Personal preference: I don’t like anorexic looking women. A few extra pounds don’t bother me. Obesity does.
"Therefore, they decided to re-articulate racial categories, adding new characteristics, and one of the things that the colonists believed was that Black people were inherently more sensuous, that people love sex and they love food, and so the idea was that Black people had more venereal diseases, and that Black people were inherently obese, because they lack self-control. And of course, self-control and rationality, after the Enlightenment, were characteristics that were deemed integral to Whiteness."
Yeah ... don't think so.
Utterly ridiculous.
Sheer lunacy. Intended to please those that CBS’s advertisers want pleased.
What a media!
This is utter nonsense. Cheap, fattening foods have added guts to people. By-products of success.
Fine.
Let black women continue to have sh*tty diets, eat too much, not exercise. Let them lumber around, 30 percent plus overweight, with all the health problems caused by obesity.
I just don’t care anymore.
Abolitionists were white, protestants too.
Shed a lot of blood to help blacks.
You last heard the gratitude for that when?
Because white men do not like sweaty fat chicks?
They had the wherewithal to feed the porker as much as she wanted.
Utter nonsense. Being severely obese is deadly
As to So Cal need to fit an image that ain’t about color it’s about stupidity and pill pushing doctors
Covid19 is Raciss.
I challenge Ms. Hollander to view a photograph of any typical street scene in the America of 1977, and compare it with one of 2020 - with regards to the body type / "heaviness" of the pedestrians. The contrast is stunning.
Here in Germany, I can spot fellow Americans a quarter of a mile away on the street - because of their high Body-Mass Index.
Regards,
I think the author (Strings) has her brain strings too tight.
There are obese women in every race. Some is due to genetics, some to “food poverty” or “limited available foods” (whale blubber for example), or just bad eating habits.
Re “genetics”, let’s take the racial differences in “black” women across much of Africa. You have the more slender Masai, the Nilotic Nubians of the Nile River, the Congo pygmies, the Hottentotts with their extended buttocks (water storage in their very dry desert homeland), to Yorubas, Fulanis, Ibos, Housa, Zulu, Luo, Kikuyu, etc. throughout the continent.
European women also have some obesity traits, from the peasants of Eastern Europe to some Italians, Greeks, and Spaniards.
Genetic isolation plus environmental conditions (limited food sources such as face the Eskimos, Chuckchi reindeer herders of Siberia and related ones in Finland, Newfoundland, the Yak herdsmen of Mongolia, etc.) all can lead to survival obesity.
Rich foods in Western Europe, America, etc. add un-needed poundage while food poverty in Appalachia showed genetic extremes from obese to rail thin.
If Italian/Greek painters and sculpturers liked heavy women during one art period, and then slender ones in another, IT IS CALLED A TREND. For the liberal-left-minded illiterates, you can find a definition of “trend” in a dictionary, if you know what one is.
Characterization by weight can be racist as happened in many American newspapers, esp. in the South, for a long time, but then again, both the Nazis of Germany and the Communists of the Soviet Union (and pre-SU Russia), showed Jews with exaggerated facial features and physical postures.
Not everyone is nice to everyone else. We have to live with some of this being due to insecure and/or mentally ill people perpetuating stereotypes, but also to liberals as they describe conservatives in similarly psychotic words.
The world is a complicated place and so is humanity. The more we understand about the mechanisms that work in both the world and human beings, the better are our chances of trying to weaken the more harmful discrimination that takes place in most societies.
The chances of the Left ever understanding this “need” is best described in two words, pun intended - “Fat Chance!”
I deny fat phobia, and I deny it is rooted in Anti-blackness.
This would be funny if it wasn’t so lame. What about those monster cabooses white women are paying thousands for?
So now being obese and wanting to get healthy is racist. It’s official - there’s nothing a leftist can’t inject racism into!
I have been using the Weight Watchers app for two months now (doing great, thanks). In the groups where people post pictures, before & now, etc., there are PLENTY of black women in the process of getting healthy - and they look very happy and not oppressed.
By the way, I joined WW because radio talker Mike Gallagher has been referring to his now-50+ pound weight loss and he mentioned counting points, although he didn’t mention the name WW and said they weren’t a sponsor. A friend has also lost 40 pounds during lockdown with it, and she eats out almost every meal. The version I’m on is not restrictive at all, not like old WW!