Not Work Safe

I recently went on the South Beach diet. No, not because I’m a tubby bastard, I just wanted to lower my body fat percentage. I’m actually quite dashing

In my normal life I tend to count the number of fat people I see and try to calculate a percentage. Where I work, which is an office building, there are plenty of fat people given the sedentary nature of my job. Then I got to thinking… “Since America is getting fatter & fatter will society’s view of what is sexy change to?” Further explained and simplified, will America get over its obsessive fettish with skinny broads and will fat chicks suddenly be “in” (again)?

If someone wants to clue me in feel free, but I don’t know of any time when genuinely F-A-T people were considered the cat’s meow. I know in societies where food is scarce that being fat is a turn on because girdth implies that one has enough wealth to buy enough food to get fat with. But in our society, where food is so repulsively abundant, thin is in (for some anyways).

Back in the 40’s, 50’s & 60’s in this country voluptuous was in. Marily Monroe? Big ol’ booty and big ol’ titties. If ol’ Norma Jean was an actress today she’d look more like a skinny Renee Zelwegger than the big bootied freak that we know her as. Not surprisingly it was during this time in our history that food was viewed as a blessing rather than a curse because of it’s relative scarcity. The fast food industry had not been invented, chain grocers were not on every block. Food meant something!

Fast forward 40 years. Now skinny wenches are in. Food has now been transformed into something to be abhorred rather than something to be enjoyed. What is considered “fat” nowadays would be considered healthy by the standards of a few years back.

Now mind you, and I’m about to get racial here, it’s usually white folks that I notice who have a problem with “healthy women”. What a Latino or a black would consider to be sexy, e.g. a “thick” woman (thick being defined as well-fed, maybe clinically obese, but not what we’d call “sloppy fat”) I find that most white guys will consider fat. Living on the West Coast however, where cultures mix I have started to notice my white brothers coming around to our side of the “fence”. Not only that, but I’m sure every Negro and Latino has started to notice more than a fair share of white girls that now have what used to be known as a “black girl’s bootie”. Black women are terrified .

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