>>22088 I think one of the things that bothers me about her - and this is going to seem cruel and I don't mean it to be - is that she has seized the mantle of fat sexuality for herself while being.... IMO, not anywhere close to an example of an attractive fat person.
We all can give examples of attractive fat women. The models whose images are shared on this board are just the tip of the iceberg. There are chubby, fat, and supersized women who are all absolute knockouts - the reason being that they largely adhere to the same standards of traditional beauty that thin women adhere to - proportion, symmetry, facial structure, etc. A beautiful women who gets fat is still a beautiful woman. I realize that's subjective, but also... C'mon.
Lizzo is not a beautiful woman. She does not have an attractive body shape, having nothing to do with her weight. Her face is not particularly unattractive but also not deserving of poetry.
And guess what: that's fine. She's a musical artist, not a model. But due to the fact that there are so few visible fat female public figures, and due to the brash sexuality of her music, she's managed to imprint as the public's idea of what a "sexy fat woman" looks like. And that's a shame, because all it does is confirm in the public's mind the idea that sexually empowered fat women are kinda fugly and unappealing.
Imagine if we got a truly gorgeous fat woman in the public eye. Minds would be blown. I think most people don't even think it's possible. They think Lizzo is the highest echelon of the "sexy fat woman" archetype, when everybody here knows she couldn't break into the bbw/ssbbw modeling game if she tried.
Then for those of us who are loud and proud about our love of fat girls, we have to deal with the obnoxious assumption that we must think Lizzo is hot.
I don't think Lizzo is necessary responsible for any of this, but I do think that she is doing some degree of harm to the culture simply by being a really poor public representation of what hot + fat look like.
