Supplemental Post - Sabrina Sonner

In Beltrán’s article, she explores the empowerment and exploitation surround Lopez’s star image and the way that Lopez’ butt indicates of both this history of hyper-sexualizing nonwhite women and a Latina cultural heritage of diverse body types. Beltrán references Dyer a few times in her article, which makes sense since her exploration of Lopez’s star image relates to what we talked about earlier in the semester about the contradictions present within star images. One interesting thing about the way that this article presented Lopez is the way that Lopez’s own commentary on her image was included in the discussion of her image. She seemed actively aware of the contexts in which she was appearing. The article ultimately concluded with her focusing on the positive aspects of her image rather than the negative, which I thought was a nice thing to focus on, though I did wonder if part of her acceptance of this image was out of the necessity of her star image not being too challenging to the mainstream.