Not Your Brand of Thick

I posted a thread on Twitter the other day. I was super pissed. People were shaming women who weren't their own "build-a-babe". I got specifically mad over one thing, really, the thing I relate to the most: thick and curvy girls with bellies. Here's the rant, for your entertainment. Tweets separated by bullets, and edited to be readable:

• Bruh, I gotta say one thing: DO NOT SAY YOU LIKE CURVY WOMEN IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE A BELLY AND SOME JIGGLE. (a thread.)
• Like bro, most women have bellies. Even more slender women. Slender PEOPLE. Have bellies. Because there's like... stuff inside of us.
• So when you say, "Oh I love thick women", shut the fuck up if you just mean like... a Beyonce booty and not the belly.
• Like, don't be talking about, "Oh, I love it, issa snack" because homie, I'm a full course meal and I want someone who's hungry.
• Don't say you're hungry and fill up on salad BRUH.
• Like, people say shit to me about "Lose the belly and you'd be thick, ma." BRUH I'M A BIG GIRL, MY PERSONALITY HAS TO FIT SOMEWHERE, THE FUCK??
• But don't try and build a bxtch like a bucket of chicken with only thighs and breasts. You're gonna get a wing, bro. (end thread.)

Huh. It's like I was a little irritated there. "Bruh."

Regardless of my vernacular/syntax/whatever, my point is valid. Do people not understand that as someone who is larger, sometimes a flat stomach doesn't come with the package? Sometimes there's some chub, and that's fine! Why does a flat stomach and big thighs mean you're worth someone else's vision of perfection? Screw that.

Men, women, everything in between and outside: if you have a belly, awesome. If you don't, cool. If you have a 2-4-6 pack and every muscle and vein is pressed up against your skin, good for you. But at the end of the day, all of these people are going to stop flexing and take a seat or something, and what's going to happen? Some dinner rolls and stuff. Oh no, the horror, whatever shall we do. People are people. Skin isn't a piece of crazy hard paper that'll stay pretty much taut no matter how you flex it. If you have some extra skin, if you have some extra fat, if you don't have either of those things... You're a human. And certain things happen with humans.

But do not put someone out there because they don't fit what you personally find attractive. If I had a dollar for every person who said some nonsense about my stomach, my flappy arms, my double chin? Please. So much money. (Actually, if I can get funding for how many people point these things out on me, I'd probably take that job over anything else.) But really. Why are we doing this?

Some women - like me - may not be your taste. Some people may not be your taste. But I don't need your validation. Someone else loves my belly. I love my belly. So shut the fuck up about it.