most beautiful peeps

[tsophra]

Re: most beautiful peeps

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SistaCtry</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jaded</div><div class="ubbcode-body">so this beautiful young sister should be dismissed because she's overweight? sad </div></div>

???, absolutely not, but she should not be mad fun of...she is a lovely girl, but she sure aint no beauty, so having her on a beauty list, is??? what u think?? </div></div>

i did not think they were making fun of her probably because <span style="font-weight: bold">i</span> think she is beautiful and I was giving kudos to people for not falling into the usual &quot;beauty standard&quot; trap

[tsophra]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jaded</div><div class="ubbcode-body">so this beautiful young sister should be dismissed because she's overweight? sad </div></div>

Let's be honest hear roun fi mi pawts from mi yute all de yaadie dem call dat a wintah ting.

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and I can just imagine whey they do consider beautiful

[tsophra]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SandiF</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So far we know that people on Jamaicans.com are at a minimum not comfortable with her being on the list....

We don't know how the folks at People mag were reacting to it but the reaction here is telling.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Peasie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
4. <span style="font-style: italic">People Magazine</span> is all about sales and, having Sidibe as one of their 100 most beautiful, is going to generate revenue and free publicity for them. </div></div>

yes cah ppl a guh wundah how de hell an wah de hell shi a duh een deh.

It a guh sell off an ppl a guh tawk bout it like crazy only caz a dis-belief.

I would not point her out tuh mi dawta as an example of beauty. An mi nuh kno har suh mi cyaan talk bout inner beauty. </div></div> </div></div>


nuff said

[Emperah]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jaded</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jaded</div><div class="ubbcode-body">so this beautiful young sister should be dismissed because she's overweight? sad </div></div>

Let's be honest hear roun fi mi pawts from mi yute all de yaadie dem call dat a wintah ting.

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and I can just imagine whey they do consider beautiful </div></div>

funny ting is when mi remembah who ann who did a chat it, nuff dem deh wid big ooman now an nuff a dem yt tuh.

[Emperah]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SandiF</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So far we know that people on Jamaicans.com are at a minimum not comfortable with her being on the list....

We don't know how the folks at People mag were reacting to it but the reaction here is telling.

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Yeh but fi some a wi dat is becah wi kno de history of dese folks in chawge of de media. Dem have de power to turn ppl's tinkin a certain way. Why should anyone sit here an bleev dat dem hawt is genuine an dat dem truly love blk ppl.

Dem always have an agenda. Look at de cartoons of Michelle Obama from some a dese same ppl.

[tsophra]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: blakkgiant</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The Image of the Fat Black Women
Gains Popularity in the Media
An Image Popular in Films Raises Some Eyebrows in Ads
By JEREMY PETERS, The New York Times,




At 200 pounds plus -- most of that pure attitude -- she is hard to miss.

Her on-screen presence takes on many variations, but she is easily recognizable by a few defining traits. Other than her size, she is almost always black. She typically finds herself in an exchange that is either confrontational or embarrassing. And her best line is often little more than a sassy &quot;Mmmm hmmm.&quot;

This caricature, playing on stereotypes of heavy black women as boisterous and sometimes aggressive, has been showing up for some time in stand-up comedy routines and in movies like “Big Momma’s House’’ and “Diary of a Mad Black Woman.’’ Often, the pieces are produced by directors and writers who are black themselves.

With black creators giving more acceptability to the image, it is now starting to appear more often in television commercials as well. Most recently some variation of this character has appeared in commercials for Dairy Queen, Universal Studios and Captain Morgan rum.

But despite the popularity of such characters among blacks, the use of the image of big black women as the target of so many jokes is troublesome to some marketers and media scholars.

&quot;It is perpetuating a stereotype that black females are strong, aggressive, controlling people,&quot;’ said Tommy E. Whittler, a marketing professor at DePaul University. &quot;I don’t think you want to do that.&quot;

To be sure, sassy overweight black women appear to represent only a small fraction of the African-American actresses who appear in commercials. Marketers have made strides in recent years toward making advertisements with a more diverse cast of characters.

