Miss Large Lady
Jul 10th, 2009 by heidi
I clearly picked the wrong country to live in. I should move right back to Burkina Faso!
Amusingly enough, they’re not wrong about the way that many African men find large women attractive. I’ve lived in several different places where there were large numbers of African immigrants. The only time I get hit on by men is when it’s an African man.
I guess the fat lady with the blonde hair is just too irresistible!
Heh. I’m brunette and ditto. Africans and South Americans.
I lived in Burkina Faso for nine years as a chubby (to western eyes) woman . And I was NEVER hit on so much in all my life! Plus I had other women ask me how I kept my great figure!
A couple of years back, I was reading an FA blog and the topic of the day was cultural standards in the USA. When I commented about my experiences in Burkina, I got SO slammed by one of the other commenters. She called me a colonial oppressor, racist and a bunch of other nonsense. It was crazy and I got a really bad impression of the FA movement as a scary place, full of politcally correct, very unkind people, who are always looking for the worst in others. Seriously! It was only in 2009 that I started reading a couple of FA blogs again.
But the only one I dare ever comment on is yours, as I know you wouldn’t stand for name-calling and unkindness.
I live in Peckham, south London, where there’s a very large west African population. The ONLY men who ever hit on me are men from west Africa.
Unfortnately the only chat-up lines I’ve had have been very crude (e.g. “Hey woman! You married? Can I meet you later?” etc) so I’ve never taken any of them up on their offers!
Laura P – I know what you mean. I used to work in Woolwich in a travel agents with a very tight, badly fitting uniform. Those rolls were on constant display. I lost count of the amount of times I heard “Lovely lady, you go out with me tonight”. Notice the lack of question mark. It was never a question, more an order!