Blake Lively posted a photo to Instagram on Tuesday of her at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival with the caption “L.A. face with an Oakland booty”.
The caption is a lyric from Sir-Mix-a-Lot's '90s hit "Baby Got Back" and is essentially a way of saying that someone has a good face and a good figure.
Many found the line problematic coming from a straight, wealthy, white celebrity and they took to Twitter to vent their frustrations.
Another day, another rich white woman using WOC's bodies as a punchline and commodity. As if Blake Lively wasn't the worst already.
Wow I'm so disappointed in myself for liking Blake Lively. You can never trust the whites.
@thinkovision Also, LA is 47.5% Latin@ so "LA face" doesn't mean what Blake Lively thinks it means.
Earlier this week Lively made headlines when she told the L.A. Times that she believes Woody Allen is "empowering to women".
@blakelively instead of your Oakland booty tell us more about how Woody Allen empowers women and the abuse allegations are not your business
And this isn't the first time that Lively's been called out for being problematic. In 2012 she married Ryan Reynolds on an ex-slave plantation.
@blakelively you obviously use social media so maybe now you can tell us why you got married on a slave plantation
So, Blake, maybe it's time to step away from social media. This is all just a big mess.
