Yet another bonbon eating dis-satisfied AW reporter that knows what's best

[LatinSwede]

Is it just me, or does every obese woman (in the USA) here have a pack of guys chasing them down for dates? It's like a modern day twisted version of Leonardo DiVinci's Italy.  Weren't corpulent women considered an obect of desire back then?  I'd rather pass, for a nice physically fit dyevoshka.

Last summer I used to tease the Russian girls here for the summer.  Since they really liked to eat I'd say, "now you're going to look like a real American woman".  Then I'd gesture with my hands like an inflating balloon.  They'd laugh and say "no thank you".

[SANDRO43]

It's like a modern day twisted version of Leonardo DA Vinci's Italy. Weren't corpulent women considered an obJect of desire back then?

Not really. Leonardo (b. 1452) and his contemporary Renaissance painters (e.g. Botticelli, b. 1445), went for lither types, influenced as they were by concepts of amor cortese and Platonic ideals.

[LatinSwede]

Again you've corrected me!  Now I realize that I fell for angry feminist propaganda designed to give American woman a license to eat like hogs, and feel better about themselves being overweight.

[TexasBoar]

Is it just me, or does every obese woman (in the USA) here have a pack of guys chasing them down for dates?

I tried the forum for Texas on that "Plenty of Fish" site not long ago, hoping to find someone at least remotely suitable a little closer to home than halfway around the world . . . about my first week there, a guy in Houston posted asking why all the single women in his city were so freakin' FAT.

Oh, man.  Y'all should've seen the shitstorm that ensued---500 lb. "flour and wet spot" types castigating him up one side and down the other for not finding flab attractive, pathetically desperate guys schmoozing about how "beauty comes in all sizes" and they weren't like HIM . . . on and on and on.  Think it went for about 14 pages before I realized what my odds were of finding anyone remotely close to HWP there, and deleted my account. 

~Boar

[groovlstk]

When I worked in publishing, one of our female execs had a boyfriend who was a "chubby chaser." The exec was a wonderful woman, very smart, kind, but she had some heft to her. To each his own. Her boyfriend had been on various white trash daytime talk shows, and had written a book about why obese women were more desirable than slim women. He was a complete jackass (and not because of his preference for big women), but in a way I envied him: he was truly attracted to fat women and as such the world (or at least the US) was his oyster!

Funny enough, evidently not all women who use freepersonals.ru are FSU women. A few years ago, I got an introductory letter from a woman who described herself as a BBW. I had no idea what it meant, I figured she had some sort of syndrome or disease, and I was too polite to ask her to explain. Only later did I do a search and find out what the acronym stood for 

[TexasBoar]

Can an acronym be an oxymoron? 

I just can't go there.  Few years back, I met a wonderful gal---educational consultant for my district---who was just great, except for her size.  Terrific personality, pretty face, swell crowd of friends, sociable, fun, good taste, compatible interests, whole nine yards.  But ye gods, she must've weighed well over 300 pounds.  Tall and big-boned in addition to the extra poundage. I tried to get past it, because she really WAS a quality lady otherwise and I liked her a lot, but I just couldn't do it. 

~Boar

[SANDRO43]

Now I realize that I fell for angry feminist propaganda designed to give American woman a license to eat like hogs, and feel better about themselves being overweight.

After Michelangelo (the original Buonarroti one, b. 1475 ), really a sculptor who was forced to paint by clients like Pope Julius II and put muscles in his frescoes, abundant flesh began to be depicted by Flemish painters like Van Dyck (b. 1599, see his portrait of Doña Polyxena Spinola Guzman de Leganés).

You should suggest to your angry feminists to use Fernando Botero as a more appropriate ideal painter .