I write posts about women, particularly beautiful ones or ones I admire for some other reason. Here are the ones that got the most hits in the summer of 2008 (I pick them, you rank them):
1. Toccara Jones (1981- ) is an American model. She placed eighth in “America’s Next Top Model” in the same season that Eva Pigford won. She got a spread in the all-black issue of Italian Vogue.
2. Angel Lola Luv (1986- ), born in Ethopian, she was one of the top video vixens in 2008. Many think that her booty-on-a-stick look is not natural.
3. Bria Myles (1984- ) is an American video vixen. I first saw her in Twista’s “Girl Tonight” (2005) and then in Kanye West’s “Brand New” (2005).
4. Esther Baxter (1984- ) was one of the top American video vixens in the middle 2000s. Best remembered for her appearance in Petey Pablo’s “Freek-A-Leek” (2004).
5. Vilayna Lasalle is an American swimsuit model and video vixen. Her face is perfect. From Texas.
6. Gabrielle Union (1972- ) is an American film actress. I will watch any film she appears in!
7. Melyssa Ford (1976- ) is a Canadian video vixen from the early 2000s with a body better than Marilyn Monroe.
8. Jill Marie Jones (1975- ) is an American actress. She starred in the television show “Girlfriends” and was once a cheerleader for the Dallas Cowboys. What lips!
9. Lizz Robbins (1974- ) is an American hip hop model. She was King magazine’s first Web girl of the year and was Jet magazine’s Beauty of the Week twice. Like Bria Myles, she has a sweet smile and a great body.
10. Eva Pigford (1984- ), also known as Eva Marcille, was the first black woman to win “America’s Next Top Model”. That was in season three in 2004 where she beat out both YaYa Da Costa and Toccara Jones.
11. Adriana Lima (1981- ) is a model from Salvador in Bahia, Brazil. One of the best paid models in the world.
12. Deelishis (1978- ) in 2006 became the winner of the second season of “Flavor of Love”.
13. Buffie the Body (1977- ) is an American video vixen, a sort of black Pamela Anderson, but instead of having big breasts, she has a big bottom: 36C-26-44.
14. Virgin Mary (000s) was the mother of Jesus Christ. She was the object of much art in the West from about the 1200s to the 1600s.
15. Dakore Egbuson (1978- ) is a Nigerian actress. What eyes!
16. Ildi Silva (1982- ) is a model and television actress in Brazil. She has brown skin and green eyes. She comes from the same city as Adriana Lima.
17. Kenya Moore (1971- ) was Miss USA in 1993, the second black woman to win it.
18. Adriana Bombom (1974- ) is a Carnival queen from Rio. She she was once one of Xuxa’s helpers. What a body!
19. Taís Araújo (1978- ) is a Brazilian television and film actress from Rio.
20. YaYa Da Costa (1982- ) is an American model. She came in second in 2004 on season three of Tyra Banks’s “America’s Next Top Model”. She beat Toccara Jones but lost to Eva Pigford.
Some of those who did not make it:
- Naomi Campbell
- Tyra Banks
- Vida Guerra
- Lauren London
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Kim Kardashian
- Condoleezza Rice
- Sanaa Lathan
See also:
- What Womanist Musings thinks of this post
- The most beautiful black women according to white people
- The most beautiful women according to me:
- video vixens
- thick black women
- big bottom girls
All beautiful women. Proof that demand is out there for good looking black women.
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I agree: there is far more demand for black beauty than is being met. The all-black Vogue shows that. This blog shows that.
That Toccara came in first says that the sort of black beauty being pushed by the mainstream (Halle, Beyonce) or even the black men’s magazines (Vida Guerra) both miss the mark: too thin and too light – in a word, too white.
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Wow, Toccara’s number 1? Cool. Too bad she seems so determined to lose all that weight. Has anyone seen pics of her recently?
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Abagond everytime I visit your blog you never fail to display sexism and male privilege. Please explain why you feel it is necessary to rank women? Of course you probably see this as complimentary but it is anything but. Does it not even occur to you for one minute to think of the attributes these women possess other than their physical bodies? Really seriously, privilege check once again.
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Renee needs a reality check, people will rate other people in their mind whether or not it’s politically correct or not!!! most men on meeting you probably do it as well! get a bloody grip you may not like it but that is how it is!!! male priveilege is not going away just because you don’t like it neither is sexism. We have worse opponents than abagond (sarah palin for example, her record on rape and women’s rights are scarier to me than a man expressing a non threatening opinion) for crying out loud get a hold of yourself, i have seen worse out there from men in the blogsphere!!
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I am glad to know I am not as bad as Sarah Palin!
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Renee:
This list is neither sexist nor a case of male privilege.
In most cases you can tell if something is wrong or unfair by turning it around. This case fails that test.
After all, if you wrote about your favourite hunks and then ranked them according to how many hits those posts got, I would not be one bit offended. Why should I? In fact, I would find it interesting – because of what it would tell me about women and what they like.
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Yes, it is.
Because men have never been sexually objectified to the same extent that women have.
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@angel- maybe that has something to do with how women view men.
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Good point.
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Renee gave her answer to my comment and this post in general (and others like it) on her own blog here:
http://www.womanist-musings.com/2008/10/being-black-male-does-not-give-you.html
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Chicnoir:
I don’t know of any hetero- or bisexual woman who doesn’t find a man’s physical attractiveness appealing. However in a historical sense, a woman’s worth has always been her physical appeal to men. It’s only been rather recently that women have been allowed the privilege to beyond our physical beauty to discover our strengths in other. As a matter of fact, posts like the OP’s and pictures like the one’s posted still show that, despite the strides women have made, our worth is stil being measured by our bodies instead of our brains.
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I see what you are all saying.
I’m guy who thinks the women above are very attractive. I don’t know, maybe that makes me a bad person.
But it seems to me that Abagond isn’t trying to be sexist, but simply putting up a list of women who got the most hits.
Does that make him a bad person? Honestly I don’t know. Maybe as men we are wrong. Maybe we shouldn’t appreciate a woman’s looks at all.
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@angel-if this was a blk tail type post I would understand but a random man commenting on women he finds attractive, no that big of a deal in my book. I’m st8 and I like to look and beautiful women so what does that say about me?
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To see a woman only as a piece of meat, only as a sex object, only as something to be used and thrown away – that is wrong. That is objectifying women in the true sense.
But that I should be shamed for saying a woman is beautiful – there is something just not right about that. Something small-minded and narrow; something that does not see the joy of living, something that hates life itself.
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what a list.
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