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(09-24-2015, 08:22 PM)Awful Llama Wrote: Right.  "Fat" can have such a negative connotation that I don't blame anyone for not wanting be described as such.  Fat usually accompanies "lazy," or implies a lack of intelligence.  Not traits with which one wants to be associated.  

If a large woman wants to be referred to as "curvy," why should I insist on calling her anytheing else?  I guess I see it as simple respect.

I guess there was a similar phenomenon around "black" which resulted in the peculiar "African American" nomenclature, which I find problematic, but that is another story.

I guess I like the way Randy Newman dealt with it better. He was a short guy who wrote a song making fun of people who made fun of short people. But, he didn't call himself tall.

And if curvy is the new fat, then what are the women who actually are curvy going to call themselves? Hexagonal?

Part of this is I am kind of a language geek. And, I also hate seeing people being picked on and judged for superficial things, so I do sympathize with people who are hurt by others comments about their appearance. I don't like people being mean to fat women (or any women, or men, or children)   But it seems to me like the curvy train is on the wrong track.