Personally, I was looking for the “hell no” option but it didn’t exist :(

This is an angle I never thought about regarding thinness but it makes total sense.

I mean...right?! I did try to stress that I know it’s not all white women and that black culture has it’s own issues with food from a different angle. Beyond that I can’t figure out how else I was supposed to ask the question.

I hope you get to that place where you KNOW that however you are is good :)

That’s true and I cannot really pinpoint where it comes from. I think to an extent, we’ve internalized a bit and pushed back to create ideals of our own that reflect what we see in our communities. And that’s not a bad idea. But, being non-inclusive of other body types is.

I hear you and I agree with all of it. That’s why I briefly mentioned food abuse and health issues that can and do plague our community.

Thank you for that. Seriously. Because while there relaxed standards of beauty in the black community vs the white community regarding body type/size, there is a whole ‘nother set of issues that we do face and I do agree that it’s not uniform from our culture as well.

That is crazy. I’m not exaggerating when I say that I did not know the idea of thinness ran that deep. I can honestly equate this issue with black issues of skin color/tone & hair texture. Obviously they have their own historical nuances, but the “aesthetic” issues masking more social, economic, political, etc beliefs…

I grew up around white people and I noticed thin = value, beauty, etc sentiment strong in high school. My body type wasn’t the white ideal and even I knew that but didn’t care. I had white friends I’d try to encourage, letting them know that they’re body was their body and it wasn’t a big deal if they weren’t “ideal”…

Totally.

Right! I cannot imagine my co-worker putting some shit like that up and me being like “good move” or even staying silent. WTF is going on in their workplace?

Yeah, either side of the extreme is ridiculous. Too repressed and it will come out one way or another. Too lax and you end up turning a blind eye to stuff you SHOULD be shutting down.

I mean, I might be. I just have noticed that there seems to be an immense self-pressure that SOME white women place on themselves to be thin. And I’ve never gotten the motives behind that mostly because I’ve never asked. So while I get that it’s not a case of ALL white women, I’ve noticed it enough to ask and want to…

Thank you for updating me. But STILL... I get it’s not the common area, but man. This is still disturbing as hell.

I know this might bring up comments, but I’m going to post anyway. Why is it that some white women (#notallwhitewomen) wholeheartedly believe that being as thin as possible is the ONLY way to be? I’m black and in our culture, curves are celebrated (and yes, health issues are real when people abuse food and end up with…

This seems really, extremely, sue-worthy unprofessional. I mean, you might work with people who are this obnoxious but the smart ones keep it to themselves. You might even work with those people who are openly stupid and say things that shouldn’t be said. But this hanging on the company break room fridge is beyond my…

So, wait...two years of water left? What is really going on? I haven’t kept up with any of this but I knew it was happening. I used to live in Cali but moved some years back for a number of reasons. Seems I may have gotten out just in time. Is that number a scare tactic projection or is that backed by some hard facts?

Biggie Smalls was always better than Tupac because Pac was a petty ass mofo who had little man syndrome.

:(

I live very close (like 15 mins away) as well. Just...wow.