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Plus-Size Women Are Too Whiny!

By Alyssa Manners November 10, 2009 6:00 pm

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Complain, complain, complain. That’s all plus-size women do. It’s bad enough they want to share clubs with us, but they take up opportune shopping space in our stores and squeeze into the tightest seats on the bus. And aren’t there enough specialty stores, magazines, and even runways for them? They’ve got it all!

Will plus-size women ever stop complaining?

With all of the progression women of different sizes and shapes have made in the name of “self-confidence” and “self-love,” plus-size women have been stepping their game up and giving skinnier women a run for their money. Stores like Ashley Stewart and Manik Magazine cater to the “little more to love” crowd, and stores like Forever 21 have created lines like “Faith 21” with the size 12 and above in mind. But are they thankful? Of course not.

Why should people who are bigger have their own exclusive clothing and fashion shows instead of being of one accord with the general population?

Fat Acceptance Activists Push For Plus-Size Nightclubs

Why do you ask? Well, to put it simply, plus-size women are always the “butt” of jokes, (i.e., Mo’Nique, who uses jokes about herself as a defense mechanism), and don’t receive the same caliber of clothing, treatment, or respect as everyone else.

The average American woman is not a 6 or 8, but a 16! And yes, there are stores that satiate the “thicker than a snicker” fashionistas, they are so few and far between, that it’s hard to avoid looking like carbon copy. And the ratio of “big girl” stores to “slender” women’s boutiques are drastically low.

Yet stores insist on “dumbing down” styles like skinny jeans and leggings and slap the “plus-size” sticker across it and call it “plus-size fashion.” Think about the last time you went to store with a “plus-size” or “women’s” section. Notice how cute and fitted the “petite” section’s clothes are. How flattering and unique every garment is. Then step into the big girls’ area, typically all the way in the back of the store. The very store that carries the cutesy clothes for skinny women, offer bigger women “tent-inspired” garments with the nerve to make them in the same fabrics as the skinny stuff like they can’t tell the difference!

And there are no haute couture designers that make double digit sizes, except if they lines for H&M or Target. Otherwise, forget it!

Designer Says: “No One Wants To Look At Fat Women”

In fact, people like Chanel designer Karl Lagerfield, insist that

“Fat mummies sit there in front of the television with their chip packets and say skinny models are ugly.”

Very hypocritical Karl! We remember when you were a happy meal away from a heart attack!

Plus, nothing shows off clothing better than the “real curves” of a woman.

So are plus-size women, bitch, moan, and complaining a little too much? Maybe, but until the playing field is leveled, might as well invest in some ear plugs ’cause the fight will continue to wage on!

THICK VS. FAT: Aren’t They The Same???

MANIK MAG: The New Fashion Mecca For Plus Sized Women

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  • diamondoh36
    diamondoh36
    11-15-2009 1:02 pm

    you know i dnt understand why people think that they live in a world that revolves around people like them rather we are skinny, small ,big are tall we all are made up different even a child understands that where do people get this stuff because who ever you are you need to come out of la,la land and get real your not going to stop people frm being genetically made up the way,the Lord intended for them to be made and i love Ashley Stewart i shop there all the time she has something for all sizes honey when you speak know wat your talking about because that was a stupid comment and sometimes we have to learn keep things to ourselves… im a happy bbw and loving it….

  • sexymocha81
    sexymocha81
    11-15-2009 12:16 pm

    I agree with this like Mo’Nique say F**K SKINNY B***HES….yall skinny ass need to go eat some chicken you skinny b***h!!!! And I bet some size 5 b***h wrote this…I am here to say I only whine about skinny b***hes thinking they better than me…..Dont knock it til u try it BABES!!! Thanks for all the plus size women who responded to this ignorant ass topic!!! Love to all my BBW’s, Plus Size, Thick, Plump and to infinity women!!!LOL

  • hunnibunnz
    hunnibunnz
    11-15-2009 11:42 am

    @ judokno18: CO-SIGN!

    Y’all are sounding real ignorant right now!

  • blue1_2008
    blue1_2008
    11-14-2009 11:48 pm

    B***hy, whiny?? I bet some skinny ass broad wrote this to try an further berate the “Plus Size” women. I love Monique and I agree I hate you skinny b***hes always complaining that you are fat..blah blah blah…The world has led us to believe that we have to be model thin to be loved.. That’s some BS.. There are very few stores that cater to women with a lil extra cushion and Plus Size Models?? Where the hell are they becuz I havent seen any. If anyone is whiny it’s these “Perfect Models” that think the world revolves around them.

