stephanie wrote:
> what pisses me off about the ugly/pretty thing, is how
> inflexible people's definitions of "beauty" can be. i
> was watching a gospel night at the apollo a few weeks
> ago and the power that came out of the women
> singing--slinky, satiny and sinewy to big, bold and
> brassy, was like a force of nature. (here we're also
> talking about the vibe the person radiates.) I get so
> much joy watching a BIG voice blast out of a BIG woman
> with a BIG smile and attitude.
That's also dependent on cultural standards of beauty. A 300lb black woman is
more accepted as beautiful than a 300lb white woman, a good deal of that
stretches back to certain African traditions where a larger woman is considered
to be more healthy and fertile, and thus more attractive, than a thin woman.
Also, in contemporary culture, there are more positive large black woman role
models than there are large white woman role models (i.e. Oprah was way more
respected than Roseanne (okay, bad examples, since none of them are obese
anymore)), and things like bulimia and anorexia are more seen as 'white woman' problems.
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