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Blake Lively probably shouldn’t have made this butt joke on Instagram

What was she thinking?

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Lyz Lenz

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Blake Lively thought she was just having some fun when she posted two side-by-side pictures of herself on Instagram. One showed her front and the other showed her back as she walked the red carpet at Cannes.

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The caption, which reads, “L.A. face with an Oakland booty,” is a line from the Sir Mix-A-Lot song “Baby Got Back.”

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But the Internet is too woke for Lively’s shenanigans. Jezebel observed that the caption “touts a diametrical opposition: that Los Angeles can be equated to elegance and/or beauty (read: whiteness), and that Oakland is its foil (read: blackness).”

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Lively soon received opposing floods of criticism and support on Twitter.

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The Instagram controversy comes right after Lively defended Woody Allen against criticism from his son Ronan Farrow about his widely alleged history of sexual abuse.

“It’s very dangerous to factor in things you don’t know anything about,” Lively told the Los Angeles Times. “I could [only] know my experience. And my experience with Woody is he’s empowering to women.”

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The Internet didn’t particularly like those comments, either.

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We’ll be waiting to see whether Lively apologizes for her Instagram caption or doubles down on it.

 
The Daily Dot