Spike Calls Salma Hayek & Liv Tyler “Butterbodies”
Posted by: Amelia McDonell-Parry
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12:00PM, Saturday January 17th 2009
We’re pretty used to men’s magazines and media outlets celebrating the world’s most beautiful women—from Maxim‘s Hot 100 to AskMen.com’s upcoming Top 99 Most Desirable Women—but Spike.com has decided to go with a much more negative approach. In “The Top 7 Butterbodies,” everyone from Mandy Moore to America Ferrera to Salma FREAKING Hayek is called out for having “a beautiful face but a body that’s gone to butter.” I’m so effing serious. More, after the jump…
For example:
“Drew Barrymore’s weight fluctuates like a yo-yo…[she] can look super hot or super plump and blubbery…As a bonafide star, Drew cannot do this. Otherwise every hot woman in Hollywood will adopt a similar mentality and the world will be void of super thin, super hot women.”
To enrage you further:
“Salma Hayek has a beer gut, which she tries to hide by wearing flowing dresses. She fools no one with this trickery. This lady is fat. It’s like she’s carrying a spare car tire around her mid-section. Her only saving grace is her magnificent breasts.”
And if your head hasn’t exploded yet:
“Hollywood is about being extraordinary, not ordinary. It’s crazy that [American Ferrera] has become a poster child for “curvy” women. She basically gives women an excuse to be fat.”
Since when does being anything but a twig equal fat? According to the research I’ve done (reading Us Weekly, I mean) all of the women on Spike’s list work out and attend to their physical health more than most women AND MEN that I know. If the women who have been put on pedestals for being perfect—all the women on Spike’s list are celebrated beauties—are now not perfect enough, then those who aspire to reach perfection—an unhealthy pursuit, no doubt—are totally screwed. [Spike]
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Alex V
wrote on January 17 2009 @ 03:44 pm: [report]
Like anyone at Spike.com could actually get together with any of those ladies they’re dissing.
Lucky Red
wrote on January 17 2009 @ 03:54 pm: [report]
Rage. That is the most awful sh*t I have ever heard. Thanks for helping with the culture’s completely distorted view of women spike.com, now I should punch you in the balls.
ExGirlfriend
wrote on January 17 2009 @ 04:08 pm: [report]
Alex, I don’t think any of the guys at spike.com can get a woman period.
Hey, thanks spike.com for making me feel even worse about my body than I already do. high five!
Amelia
wrote on January 17 2009 @ 04:11 pm: [report]
@ExGirlfriend Don’t you dare let those tools make you feel ANYTHING other than disgust or whatever feeling resembles the one when you step on a piece of dog poo. Also, I suspect the boys at Spike know a thing or two about blubber—from personal experience.
thefamousames
wrote on January 17 2009 @ 04:45 pm: [report]
Ha. I’m sure those ladies are losing precious beauty sleep over this while counting their wads of cash and banging beautiful men.
yarngasm
wrote on January 17 2009 @ 05:29 pm: [report]
Where do those a**holes get off saying stuff like that? I hope they enjoy living in their parents’ basements, because with an attitude like that, they’ll never meet someone worthy and move out.
In the meantime, they can just be happy imagining their FleshLights to be bony twigs. Because I’m sure that feels amazing.
Lynn
wrote on January 17 2009 @ 05:41 pm: [report]
Didn’t Salma Hayek just have a baby? Do they know that a fetus is not a beer gut?
dirtyboots
wrote on January 17 2009 @ 07:16 pm: [report]
I’m so sure the men writing this are the poster boys of fitness and health themselves. If that’s what a “butterbody” is, then I wish I was a butterbody.
simona
wrote on January 17 2009 @ 07:42 pm: [report]
Why am I visualizing squat balding men writing these fine pieces of literature with Taco Bell wrappers strewn all about and a bit of mayo stuck in their beard (possibly the few strands of hair left?)?
Probably because it’s true. Let’s analyze one of their eloquent passages, shall we?
“As a bonafide star, Drew cannot do this. Otherwise every hot woman in Hollywood will adopt a similar mentality and the world will be void of super thin, super hot women.”
Drew CANNOT do this? Cannot do what, be a human being? SHAME, DREW BARRYMORE! Way to go, voiding our precious earth of beauty. Because of you, everything feels so ugly, so gray and drab.
It’s articles like that that really make me wish the 1st Amendment was a little more specific…
Michelle
wrote on January 17 2009 @ 08:47 pm: [report]
“Articles” like spike.com’s make my inner feminist want to find a knife and the basement where they’re hiding.
Brooklyn
wrote on January 17 2009 @ 09:24 pm: [report]
I think women all over the world should adopt the term “Butterbody” and use it when some sleaze in a bar tries to pick her up. Example:
Guy: Hey, I noticed you from across the room and wanted to come over and say hello.