  • kultur32
    kultur32
    11-14-2009 10:18 pm

    WOW, NEVER KNEW THAT, BECUZ I’M 30 AND I NEVER REALLY LIKED A SKINNY GAL, THICKNESS IS THE FUTURE, ALL THICK FEMALES SHOULD BE PROUD, THEY SHOULD LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND SAY “I’M THICK, I’M THICK AS HELL, THANK YOU JESUS-

  • kaikai7
    kaikai7
    11-14-2009 7:44 pm

    I am a shapely plus sized woman wearing a size 14. I happen to love Ashley Stewart’s clothing,because I feel that just because a woman is larger than a size 1-10 does not mean that she can’t dress in a stylish appropriate fashion! There is a need for plus sized fashion lines and show,magazines,etc because for the most part the mainstream top fashion designers are creating their clothing lines for women who are a size 0. The average American woman is a lot larger than that, so there is a need and target customer for this.Plus sized woman should be able to view images of themselves in the pages of magazines, on tv, etc!

  • SouthPhillyDivah69
    SouthPhillyDivah69
    11-14-2009 4:57 pm

    I AGREE WITH A FEW STATEMENTS HERE (I.E.-SHAMEL/GROWNBLKGAL) WE ALL COMPLAIN (SIZE ISNT AN ISSUE-@LEAST NOT 2ME) I USED 2B A SIZE 10, THEN I HAD BABIES, GOT LAZY & SAID 2HELL W/IT BUT KEPT MYSELF CLASSY W/AN EVEN CLASSIER ATTITUDE! UNFORTUNATELY, THIS “EURO-SOCIETY HAS “BRAINWASHED” MANY OF US N2 THINKIN THAT OUR PHYSICAL SIZE DETERMINES WHO WE R & WHERE WE BELONG-NOT!!!! IM A BLESSED “PLUS-SIZED, THICK, PHAT-WHATEVA WOMAN W/ CLASS 2SPARE & THERES NOTHIN OR NOONE WHO CAN TAKE THAT AWAY. AS 4THE “HATERS”, UNDERCOVER “CHUBBY CHASERS” & THOSE IN DENIAL: I SEND U ALL SMOOCHES & A SNICKER BAR CAUSE ITS ALL GOOD IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD! I GET MORE PLAY @MY SIZE 18-20 THAN I EVA & I AINT MAD! IF I WAS THAT UNHAPPY I WOULDVE LOST THE WEIGHT BUT WHY FIX WHAT AINT BROKE?! LIKE MONIQUE, JILL SCOTT, MAISA, ETC-LOVIN WHO U R IS WHAT COUNTS-NOT WHAT STORE U CAN SHOP IN OR WHO U CAN IMPRESS! IF UR UNHAPPY W/ UR “APPEARANCE-CHANGE IT OTHERWISE- LIVE LOVE-BE HAPPY & LIKE ME “REP UR “THICK SISTAHGIRL QUEENDOM! IM A 40 YR GRANDMA & IM COOL W/MINES!

  • dallas-princess
    dallas-princess
    11-14-2009 3:44 pm

    i like haughville mamis statement

  • Pootapye
    Pootapye
    11-14-2009 1:29 pm

    Tell it

  • haughvillemami1
    haughvillemami1
    11-14-2009 12:38 pm

    Yea XxsexyredbonexX I agree with everything you’re saying. I’m plus sized as well and I don’t think that just because we are bigger than society wants us to be means that we can’t be as pretty or as fashionable as someone who is a size 8. Let me just go ahead and dissect this article. First let’s talk about the complaining. It may seem like thats all we do but how else are you going to hear us out? Would you rather us go on sweet little campaigns to where people would ignore us or would you rather us just sit in the shadows and do nothing? Well I’m sorry to say, but it is OUR time to be heard, and if the only way that we are going to get through to shallow minded people is by complaining, then so be it. I bet if we weren’t even complaining, this article wouldn’t have been written. It gives us a voice, letting you all know that we do care and I’ts time to make a change.

    Now to answer the question “Why should people who are bigger have their own exclusive clothing and fashion shows instead of being of one accord with the general population?” Well the author of this article is right. If it wasn’t for plus size specialty stores, these other stores that have the “Plus Size” section dont have too much variety. The fabric is inferior, the style isnt all that great and all of it always looks old like it has just been sitting there, tried on by every PHAT girl that walks up in there. I’m sorry but i go there to by NEW clothes, not “Not So Gently Used” Clothes lol. It seems like only the ones who cater to giving full figured women the style that they crave are the only ones who care about us. Thats why we have our own exclusive clothing stores. And fashion shows! Let a plus size chica work the runway at a fashion show and watch her be the butt of every joke leaving everyones lips. No matter how well she worked it, she will never be accepted like the smaller models. Point Blank. Thats all there is to it. I love to model, but i have to do it in my own personal photo shoots. And believe me, I can tear it up! Ask that chica below me who can also tear it UP!!!!!!! HAHA. Anyway. Back to it. Oh and one more thing before i move on. The stores arent dumbing down styles like skinny jeans and leggings. I can ROCK the hell out of some skinny jeans AND leggings but you HAVE HAVE HAVE TO MAKE SURE YOU GET SOME THAT FIT YOU. It depends on your body type and if you’re getting the right size. Its up to the designers to make clothes that make us look good but its up to us to judge whether or not we need to be wearing it! Let’s get something that accentuates, compliments and FLATTERS our delicious CURVES! ok im done.

