EarthWindFire82 of Memphis

I guess I'll speak as a Black fat woman. Lately, there have been several blogs and articles wondering how and why Black women love themselves as they are.  Why do we embrace our curves and rolls?  Why do we seem okay with our big asses and bellies?  It seems as if everyone wonders why we like the bodies we have, but don't want to change them.  The articles don't ever really deal with the actual problems in our community.  We get harped on for being big even though we have rampant diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol and cancer in our neighborhoods.  The outsiders and analysts assume that jacked up health conditions should serve as a catalyst for change.  But has it ever dawned on anyone that there's a reason why fearmongering hasn't worked?  Does anyone ever ask themselves "why aren't a lot of Black people able to eat better food or take better care of their health"? NO! Because those types of articles don't get readers.  Not as...

So, I was reading about Pauline Potter , the current Guinness World Record Holder for the World’s Fattest Woman. She stated that she submitted information in hopes of getting help. She stated that she’s aware she has a “sweet tooth” and possibly a “slow metabolism”. Pauline reached out to Oprah, Dr. Oz, and Dr. Phil in hopes of finding help in losing weight. What’s most disturbing about the article isn’t so much her weight being 632 pounds, but the comments of the people on Huffington Post & People Online. It really shows how people really feel about overweight people as a whole. Apparently, there’s no “slightly overweight” or “kinda fat” to people in society. Anyone who’s seen as fat gets the same treatment in public. A quick scan of the comments really disturbs me. Now, once I got beyond the typical online trolls and those with Internet Balls, I got the following ideas on what people think: *Fat people sit up all day and gorge. *Pauline shouldn’t ...