Watching The Discussion Around Sinners Recently Had Me Thinking, Did yall have fat people in your families?

[HimmyHendrix]

I been seeing so many videos and think pieces with women saying that Annie played by the lovely Wunmi Mosaku represented the “average black woman” in the 1930s before the beauty standard we have of today. That bigger, “big boned” women the standard back then.

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and while she is beautiful that is a lie lol.

People saying that her character was being confused as a mother instead of a love interest because viewing through a modern lense, men don’t appreciate a bigger woman like men of the past

and that’s a lie

Black Americans and really black people in the West in general are as big as we ever been.

The average black woman in 1930 was around 126 pounds and the average black man was around 160. We just got fat VERY recently, with black men and women being at 198 and 187 respectfully.

Every time I look at my grandparents and great grands pictures from way back they were all so slim and fit

Why are they tryna gaslight us into believing that we as a people have no gotten way bigger.

Sharecropping + Farm Food + Southern Heat + Scheduled Meals doesn’t add up to be obesity.

Yall descend from some big mfs? or was your family slim?

 

[lowkey0z]

yeah i agree, that whole overweight/obese thing is a modern issue, folks back in the day were a lot slimmer on average

the fact that "fat shaming" is a thing in this generation says a lot about how much people have fallen off

 

[HimmyHendrix]

yeah i agree, that whole overweight/obese thing is a modern issue, folks back in the day were a lot slimmer on average

the fact that "fat shaming" is a thing in this generation says a lot about how much people have fallen off

i thought i was bugging. I’m like yeah man we were not fat people historically. at all.

not saying they didn’t exist but that damn sure wasn’t the standard or the average

 

[folasade]

Yes. Were they as big as what people consider now? No, but they were still considered fat.

 

[HimmyHendrix]

Yes. Were they as big as what people consider now? No, but they were still considered fat.

I don’t see that in my family tree big dog. Everybody up until the 70s, looks pretty skinny to me.

 

[folasade]

I don’t see that in my family tree big dog. Everybody up until the 70s, looks pretty skinny to me.

ok. My family tree is different.

 

[Lambent55]

They called my Grandpa's Mom (My Grandpa was born in 1920) Big Momma. If that answer your question.

But also, the standard for being "fat" back then was different that it is now.

 

[HimmyHendrix]

They called my Grandpa's Mom (My Grandpa was born in 1920) Big Momma. If that answer your question.

But also, the standard for being "fat" back then was different that it is now.

Putting on weight as you age and bear children is one thing, im talking about in their youth. I don’t see a lot of overweight young people from those eras

 

[Uachet]

"As seen in the ancient records, throughout history obesity was seen as a sign of wealth and high socioeconomic status. 1 , 2 Obesity was considered to be a sign of social privilege and health, especially among women."

Obesity from a sign of being rich to a disease of the new age: A historical review - PMC

Obesity has historically been seen as a sign of wealth and social privilege, as can be inferred from studying the ancient works. We aimed to report the causes, diagnostic approaches, and treatment among the authentic books of traditional Iranian ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

"The analysis found a robust association between wealth and midlife obesity as well as heterogeneity in the wealth-obesity association across gender, race, and measure of wealth. With the exception of Black men, net worth generally had a significant and inverse relationship with obesity. The net worth-obesity association was largest among women and was driven primarily by home value—in addition to savings and debt for Black women. Although home value was significant for White men, the components of wealth were generally unrelated to obesity among men."

Wealth and Obesity Among U.S. Adults Entering Midlife - PMC

This study examines the relationship between wealth and obesity among adults entering midlife and whether this relationship varies by gender, race, and measure of wealth. The data were obtained from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 ...

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So, in the past there was a direct relationship to propensity to be obese and how wealthy you were. During the 60s or so, that relationship became an inverse relationship.

 

[Peruvian Connect]

Fat people existed. If you were skinny they tried to "fatten" you up. Being "fat" was a sign of prosperity.

 

[OliviaTwist]

I wouldn’t call big bone-ness the standard back then but I don’t think it would have been very disqualifying.

Both sides of my family are from Mississippi and yes big mfs existed 90 years ago

 

[BlackAchilles]

A few but I get what you saying

 

[Maximus Rex]

my cousin fat, his mama fat

got a bunch of aunts fat

 

[#BOTHSIDES]

@Dont@Me be advocating the big back movement. Must be an agent.

Old pics of my family, most were slim…

But then again where did “big” mama come from? I’m sure it was related to her size tho

 

[HimmyHendrix]

@Dont@Me be advocating the big back movement. Must be an agent.

Old pics of my family, most were slim…

But then again where did “big” mama come from? I’m sure it was related to her size tho

big mama is granny, im talking about youth