they see fit. No man can tell a woman how to dress.
and how have women been celebrating this fact?
The famous ones have been parading around with
out their underoos. their boobs have been popping
out. Not strippers. Actresses and "musicians".
Their parading has caused some new words to
be created. sideboob, underbutt, camel toe. Science
thanks you.
And I thought Pussy Riot was pushing the
language thing.
checkit: The Guardian
From
underboob to bum slip: the new female body parts
A
guide to the body parts you didn't even know you had – all of which are the
subject of fevered online debate
Emine Saner
Monday 11 November 2013
13.05 GMT
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The
Venus de Milo rocking bum cleavage
The
Venus de Milo rocking butt cleavage. Photograph: Jean-Erick
Pasquier/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
Who
would have thought that despite the long history of the study of human anatomy,
new body parts are still being discovered every year? In medical schools around
the world, students are being given printouts from the Daily Mail's sidebar of
shame so that they can correctly identify parts such as the "side
bum" – a glaring omission from anatomy textbooks. Here, then, is a handy
guide to the bits you didn't even know you had.
Sideboob
Of
course, 2012 will be forever remembered as the sideboob's zenith (the year the
Huffington Post launched their dedicated sideboob page), but it is still going
strong. The origins of the sideboob – the area between armpit and ribcage – are
not officially recorded, but it is thought to date back as far as 2005 to an
episode of Family Guy, with Peter Griffin presenting his Sideboob Hour: "A
wonderful look back on all the partial nudity network television used to
offer." Since then, countless female celebrities have been accused of
"flaunting" (I believe this is the phrase) a sideboob. In an attempt
to take the sideboob seriously, last year the Huffington Post asked if it was
"the endgame of feminism". But no, it's mainly just for internet
pervs.
Underboob
The
bottom part of the breasts, exposed by an ill-fitting top – perhaps a jumper
that looks like it has been unravelled from the bottom up. According to Urban
Dictionary, there is even such a thing as an "underboob shirt",
though I don't think they're stocked by M&S. The underboob is not exactly
new – think of those cliched 1980s shots of women in chilly crop tops – but it
is enjoying a renaissance. The Mail has, this year alone, written 12 stories
about celebrities' underboobs, which is starting to look like a fixation – at
least once describing it as "serious underboob" (Miley Cyrus),
underlining the gravitas of this hitherto unconsidered body part. Fevered
debate is had online about sideboob v underboob – think of it as 2013's
contribution to the great battles of history. A cursory glance around the
internet reveals underboob might be winning.
Back
dimples
Also
known as dimples of Venus, these are the little indentations some people have
either side of their lower back (they're genetic). Still very much a niche
fascination that is bubbling under on Tumblr blogs at the moment, there has yet
to be a celebrity back dimple explosion. It will come.
Side
butt
"Side
butt is the new side boob," proclaimed New York magazine earlier this
year, using an array of pictures of celebrities, including Kate Winslet and
Jennifer Lopez, to prove it, all wearing dresses with transparent panels to
display varying amounts of flesh between the top of the (side) thigh and hip, and
around to the buttocks. Then last week, Gwyneth Paltrow appeared on the front
page of the Sun wearing a long white dress that exposed said area and was
crowned "Gwyn the side bum queen", surely her biggest achievement
since winning an Oscar. It's a look that announces: I am not wearing any pants
and I don't care.
Thigh
gap
It's
as if a cabal of misogynists got together and said: "We've done bingo
wings, we've done cankles; really, what's left in our ongoing attempt to make
women hate their bodies?" And then they came up with thigh gap, the part
of the body that nobody had ever thought about before, except maybe marathon
runners caught out by surprise chafing. And yet a deranged idea has apparently
become the new obsession: that when you stand with your feet together, there
should be a visible gap where your upper inner thighs do not meet.
Bum
slip
Alarming
news, again from the Mail, where it predicts the "side boob's days could
be numbered" in favour of the "bum slip". The bum slip is,
apparently, the fleshy underside of the buttock cheeks, made visible when
wearing very short shorts (Miley Cyrus), or a kind of leotard (Kate Moss). It
is also known as "underbutt". "Although the bum slip hasn't been
doing the rounds for long," writes the Mail, bringing to mind a kind of
giant arse with its own PR team, "it has made more regular appearances on
stage."
Butt
cleavage
You
know it already as the "builder's bum", but now, thanks to Heidi Klum
among others, the exposed arse crack has been legitimised as fashionable. At
last, a body trend everybody – man and woman – can join in with.
