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Does The Viral Howard Stern Buttaface Contest Prove We Needed Feminism In The Early 2000s?
A perturbing video hit the jackpot for X’s algorithmic formula for virality last week, ticking all of online discourse’s favorite boxes: lost culture, women’s bodies, a gaggle of men as caricatures of misogyny.
By Jaimee Marshall6 min read
Allow me to set the stage for you: a real, televised reverse-beauty contest, operating as a segment from The Howard Stern Radio Show, was hosted in Las Vegas in 2004, called “Miss Buttaface.”