Yesterday I received my monthly issue of a magazine that covers the adult industry. I was excited when I saw that one of the Merchandising articles was covering the BBW genre and how this genre is “fattening up sales”. “Cool,” I thought.
My excitement however, quickly turned into shock and anger. The article’s language is pretty demeaning and I was honestly surprised to read such garbage in this magazine. I’d like to point out some of the horrible language used in this piece and address the statements made by its author.
“In the past, BBW movies were treated with about the same respect fat girls get in real life.” First of all, this article was written by a man so I am very curious to know how he is an authority on how much respect is given to ANY woman. I am a fat girl and I get lots of respect. Respect is usually given based on character, not weight. I as a woman have seen both thin and not so thin women be treated like shit. It’s never cool to witness or go through, but this writer thinks he’s making a point.
He goes on to say that better production values from main stream studios are “allowing those too embarrassed to actually be seen with fat chicks the opportunity to jerk off to them in the privacy of their homes.” WOW. This sentence shocked me so much that I wondered how this ignorance ever got published… in 2009… in an article that is meant to help retailers with what to movies to stock (I think.)
And that was just the first paragraph!
The second paragraph commends Zero Tolerance for giving the BBW genre a makeover in the Waist Watchers series saying that they “successfully showcased the heifer as glamour model.” I am on the cover of Waist Watchers 4 and did my first boy/girl scene for the series. I am in no way a heifer. I was recently called a cow, but that was by a drunk crazy person in Downtown. I had no idea that I would read the same ignorance in an industry magazine. I wonder if the author ran out of ways to describe plus sized women, or if he really is that big of an asshole? Either way, he should not be given a platform to perpetuate negativity.
And in the most offensive statement in the article, he says that these movies “remind us that the girl-next-door doesn’t look like Jesse Jane and will, indeed, blow any loser for the cost of a Wendy’s Baconator.” I have no idea exactly what he means, but this is highly offensive. I bet the writer was really proud of himself when he typed that sentence. He thought he was being clever by including a hamburger reference while disrespecting fat girls in the same sentence! Bravo, Mr. X!
He goes on to say that a certain production company doesn’t “skimp on the lard” for their movies because they “wrangle up the biggest bovines in the business”. Another cow reference? I am starting to believe that this article was not written a professional, but by a 7th grade boy with a fetish for cows.
The reason I am so upset is because I have met so many amazing plus sized women in the industry. They are proud, hard working, sexual, smart, business minded women. My fabulous peers and I deserve the same respect given to the thinner women written about in the magazine. Being a plus sized girl in this industry takes strength, courage and nerve. This article could’ve been pretty effective, groundbreaking even, but instead the writer took it as his opportunity to let us all know how much he does not enjoy bigger women. Aside from BBW porn being a means for fat lovers to jack off to, it’s also very important in helping other curvy girls in becoming comfortable with being sexual and expressing their sexuality. I can not explain in words how wonderful it feels to read an email or meet a woman in real life who THANKS me for being out there representing fat girls. I’ve heard many women’s struggles with feeling beautiful and desired. They tell me how seeing women who look like them makes them feel better about their bodies. In my world THIS is the respect fat girls get in real life and THIS is the respect I give all my plus sized sisters.
