiming to be known for their intelligence. Melissa reported Lauren to Planet Her Fitness, Inc., and to Planet Her Fitness’s credit, they banned her from all of their locations as Melissa violated their zero-judgment policy. It was banned.
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The incident has understandably sparked a lot of debate, from body shaming to expectations of privacy to cyberbullying. Many noted that Lauren displayed her “loser attitude” by making fun of other women’s looks. In an era where she is a “girl’s girl”, it is not common sense to use her position to hate someone’s big butt.
And Lauren’s “view” becomes even more complicated when she hears criticism from other black women who point out that a large portion of Lauren’s page is devoted to over-emphasizing her mixed-race identity. Masu. A mixed-race, “light-skinned” black woman is more valuable than a woman with black parents or a darker-skinned woman.
Despite all of the above, Lauren has since quadrupled her stance that getting a BBL is bad and it’s better to embrace your “natural body.” In other of her TikToks, she brags about her three workouts a day, which doesn’t sound like someone who is comfortable embracing her #naturalbody .
It’s easy to dismiss Lauren as an influence-seeker, but her apparent public disdain for bodies like Melissa’s is a bizarrely modern twist on an outdated patriarchal stereotype. She thinks she has more substance and value because she pays $1,000 to workout. Her butt is worked out at the gym, but she doesn’t have it surgically enhanced. I doubt that people who take pleasure in making fun of other people’s plastic surgery are praising her cellulite, big belly, flat butt, and small breasts, but I digress.
Since February 1st, Lauren has posted over 13 TikToks in response to the backlash she has received. It’s not only posted on TikToks about Melissa, but also on TikToks where she records her workouts, shows off her more elaborate gym routines, and urges haters to donate $10,000. Either it’s a legal dispute or it’s silence. ”
In her most honest TikTok, Lauren confessed to her viewers what everyone already suspected: that the mere presence of another woman’s butt triggers her anxiety. She said: “With so many people out there, there’s nothing wrong with drawing attention to a woman who was exposing her butt in public and not caring about our feelings.”
As the body positivity movement continues to collide with the rise of BBL and debates about the etiquette of recording strangers in public, one thing becomes clear…None of these conversations are happening at Planet Fitness. This means that you will not be affected.
