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- From: beartwo@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Audrey Davis)
- Subject: Re: Appreciation of the big & beautiful woman
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.233013.25101@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
- References: <1992Oct28.201756.1@sscvx1.ssc.gov> <1992Oct29.235741.1286@netcom.com> <95479@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:30:13 GMT
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- In article <95479@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
- >In article <1992Oct29.235741.1286@netcom.com> avery@netcom.com (Avery Ray Colter) writes:
- >>
- >>> I thought you enchanced women would appreciate knowing of that some
- >>>"average"
- >>>weight men (of which I'm party to) find your opulence very attractive.
- >>
- >>Seriously, while we still have our enemies out there, and the campaign
- >>of size-acceptance is not over yet, to find large women attractive is
- >>not such a renegade thing as it seemed to be a decade ago, when our
- >>very existence was constantly brought into question.
- >
- >
- >I think we should all move to Africa or India. I've lived in both (well,
- >took an extended trip to India), and big is definitely beautiful. It's
- >pretty funny how different standards of beauty are there. When I lived in
- >Africa, I got somewhat sick and lost weight. Complete strangers would
- >walk up to me on the street and ask: "How much do you weigh?" (not
- >considered a rude question there) I would tell them, and they'd think for
- >a minute and say "Should be 10 (20, etc.) pounds more."
- >
- >It was funny, too, to watch the American men that I traveled with slowly
- >change their opinions of beauty. I remember, after about six months, one
- >Am. guy saying to me, "How much weight have you lost, anyway? Why do
- >American women want to be so thin?"
- >
- >When I traveled in India, I got far more attention than I wanted. When I
- >would be sitting in a restaurant, men at other tables would send me
- >flowers and their cards; one sent an emissary over to ask me for a date on
- >his behalf. When I talked with other western women traveling in India
- >(thin, attractive women), they said they didn't have these problems at
- >all. It gradually occurred to me that my size was considered very
- >attractive to these guys. Wild.
- >
- >It has really helped me to start debunking the myth of a beauty standard.
- >If I do lose weight now, it will be -- I think -- for healthy, good
- >reasons and not to attain some arbitrary "ideal" I used to believe in.
- >
- >For good fiction that contains big, beautiful female characters, try
- >reading Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo trilogy: "Palace Walk," "Palace of
- >Desire," and "Sugar Street." It takes place in Egypt in the 20s and 30s,
- >and the sexy women are all REAL large. Very heartening.
- >
- >
- >
- >--
- >The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world --
- >if only from time to time. -- Annie Dillard, "An American Childhood"
- >--------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Lauren Crawford // crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu
-
- Lauren --
-
- I noticed the same thing when I was in Puerto Rico. I wear anything from
- size 9 to 12, depending on how it's cut. I felt self conscious in my (one
- piece) bathing suit, but all the men (my husband included :-)!) kept
- staring at me. It took me awhile to realize why.
-
- Audrey Davis
-
-