"I am fed up with the little denial phrases they have too, you know? "Oh, I'm not fat. I'm husky." Yeah yeah yeah. "I'm portly." Ah, yeah yeah yeah. "I'm stout." Oh, okay okay. "I'm big-boned." You're big-assed, okay?! Dinosaurs are big-boned! Put the fork down!... And they keep finding more denial stuff. There's a doctor now (I'd like to see what size he is), a doctor in LA who came up with a theory that being fat is actually a virus. Ah, I guess I'm the asshole here, right? Because ever other virus we know of is a flesh-eating virus, right? The common cold, AIDS, cancer, but he found the one that makes you bigger. Okay, yeah yeah yeah. That's all that fat person in each family needs. Now we're at Thanksgiving with the fat person going, "Well, I'm not actually over-eating. OM NOM NOM NOM NOM. I'm trying to keep the virus at bay. OM NOM NOM NOM NOM."

Entertainment tab? Really?

/this thread could have legs on the main page
//fat, chunky legs

By contextualizing fatness within the African diaspora, she invites us to notice that the fat black woman can be a rounded opposite of the fit black slave

Has this women seen any of the early portrayls of black women in film? They were almost all fat. In some contracts with studios they had to stay fat.

Even if we were to pretend that weight was a conscious choice (it isn't) choosing to be "fat" fits with the stereotype of what we think of slavery for black women.

How did she get through that entire essay without mentioning Sir Mix once? I DON'T UNDERSTAND.

factoryconnection:
WTF is this?

Is she your one black friend?

downstairs: My lawyer husband is one

The fact that you needed to add that speaks volumes about your vapidness. And invalidates your entire article.

How does that speak of her vapidness. Even if it did, how could it possibly invalidate what she writes. Are you saying it's untrue?

It seems to me that she wrote that to show that her husband isn't someone who lacks education or wealth -- that is, it's not a matter of just poverty or lack of information, that it cuts across class lines.

How did you interpret it?

FTFA"A room full of thin affluent people applauding the idea of forcing fatties, many of whom are dark, poor and exhausted, to exercise appalls me"

Da Fark? Exercise is FREE! WTF does being poor have to do with it?

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DoBeDoBeDo: FTFA"A room full of thin affluent people applauding the idea of forcing fatties, many of whom are dark, poor and exhausted, to exercise appalls me"

Da Fark? Exercise is FREE! WTF does being poor have to do with it?

Anything that requires time is not free. If you're poor, you may be working so much there's no time for exercise or your brain is too fried. And your access to equipment is going to be limited or non-existent. And you certainly don't have the money to hire a personal trainer.

/not saying equipment and trainer are necessary, but they certainly help especially for those with little self motivation

FTFA"A room full of thin affluent people applauding the idea of forcing fatties, many of whom are dark, poor and exhausted, to exercise appalls me"

Da Fark? Exercise is FREE! WTF does being poor have to do with it?

Sorry but "hitting the gym" or exercising in the first place tends to be something that more affluent folks do. They have the money, the time and most importantly, those two things give them the inclination to do it.
When you're raised to think that life is one long struggle and that oh hey- just wait for the the check to come in the mail- would you go to the gym?

Fat women are prized in Africa. It's not exclusively a black American fascination.

CoonAce: Fat women people are prized in Africa. It's not exclusively a black American fascination.

fixed - at least for the part of central africa where I lived for almost two years. a standard polite greeting was 'you've gained weight!'.

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And names...damn you. Yes, fist. Angry. God. Hit etc etc.

darch: FTFA"A room full of thin affluent people applauding the idea of forcing fatties, many of whom are dark, poor and exhausted, to exercise appalls me"

Da Fark? Exercise is FREE! WTF does being poor have to do with it?

Sorry but "hitting the gym" or exercising in the first place tends to be something that more affluent folks do. They have the money, the time and most importantly, those two things give them the inclination to do it.
When you're raised to think that life is one long struggle and that oh hey- just wait for the the check to come in the mail- would you go to the gym?

Why would you NEED to go to the gym. Exercise = park in the back of the lot and walk farther to the store. WALK to the store if it's near by. Do any of 100 things you were taught in gym class while watching TV. Being active doesn't require a gym or money.

This biatch needs to stop taking back handed swipes at Memphis. I am a proud Memphian, and she can eat the fattest part of my fat white ass.

DoBeDoBeDo: Being active doesn't require a gym or money.

But it's a hell of a lot easier.

DoBeDoBeDo: Exercise = park in the back of the lot and walk farther to the store. WALK to the store if it's near by.

Just ignore all the crime that happens between your home and store. Maybe you'll get lucky and the drive by bullet will miss you.

darch: FTFA"A room full of thin affluent people applauding the idea of forcing fatties, many of whom are dark, poor and exhausted, to exercise appalls me"

Da Fark? Exercise is FREE! WTF does being poor have to do with it?

Sorry but "hitting the gym" or exercising in the first place tends to be something that more affluent folks do. They have the money, the time and most importantly, those two things give them the inclination to do it.
When you're raised to think that life is one long struggle and that oh hey- just wait for the the check to come in the mail- would you go to the gym?

bullshiat. i am broke, have been for a while and due to crippling medical bills, will be for a long time. i am in no way, shape of form fat. I run (free), watch what i eat and how much (cheaper than fast food) and attend a couple of community yoga classes a week ($6). poor is not a farking excuse to be fat.

