i don’t know why i decided to read tess holiday’s fb post where she attempts to apologize for a racist joke she made in a recent interview but i did



i honestly haven’t been gassed up about the implications of tess holiday for the fat positivity movement since it was announced she was going to be the first size 22 model

call me bored and apathetic to it if you will

but seeing folks on social media dissect her comment for its embedded racism and her attempt at an apology got me curious

from the original article

“At one point, an African American guy, middle-aged, said something appreciative as he walked by. “What do guys think they’ll achieve by yelling something?” she asked, shifting her weight and adjusting the cape primly. “They’re like: ‘She’ll love this, I’ll definitely get her number.’” A pause, and then she added, with some satisfaction, “I do admit that black men love me. I always forget that, and then I come to a black neighbourhood and I remember.” (source)



honestly, i’m not sure why white women in the fat positivity community subscribe to the myth that black men like bigger women

white women getting cat called or any sort of attention from black men is not a sign that it would be reciprocated towards fat black women



if white women who believe in the “black men like bigger women” myth stuck around long enough to see how black men treat fat black women

chile……



i know its hard for white women in the fat positivity movement to believe, but fatphobia is instrumental to black men’s misogynoir against black women



consider the amount of denigrating memes, fat jokes in standup comedy, punch lines in black sitcoms, or black male characters in predominately white sitcoms

the mammyfied fat black women characters in black sitcoms and movies, often played by black male comedians in drag



like if white women spent more than the 5 minutes a black man hits on them to understand how bodies, attractiveness, aesthetics, and size are operative within the black community..



they would be singing a different tune about this whole “black men love bigger women”/“the black community is okay with fat people” ish

