[Sera]

You’re not imagining things. It’s a cultural difference (with exceptions) between black men and white men. The black community is more accepting – indeed celebratory – of rounded women (remember ‘Baby Got Back’?), and there are lower incidences of eating disorders among black women as well. I know black men who even disdain women who fit the American definition of ‘slim.’ I think part of this is because American black women were not held up as fashionable and beautiful in the public eye until well into the 1980s. Being ignored as a target market has its good and bad points, among them not feeling a relentless pressure to conform to difficult standards. No women who look like you in ’50s girdle ads? ’60s diet ads? ’70s and ’80s underwear ads? A neglectful kind of freedom, that invisibility. Black women went about their business normally, and black men basically said, ‘Alright by me.’ It’s become rather culturally ingrained. Meanwhile, white men have had ‘skinny’ shoved in their faces so long that they’re ashamed to deviate from what’s expected of them (supermodels), even if they want to.

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Name : Sera, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 27, City : Seattle, State : WA, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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