1. How do you classify your artifact? In what groups can you place your artifact? What connections can you make to other artifacts in the group?
Butt implants can be classified as a social norm, beauty enhancement, and/or plastic surgery.
2. Identify points of similarity between your artifact and others. Then identify points of difference with other artifacts. How is it similar? How is it different?
Similar points that can be identified with butt implants could be breast implants, botox, breast augmentation, tummy tucks, eyebrow lift, or a face lift.
3. What metaphors or analogies suit your artifact? (Explain if needed)
Butt implants are like life savers if you ever drown, or, they could be used as a money maker, or, they could be used as a shelf. ( There’s an old wives tale that you know you have a fat ass, if you can sit a glass on your butt.)
4. How is your artifact characterized? (How do people/media/groups characterize it?)
It is characterized by glorification. Media makes fun of them by comparing the butt to thigh ratio; or they call the people bootlicious, it seems as if normalized.
5. What cultural narratives govern your artifact?
If you have a bigger butt men will find you more attractive, or for women with real naturally big butts, people will automatically fake because of the size, or people might assume that you’re a stripper/prostitute/escort/or a negative connotation.
6. What assumptions, stereotypes, habits, social practices, and institutions frame your artifact?
Stereotypes could be ‘black women’ because they usually have bigger thighs, butts, etc. So if you are a black woman without a big butt, you might get surgery to fit in, and sometimes usually they’re ghetto or ratchet.
7. What doctrines or practices affect your artifact? (Or, what doctrines or practices you’re your artifact affect?) Political parties and platforms? Religious? Ideological? Which ones? Are there cultural “rules” and practices? Which?
Plastic surgeons having practices to be able to insert butt implants carefully as it can be a health hazard, 8; they aren’t performed properly. Many people go out of the country to get surgery done because it’s significantly a lot cheaper, however the surgery isn’t done properly and they have to have the surgery re-done it the states, because it affects their health.
8. How does your artifact affect culture? How does culture affect your artifact?
Butt implants affect culture by having fashion trends, lyrics, music, being impacted by butts it’s like a cool thing to have a big butt. Culture by having this trend of having a big butt, makes every one want to have a big butt, whether you have surgery or doing more squats.