Is it an ASSet?

Ok, so the news du jour today was Kim K's buttock. Apparently it was to break the internet. As if we care, our eyes were violated by the sight of Kim pointing her buttock towards the camera. This for a magazine called Paper. It was all cover the internet and various news sources. Then Chelsea Handler took a selfie of her's and posted it on the internet. Wow, of the other news in the world we were graced with buttock comparisons. What does that say about our culture? We have just had some interesting elections this month, we should have concerns about how Congress and our President will get anything done. We have major health care challenges, we have had an Ebola scare, we are having issues in Broward regarding feeding the homeless, where a 90 year old volunteer is repeatedly arrested for feeding the homeless. Hey folks, we have some serious socio-political issues who cares what Kim's buttock looks like. Pretty sad that her current claim to fame is appearing "greased and oiled" in the front page of a magazine with her buttock sticking out. Insanity and or shallowness at it's best. There is the stupidity of it all and also the underlining misogyny of the over exposure of the female body. Women are in fact being maimed and are dying in their pursuit of the " perfect body". Women spend much of their income on beauty products and procedures that somehow they were socialized to belief they needed. For what again? It's interesting to look at current fashion for men and women. Men wear flip slops and cargo pants. Their weight and waistlines are rarely issues. There are even "belly flop" contests on cruise ships. Now for women, shorts have gotten shorter, heals are higher and weight is an issue as is cellulite. Add the clothes women are expected to wear and the messages sent to women and what do you have? Misogyny's dark, slick, undermining influence who's goal is to destroy women's self esteem and feelings of self worth. I guess I should include something about how to make this situation better since this is really pathetic. This also at a time when "plus size" models are a size 10 when in fact, the clothes they are modeling are for women sizes 20 plus. Again, insanity. None of this makes sense. So I think we women need to wake up and empower ourselves. We are not the size of any body part, we have heart and soul and we have a brain. We have purpose which is not to be eye candy or decoration.