I remember reading that even in ancient Rome bigger women were valued. Well even bigger people. It ment that because you were bigger you could afford to eat more therefore you were rich. So fat was a status symbol.

bullshiat. i am broke, have been for a while and due to crippling medical bills, will be for a long time. i am in no way, shape of form fat. I run (free), watch what i eat and how much (cheaper than fast food) and attend a couple of community yoga classes a week ($6). poor is not a farking excuse to be fat.

You're missing my point. Perhaps I wasn't clear. I wasn't justifying what the article talks about. I was simply pointing out what I believe to be a cultural/financial truism: poor folks tend to (not every single one, mind you) not place a ton of importance in exercising and/or nutrition. It's just the truth.

Then again, whenever I go to mall, I see that white america doesn't seem to place a lot of importance on those things either. Seems to me, most folks just like to eat and procreate. Fark ME these people have a lot of kids. Nothing else to do, I suppose.

downstairs: My lawyer husband is one

The fact that you needed to add that speaks volumes about your vapidness. And invalidates your entire article.

Dumb and histrionic is no way to go through life, son.

There's a difference between a voluptuous woman (Kardashian, Beyonce, Carey) and fat chicks. Black men prefer voluptuous women, not fat chicks.

Check it out..

Voluptuous


FAT


I always see the body type of the former is hip hop videos as the 'ideal' sexy chick. I never see the latter,

darch: FTFA"A room full of thin affluent people applauding the idea of forcing fatties, many of whom are dark, poor and exhausted, to exercise appalls me"

Da Fark? Exercise is FREE! WTF does being poor have to do with it?

Sorry but "hitting the gym" or exercising in the first place tends to be something that more affluent folks do. They have the money, the time and most importantly, those two things give them the inclination to do it.
When you're raised to think that life is one long struggle and that oh hey- just wait for the the check to come in the mail- would you go to the gym?

Newsflash: Middle to lower-middle class people can afford to go to the gym too, and not all black people are so poor that they can't even go to their local Y and apply for membership.

/black female
//NOT fat, even if I tried

guitardedx69

Read my newer post.

cletusnbrandine: bullshiat. i am broke, have been for a while and due to crippling medical bills, will be for a long time. i am in no way, shape of form fat. I run (free), watch what i eat and how much (cheaper than fast food) and attend a couple of community yoga classes a week ($6). poor is not a farking excuse to be fat

Those all take time committments, that poor people often don't have.

Awesome headline.

JohnBigBootay: fixed - at least for the part of central africa where I lived for almost two years. a standard polite greeting was 'you've gained weight!'.

I've heard that in some areas of the continent if a woman gets a little fat in a short amount of time it's a red flag that she might be on AIDS medication so men intentionally try to avoid particular hot fat/chubby women.

downstairs: Many lawyers lack education and wealth.

very true.

a friend of mine from law school would say this happened almost every time he was hitting on some lady

she'd ask what do you do? he'd say, I'm in law school. Oh, she'd say, that means you're very smart... obviously, he would say, you haven't met a lot of lawyers. then she would say, well, then you're going to be very rich... again, he would say, it's clear you haven't met a lot of lawyers.

/ he wasn't very successful at hitting on women

skepticultist: How did she get through that entire essay without mentioning Sir Mix once? I DON'T UNDERSTAND.

There aren't any fat chicks in that video. But Sir Mix did have it right - he wants an iddy biddy waist and a round thing in his face. The problem with black women trying to achieve this :



..is the same for white women trying to get these..



..you can't get there without getting fat everywhere else.

Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the song.

factoryconnection
Although coincidentally, one of my best friends has lost about 140 pounds recently and he happens to be black. Primary motivation: hot white women weren't interested in his fat ass. Whatever works, I figure.

Did he have 2 black parents?
Did they fark?

Where does the surprise part come in?
I'd be shocked if he happened to be Scandanavian.

downstairs: Many lawyers lack education

Wait, what?? I get that not all lawyers are geniuses, but they do need extensive education to become lawyers. Like, you know, law school. On top of undergrad. That's "education."

/IANAL

It's funny the article quotes Joe Tex because as I remember it he refused to bump no more with no big fat woman. Joe was a very talented but very conflicted man.

This fat guy went to Jamaica quite a few years ago and stayed with a friend way up in the hills - about an hour from Negril.
Women were after me left and right thinking I was rich since it took a lot of food to sustain my portly figure.
Unfortunately I had a girl friend at home and didn't have any of the brown sugar. Still kicking myself to this day.

The women there were all fit from walking up and down the steep hills - and probably from chasing fat white American men.

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Yes...this man has the right idea...

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ut I know many black women whose sane, handsome, successful husbands worry when their women start losing weight. My lawyer husband is one.

Attractive and successful you say?

I know a few scumbag lawyers, but are we really now arguing about whether or not lawyers are "educated?" We must not have had a good "your college degree is worthless" thread lately, so that everyone can brag about how they're better than everyone else. Someone must be going through withdrawal.

The woman was talking about how black men like fat women, including well-educated black men, like her husband, the lawyer.