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

[HimmyHendrix]

my cousin fat, his mama fat

got a bunch of aunts fat

if you’re a millennial, that’s gen x they were already big

im talking about the greatest generation and the silent generation

 

[Maximus Rex]

if you’re a millennial, that’s gen x they were already big

im talking about the greatest generation and the silent generation

my aunties in their 70s

 

[tuckgod]

Nah we fat shame around here

 

[HimmyHendrix]

my aunties in their 70s

it’s also 2025. being in your 70s just means being born in the 50s, so those are boomers AKA young in the late 70s earlier 80s. im talking about the two gen’s before that

 

[Elle Driver]

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.

Everybody grandma is usually called big mama tho

 

[Gloxina]

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?

I was wondering if this conversation would make it here lol


Women are saying she was considered his mother because the main Black love interest in the film is a heavier, dark skinned woman, and the white (for the film’s sake “passing”) woman was thin and styled glamorously.

When you look at the promotional material featuring the couples Hailee looks sexy and they showcase the romance/passion between them, and the promos with Wunmi don’t show her posing/captured with MJB looking romantic, sultry, etc. Nothing romantic, sexy, etc about her character was displayed in the promos. It was centered around the white actress.

And yea, most Black ppl were indeed smaller back then so they’re questioning why the Black female lead (who is definitely a pretty woman) wasn’t more like, Pearline, for example.


That’s what I got from some of the online discourse.

Great films can still be critiqued, and art can be perceived and interpreted in so many different ways because different audiences will always walk away with something different.

Truthfully, I’m not even in the mood to discuss it, but the conversation has been getting louder online.



I’m happy for Coogler and proud of the cast. They broke a glass ceiling with this film.

 

[Ohene]

lol black women will do anything to normalize being overweight and neglecting the gym

My mom is currently fat
When i was born she wasn’t
She gradually got bigger between her 50s/70s

Family used to make fun of my brother for being fat growing up. Now he built like a middle linebacker/running back

Being fat is unacceptable unless you old or have a health issue

 

[Barlow]

The women in my family are big now that they’ve gotten old and had multiple kids, but no from their older pictures there were relatively thin

 

[HimmyHendrix]

I was wondering if this conversation would make it here lol


Women are saying she was considered his mother because the main Black love interest in the film is a heavier, dark skinned woman, and the white (for the film’s sake “passing”) woman was thin and styled glamorously.

When you look at the promotional material featuring the couples Hailee looks sexy and they showcase the romance/passion between them, and the promos with Wunmi don’t show her posing/captured with MJB looking romantic, sultry, etc. Nothing romantic, sexy, etc about her character was displayed in the promos. It was centered around the white actress.

And yea, most Black ppl were indeed smaller back then so they’re questioning why the Black female lead (who is definitely a pretty woman) wasn’t more like, Pearline, for example.


That’s what I got from some of the online discourse.

Great films can still be critiqued, and art can be perceived and interpreted in so many different ways because different audiences will always walk away with something different.

Truthfully, I’m not even in the mood to discuss it, but the conversation has been getting louder online.



I’m happy for Coogler and proud of the cast. They broke a glass ceiling with this film.

I was saying that. I feel Pearline was more the black beauty standard. Slim Brownskin and dark skin women with a nice lil bubble.

Can’t remember a time when women like Wunmi were the standard.

 

[pickles]

Who gives a fukk?

 

[Gloxina]

I was saying that. I feel Pearline was more the black beauty standard. Slim Brownskin and dark skin women with a nice lil bubble.

Can’t remember a time when women like Wunmi were the standard.

And it’s not about her necessarily being the standard because thicker women deserve to be shown as love interests (because that is reality for most women in this country), but I think it’s just the obvious differences that made women wonder if he was just showing that we are loved and desired in all forms, or was the point to highlight the “passing” woman and the Black man’s ability to be with that type of woman.

Ionno…Ionno…

 

[GreenGhxst]

I'm from the south

Almost every family member is overweight
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