    Nope not yet, the night club… I can dance all night by myself and not give a damn, but for once it would be nice to have a HANDSOME fella come and offer to buy us a drink. Since these brothas who LOVE thick women are sometimes a little bit TOO SHY to come up to us in a regular club because their boys will dog them out, I think it would be nice to have a plus size club. ESPECIALLY SINCE THOSE GUYS WHO WOULD DOG THEM OUT WOULD PROBABLY BE UP IN THE PLUS SIZE CLUB TOO! Don’t even front! I can party any where, but sometimes it would be nice to not feel like you have to “cut a b**ch) for looking at you the wrong way! haha

    And last but not least I just want to address one final question. “Why do plus size women always have to squeeze into the tightest seats on the bus?” THATS BECAUSE WE DONT HAVE ANYWHERE ELSE TO SIT! If you don’t want us to SQUEEZE then all the skinny people need to group together and give our BIG ASSES some damn room! What? Do you expect us to stand up? Hell naw! If you don’t move we WILL SQUEEZE! Its as simple as that. If ya’ll got a problem then start regrouping! Hahaha!

    With all the love for my plus size queens (and women in general.(notice i didnt complain about you all. Its because i love you too!)) Peace!

  • perciouslee-lee
    perciouslee-lee
    11-14-2009 12:36 pm

    all of ya need to shut da hell up cuz we are no damn whiny-ass chicks we want to be treated the same way as any size chicks but if an skinny-ass chick will be complaining abut their image and all other stuff.I Got one thing to say to all the haters in the words of miss tyra banks “KISS MY FAT ASS”

  • XxsexyredbonexX
    XxsexyredbonexX
    11-14-2009 1:06 am

    We aren’t whiny, we want to be treated fairly.

    Now, firstly let me say that you as a woman should be ashamed of yourself.
    A woman is a woman regardless of her appearance..rep..class or size.
    I PERSONALY do not complain about who I am or about my size.. I embrace it. Why?
    Because I am who I was intended to be. And i LOVE me.. All women are beautiful. Big ups to the skinny chicks.. FAT chicks.. full chested.. flat chested.. flat bootied, cottage cheese bootied.. fake tit and booty women, weavie wonders and fro rockin women.. be they whatever race they are.This is the problem amoungst women.. WE DONT ENCOURAGE one another.. we opt to pull each other down. Fat women are beautiful.. as are skinny women, but it is a social fact that we are not excepted in media or in the social eye (ie, why our section is always in the back). That is fine and well.. but that doesnt stop us from wanting what everyone else wants. We want and deserve the same opprotunities, pleasures and posetions as everyone else.
    —*Why should people who are bigger have their own exclusive clothing and fashion shows instead of being of one accord with the general population?* —
    Because society has chosen to push us away from being excepted in the “general population”. Tell me about the last time you saw a big gurl rip the runway anywhere else besides on a BET program. NEVER! We cant go into Hot Topic, Vickie Secrets, or even JC Penny’s to find something. Oh, excuse me.. Penny’s does have “plus sized” clothing. IF you are down for looking like a granny or a picnic table cloth, then by all means BUY IT UP!! We didnt ask for population segregation. To most we arent appealing, therefore shoved into our own category. That’s why we deserve it dear.
    We took sour lemons and made sweet lemonade. Just because we are bigger gives us reason to ecxcept less? Excuse me.. but no. We are intitled to fashion and popularity as much as anyone else. As far as the Fat girl night-club.. im all for it. Why would we want to go to a club where the majority of men dont want to hit on us or even offer a drink. Even if they do wanna get at us, they wait till no one is around so they dont get dogged (those men mind you are NOT real men). It would be nice to be around people/men who embrace your physique. If you dont wanna see us.. dont come. Simple as that. You’d be surprised at how many men love us.. anywho.
    Im done with my 2cent.. Be blessed yall!

  • meechie2641
    meechie2641
    11-14-2009 12:05 am

    thats like going to the bath room after a truckdriver used it. being fat is a man made virus.

