Hips and curves are now considered cool?

I have been reading other blogs and news reports over the past few days and shaking my head at the fact that some people in the mainstream media have declared being big and curvy is now cool. Stuff like this upsets me becuase it seems with the success of people like Queen Latifah and Jennifer Hudson it is now ok to be fat.

There have been big people in this country since day one and the fight for size acceptance has been raging for many decades. In the years that I have been blogging I have seen improvements but there is still a long way to go. The scars that have been inflicted on people of size are not going to go away after a declaration or two from people in the national media.

I am overjoyed that people of size are getting recognition for there talents, what I am not happy about is that the accolades come with riders such as “plus size actress, bigger comedian, large singer, full figured writer. Why can’t people of size in the national spotlight just be talented individuals.

As a fat black man who is a blogger, the success of my blog didn’t come because I was fat or because I was black. It has come from me writing on a daily basis and getting feedback from readers. I’m not cool because I am fat either. There are those that like me some that don’t and it has nothing at all to do with my size.

I honestly don’t think that there will be any dancing in the streets after the announcements by some smaller individuals that being fat is now cool. My size is not a fad that is a part of pop culture that will go out like last seasons colors.

I am hear to stay as is and those that don’t like it I guess they are going to be in a bad way knowing that when they wake up us fat folks are still doing the same things we have been doing for years without there approval.