Girl: You mean you noticed my butterbody? That’s right, my body is so smooth and tasty like butter you wish I would spread myself all over you.
Butterbody= smooth, sexy and fabulous. Viva Oleo!
fallenangel915
wrote on January 18 2009 @ 12:00 am: [report]
OMG, I can’t believe these pricks had the nerve to rag on Salma and America and Drew like that. Salma is absolutely gorgeous, as are the other “butterbodies” they mention in their so-called “article.” WTF kind of #&@$% is this? I’d rather look like them all put together than half the sickly needs-to-eat-a-big-mac so called celebs out there, anyway. F’ing ‘tards.
SterlingSilver36
wrote on January 18 2009 @ 12:02 am: [report]
The only good thing about that article are the majority of comments, from both guys and gals. The overall feeling from all the comments [and I read *all* of them] were similar to how we all feel about that article.
LaGiulia
wrote on January 18 2009 @ 09:16 am: [report]
I don’t really feel the need to get worked up about this. It’s just so pathetic. No woman needs a seal of approval on her looks, least of all Salma Hayek, for God’s sake.
Alex V
wrote on January 18 2009 @ 09:17 am: [report]
MMMMMM…. butter…. drool…
Rose
wrote on January 18 2009 @ 10:17 am: [report]
I’m with Brooklyn and Alex V - butterbody sounds like a compliment to me. If some hot guy said “Rub your butterbody all over me, baby” I’d be there!
Chelle
wrote on January 18 2009 @ 11:13 am: [report]
LOL- “butterbody” is not a compliment (although it should be in this case). It means but-her-body, as in everything looks good but her body. Just like “butterface”- but-her-face, as in everything looks good but her face. How inconvenient that we can’t have special words like that for guys. Can anyone come up with one like that one for guys?
esoterica
wrote on January 18 2009 @ 01:12 pm: [report]
I would love to have a list of their sponsors for a boycott. This goes beyond Maxim’s usual garbage. This is straight up misogyny.
vanya
wrote on January 18 2009 @ 04:42 pm: [report]
Where are the photos of the authors?? Shall we compare?
diabadass
wrote on January 18 2009 @ 04:45 pm: [report]
Watch out Drew Barrymore. If you keep this up, women will adopt the mentality that it’s ok to have hips. Or tits. Or lunch. Gasp!
ExGirlfriend
wrote on January 18 2009 @ 06:12 pm: [report]
Chelle… there already is a word for guys like them… where I come from we call them ‘virgins’
toyen
wrote on January 18 2009 @ 11:55 pm: [report]
Yeah, the author doesn’t even have a photo, just the kid from Mad Max:
http://www.spike.com/profile/ncoles
But… Gotta love the internets!
http://tylercoates.tumblr.com/post/70717131/this-is-the-amateur-headshot-of-nick-coles-the
Here’s the asinine article in all its glory:
http://www.spike.com/blog/top-7-butterbodies/72506
lilo
wrote on January 19 2009 @ 07:59 am: [report]
Obviously, the boys at Spike are just trying to get some traffic—and probably trying to work through a little of that humiliating rejection from the high school days. You just have to laugh at their “controversial” Salma Hayak choice. I’d like to sport that kind of butter.
hopesprings
wrote on January 20 2009 @ 08:55 am: [report]
The other day, a short, nerdy, single (divorced) friend of mine went off on how Jennifer Love Hewitt has a big ass. I was stunned. I said, “Well, if you think her ass is big, then no wonder you’re single - most of the women around here will never measure up.” He blushed and said, “Well, it’s easy to talk down about the women who are totally unobtainable anyway.”
There you have it.
The problem is, the rest of us normal women are already comparing ourselves to perfection and not measuring up. So when we hear average (or, in most cases, ‘below average’) guys talking like these Spike jerks, it’s another nail in the coffin of our self-esteem.
Don’t buy it, ladies. I spent most of my prime years thinking I wasn’t good enough, based on a SEVENTEEN magazine my grandmother gave me when I was 13. Enjoy what you have. And Drew Barrymore - you are my idol. You are gorgeous and human too. What a great combination!
Humble Bee
wrote on January 20 2009 @ 05:13 pm: [report]
Heeeyy. Let’s just call the fatasses at Spike ButterBrains!
Cause they’re obviously missing theirs. All those women are gorgeous and extraordinary in a lot of ways.
hawaiianpeach
wrote on January 22 2009 @ 01:55 pm: [report]
This is just what Spike wants….attention. They are were the fat, acne ridden, no prom date having, social gnats in high school.They would trip over their blow up dolls to answer the door if any of these hotties came a knockin.
Tanyechka
wrote on February 20 2009 @ 05:02 am: [report]
My understanding is that most men prefer “intimacy” with a woman with curves. Otherwise, you are just holding onto bones, and what’s the fun in that?