  • msveevee1
    msveevee1
    11-13-2009 8:10 pm

    This is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo redundant! Let it go please and let ppl live their lives the way they want to and look how they wanna look. If it ain’t you, then what damn difference does it make??? STF up sometimes!

  • GG1025
    GG1025
    11-13-2009 6:22 pm

    Big cows hum I wonder who you know in your family, friends that you put on a front could see t his. How easy it is to go right to your page.

  • C4pricorn
    C4pricorn
    11-13-2009 5:50 pm

    LOSE SOME WEIGHT U BIG COWS.

  • -HatedOnMostly-
    -HatedOnMostly-
    11-13-2009 5:47 pm

    oh and sorry for using jesus and 2 curse words in the same post but people r just complete idiots and hateful for no reason…when you hating on plus-size girls you hating on me…no one said every big girl is pretty but how dare you imply that none of us are? go find a girlfriend or something!

  • -HatedOnMostly-
    -HatedOnMostly-
    11-13-2009 5:44 pm

    blah blah blah…who WANTS to be skinny tho? i don’t understand what’s so sexy about lookn like a skeleton with skin?!!! i’m content with my size and my MAN loves me, my FAMILY loves me, my FRIENDS love me, my JESUS loves me…I MADE THIS NAME FOR A REASON…MY LIFE IS GOOD NO MATTER WHAT!

    AND I BET I COULD DRESS (AND EAT LMAO) HALF IF NOT MORE OF ALL SKINNY CHICKS UNDER THE TABLE SO LET’S KEEP IT REAL! NEXT!

    oh @ lastmanstandingtall…you literally look like a rodent homeboy why are you steady talkin bout big girls LMAO! you jus mad cuz even the big sloppy b***hes probably won’t f**k wit ya. you always talkin bout big girls ugh. sorry but super lame. not to mention incredibly immature.

  • Tiahna_DeSha
    Tiahna_DeSha
    11-13-2009 4:23 pm

    LOL…….Damn we couldn’t find a photoshopped pic of Mo’ ? I admit I’m a whiny complaining plus size sistah but clearly we haven’t complained enough…all these plus size “Divas” and not 1 has a clothing line. JLO has a line that includes plus, Beyonce’s line has plus…where’s the j-hudson line? What happened to Mo’s line? …dang there I go again b***hin..sorry folks bad habits are hard to break.

  • MiamiMami78
    MiamiMami78
    11-13-2009 1:29 pm

    I’m sorry, but this;

    “Hmm… Just wondering… did anyone actually FINISH the article before they started dogging the author. Because if not you kinda proved her point. lol”

    By judokno18

    Made me SRSLY LOL!!!!

  • MarieDenee
    MarieDenee
    11-13-2009 11:54 am

    This is very sad, and I have written an article in response to this…
    http://thecurvyfashionista.mariedenee.com/2009/11/hello-beautiful-excuse-me-whiny-plus-size-women-are-not/

  • GG1025
    GG1025
    11-13-2009 5:14 am

    Recently I review this authur notes a 2nd time and agree with on of the other person whom review the note completely. The note is also letting people know that unto some change is made for plus-size women, (playing field is leveled for all. The fight will continue to wage on) That is one of the reason I redirect my challege to Stores, Malls, Dr Office, Public places to get with the changes we’re here to stay)>

    The Authur may actual help our cause……So thank you.

  • 22andlovingit1
    22andlovingit1
    11-12-2009 11:54 pm

    THIS IS NOTHING BUT NEGITIVITY THE TRUTH IS NO ONE REALLY WANTS TO BE FAT BUT WHEN YOU ARE A CERTIAN SIZE THAT PEPLE THINK ARE FAT IT HURTS THE WOMEN AND THEY DO EVERYTHING TO LOOSE THE WEIGHT . bUT ALWASY FEEL LIKE THERE COMING IP SHORT THEN YOU TURN ON THE TV AND SEE ALL THE NEXT TOP MODEL SHOWS OR THAT MAKE ME A SUPER MODEL SHOW WHAT SIZE ARE THEY NO BIGER THEN A 5. i GET CALLED A FAT WOMEN OR PLUS SIZE AND LOOK AT ME IM NOT IM THICK BUT TO TE WORLD IM FA. sO ITS NO NICE LAY OFF THE COMMENTS THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO CANT HANLDE IT AS WELL AS I CAN AND ARE ON THE VERGE OF SUCUIDE BECASUE OF NEGITIVE PEOPLE .

  • lilhottchick04
    lilhottchick04
    11-12-2009 9:06 pm

    what kind of article is this??

  • judokno18
    judokno18
    11-12-2009 8:32 pm

    Hmm… Just wondering… did anyone actually FINISH the article before they started dogging the author. Because if not you kinda proved her point. lol

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