Reply #13: I think it was Cameron [View All]

[ismnotwasm]

And I think you're right--I was actually in the back of my mind thinking about Halle Berry. There is no way she's get away with weight gain.

With black women, I was thinking more on the order of comedy films directed toward black audiences, I avoid them because I think many of them are flat out racist. I read movie reviews. On reflection, it's the same pattern, the thin beautiful woman gets hooked up with a buffoon. The larger women, who is never lead, plays a mother, a sister, a misfit. Real sizes aren't reflected. (And in the case of black women, real COLOR isn't reflected--women actors tend to be lighter skinned)

Interesting how I can't come up with very many movies with black or white women of size that aren't comedies now that I think of it.