Silly old Michael Buble has landed himself in trouble over an Instagram pic that his wife took. Whilst holidaying in Miami, he and his family went to get some food, and his wife decided to take a picture of him. In the background there is a young woman with rather a skimpy pair of shorts on, which the wife thought to include in the picture.
When Buble saw the pic of the young lady he thought it would be a great snap to post, and thereby share with all of his followers. Just in case they didn’t appreciate the young lady’s assets, he included hashtags such a ‘beautiful bum’ and ‘hungry shorts’ amongst others to draw attention to the ‘humps’ in question!
He thought no more about it until he started getting irate messages by people incensed that he ‘body-shamed’ this poor woman. He was accused of being a misogynist, who was disrespecting women. Others also asked him whether or not he had obtained permission from the woman to even take her photo.
Others were concerned that the young woman might have only been a minor. Michael Buble thought that the pic was a bit of ‘light-hearted’ fun and that is was complementary to the young lady concerned to post her backside all over Instagram!
Do you think Buble has made an ‘arse’ of himself, or is he just having a bit of harmless ‘cheeky’ fun!

I think it’s outrageous, really, and considering the sheer number of people who must have viewed the image, I bet she could have his cute butt in court next week.
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Yes she could, easily! It was pretty thoughtless of him to say the least!
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It might of been harmless fun, but this is the kind of ‘harmless fun’ that has young girls, teenagers and women worrying about their bodies. It’s just another case of men viewing women as objects.
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It was a really silly and insensitive thing to do. After all he was having a laugh at her expense!
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I have been thinking long and hard about this, and it’s bubbling into a long post that I am trying to cut to make readible 😛 What do you think?
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I think that he shouldn’t really have posted that pic, no matter that he thought it was funny. Especially if the girl is upset over it, or didn’t give him permission to do it.
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Oh no, has the girl come forward and complained? I hope she has not been identified 😦
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No I don’t think she complained as far as I know, but other people on Instagram took exception to it.
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Such an interesting debate, isn’t it? I can’t wait to see the reaction to my post 😛
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Let me know when you have done it, I shall be very interested in reading it 🙂
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Thank you! And I will! It’s probably going to go up on Thursday this week!
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Great, looking forward to it. 🙂
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OK I lied, there are two posts about it that are up 😛
http://www.saharsblog.com/gender-studies/some-thoughts-on-michael-buble-and-the-bum-part-1/
and
http://www.saharsblog.com/gender-studies/some-thoughts-on-michael-buble-and-the-bum-part-2/
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Great. I have checked them out and think you have made some valid points about whether or not we should shame Buble for him ‘shaming’ the young lady in the pic!
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We have created a shaming circle that seems to be just digging the hole deeper and deeper…
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Yes, exactly.
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Shame on the shaming circle? 😉
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I don’t like it.
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No, it is a stupid thing to do!
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he is the ass.
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Ha Ha! Yes he is ! 🙂
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Gobshite
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Isn’t he just?!
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I guess I’ll be the contrary voice, Edwina. I don’t know him at all and by the picture I’m not sure anyone can make out who that girl might be. But I think he was just having fun and without seeing her face what’s the harm. It seems to me that we have lost our sense of humor as a society. Now if her face was visible then all bets might be off. But people post all these photos of Walmart shoppers and no one takes exception to it. There are even websites dedicated to it where faces are visible and not a word is spoken. Here we have someone’s back with a silly comment and people are up in arms? How sad that we can’t have a little fun when the person isn’t even recognizable without everyone getting bent out of shape. Well, that should start a fury backlash….:)
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Hi George. Thanks so much for giving me your view on it. I agree that too much has been made of it, but I still think that he was silly for posting the pic in the first place. More so because he surely would have known the backlash that it would have caused. I have no idea whether or not the young lady has made any objections, but I know I would probably be cross if it were my bum being ridiculed by all and sundry (mind you I am twice the size of that young girl)!
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I understand.
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In think it was dumb… But I don’t think it was world newsworthy … I have to confess to being fed up with ” journalists” doing their ” research” on Social media sites.
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Ha Ha! It is pretty lazy of them! I agree that it should not have caused such a fuss, although he was a bloody idiot to have not realised that!
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Inappropriate! Since the invention of cameras on cell phones, it’s like people have taken leave of common sense.
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Yes, he took it too far!
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