Serena Williams. A thick, full-figured black woman.

Don’t act like you’ve never been asked that question before. And don’t get offended by what I may write.

DISCLAIMER — I love all women and have dated those who fit on both sides (according to some folks’ opinions). I’m just making a point about how this thick/fat categorization is killing us from the inside. All I’m trying to do is for once, maybe not for all – CLARIFY between the two.

“Real women have curves.”

I’ve seen the play & the film and the lead character played by America Ferrera (TV’s Ugly Betty) is a shapely woman. Attractive.

But every woman who has a lot going on for her body wise can’t exactly fit that description.

How many times have you done this in your mind when you’ve seen a relatively obese woman in the club?

With the explosion of obesity in America, as black men we’ve skewered our lines in trying to even say nice things about those women our parents and forefathers would deem well, plump. I mean, I’ve called Oprah fat and any other woman who seriously look like she crossed the threshold of 200 pounds a little bit over the top in her weight. But, let me decipher this for you – just because a woman happens to have a nice set of breasts but she’s five foot three inches and has legs the size of two steroid Churches’ Chicken drumsticks doesn’t make her thick.

Thick is what we describe as those women who are blessed with insane proportions – the high breast/hip ratio compared to a relatively small torso. I give the title to those women who have maintained a small stomach yet look straight out the Amazon or some how resemble Jessica Rabbit. What some people need to realize, well besides putting down the fried chicken and other fattening foods is to look in the mirror.

This to me is thick.
This is fat.

Choice A starts off slim at the top, stays slim at the mid-section before you get to her ass. Which is big as all get out, plus the thighs. (and you say I don’t like chocolate chicks).

Choice B looks like vertical rolled pizza dough. Aside from breasts, what else is there to notice? Everything doesn’t proportion out, it just stays super obtuse.

Another example:

Exhibit A. Thick. Esther Baxter. Nuff’ said.

Exhibit B. Fat. Starr Jones before gastric bypass. WTF.

Thick means healthy and I mean an actual CURVED shape will determine whether or not you’re a blob of fat or a figure of thick in my book. Not healthy as in she’s had her three course meal of the day within the first fifteen minutes that she’s walking around awake.

Not to mention that according to some studies, over HALF of all African-American women are considered overweight. Even though I’m fully aware that this study was probably done on a slight, it still doesn’t make up for the fact that we have way too many cases of strokes, heart disease & diabeties running around in our culture.

For example, a lot of weight on a short woman = fat. I’m sorry but there’s always a point where just being too big for your frame needs to be addressed. You want to know why some guys will just tell a girl she’s thick when he knows damn well in his mind that this is a big broad and he need not be fucking around with her? To be nice.

It’s cute when you see a woman who is around my height or maybe smaller and she has very large breasts and instantly people call her fat. Not true. There are some disproportions that just make the argument a little skewered because if you’ve ever seen Cherokee from the front, you’d think she is wide from the front – when in actuality, it’s her ass that makes her seem that way.

Believe me, the fact that men have just accepted this lifestyle of just feeding their women and letting them go is absurd. Wake the hell up. When black men decide to let go of their militant stance on life – they won’t find a black woman in sight. Instead, they’ll find the Becky’s and Mary Beth’s of the world who constantly are hitting the gym to be toned up. Realize that your health and eating choices have fucked it up for a lot of people out there.

They say that black men love their women big. That generalization isn’t true. We love our women either petite or voluptuous. This isn’t like we force feed them or anything, it’s also a show of how far eating goes – and how far society weighs in, no pun intended on what we do.

I think I can make the statement that all men would take Thandie Newton’s character over Lucretia from Norbit. Oh, have you forgotten?

A woman who is 5’5, 115 pounds will be gawked at more than the woman who is 5’5 and 180. Unless that 180 is proportioned between her ass and her breasts and stayed far the hell away from her waist and arms, which I sadly doubt. The thing about women happens to be that they go through strange transformations when they eat or start getting lazy. I give props to all women who find themselves going to the gym, or walking, or hitting up any form of exercise and being active.

Going to the club is not being active. Dancing to three songs will only do so much. I’d have a whole ‘nother rant about the club but that’s for a different post. Just hitting the buffet and not doing anything about it a few days later is damn near trying to just clog your arteries without facing the repercussions.

We’ve accepted to sit around and bullshit with our health far enough. Remember what we used to call the Booty-Dew a few years ago? “Her stomach stick out farther than her booty do”. Stop it.

Again, I love all women and this is not a diss to the women who society would consider fat. It’s more of a wake up call than anything. I didn’t post this for shock value, I posted it purely to make a clarification.

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