Blacks regularly appear in commercials selling products as diverse as toothpaste, credit cards and erectile dysfunction medication. Indeed, according to several academic studies, over the last 15 years the number of blacks appearing in commercials has been roughly proportional to their share of the American population, about 14 percent.

&quot;Over the years it's evolved,&quot; said Fay Ferguson, co-chief executive of Burrell Communications, an advertising agency that specializes in marketing toward black consumers. &quot;We've come a long way in how we see black women in advertising.

Stereotypical portrayals of blacks in commercials have drawn criticism from civil rights groups for decades. Some of the earliest and most iconic examples of blacks in advertising -- Rastus the Cream of Wheat chef, Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben -- showed blacks in subservient roles that recalled the days of slavery.

Those images have been toned down over the years (Aunt Jemima’s red bandanna, for example, was replaced with pearl earrings and a lace collar in 1989) and are no longer as overtly stereotypical as they once were. And now there are many examples of blacks presented in middle-class settings and engaged in mainstream activities.

To some, the freer use of overweight black women in comic situations suggests a welcome change that reflects a broader acceptability of blacks in the media. But others find the recurring use of the image a return to a disturbing past.

And some say these images may serve to exacerbate misunderstanding between whites and blacks.

&quot;Not only are we being given images of who we are supposed to be, but others are also formulating their images of us based on that,&quot; said Marilyn Kern Foxworth, an author and marketing expert who studies how blacks are portrayed in advertising. &quot;People have already determined who we are and how we’re going to react in certain situations.&quot;

The heavy black female makes one of her latest appearances in a commercial for the Dairy Queen Blizzard. In the spot, a man boarding an airplane sets his ice cream shake down so he can load his bag into an overhead compartment. As he reaches up, another passenger on the plane starts eating the Blizzard. Seeing this, the first man lets go of his bag so he can reclaim his Blizzard and inadvertently drops his luggage on another passenger’s head.

That unlucky passenger happens to be an overweight black woman who lets out an irritated gasp that reminds all the passengers around her who not to mess with.

Rick Cusato, executive vice president for Grey Worldwide, the firm that wrote the campaign for Dairy Queen, said the script was not written with a black actress in mind.

&quot;We basically cast the funniest person,&quot; he said. &quot;We didn’t specifically cast for a black woman. We said, 'Wow, she's really funny.' And she happened to be black.&quot;

Another new Dairy Queen commercial features a similar character -- played by the same actress -- working as an airport security screener. When a man tries to walk through a metal detector eating a Dairy Queen burger, her eyes dart disapprovingly downward at him. Then she barks, &quot;Uh, uh. Get on!&quot; directing him to walk through again.

Michael Keller, Dairy Queen’s chief brand officer, said the company considered actors of all sizes and races before making a decision. &quot;We looked at male bodybuilders, really big tall women. We looked at just about everybody we could,” he said. “She projected an image that was everything we wanted it to be. This is just a strong woman being herself.” He added that the company had not received any complaints about the ads being racially insensitive. But to some these images are troubling.

&quot;It's not an accident that she's African-American and heavy,&quot; said Howard Buford, founder and chief executive of Prime Access, an advertising agency that creates commercials marketed toward minority audiences. &quot;There's certainly a long heritage of large African-American women who are kind of sassy and feisty and humorously angry. There's a sense that this whole value system is OK again.&quot;

Large black actresses have had recurring roles in commercials over the years, and often are cast in roles where their aggressiveness is a defining trait. The heavy black spokeswoman for Pine Sol was one of the first to embrace the role. Her aggression was aimed at household dirt, however, not people. In a recent commercial for Captain Morgan rum, a large black woman berates her man for playing dominoes and making her late.


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yu knoe what commercial me nu get..its the one where the chunky sister jumps on the bed where the man and woman are fooling around..and they the voice over said you should have gone to (ashley stewart?).. yu eva seet? what the heck are they advertising??

anyways I think the overweight black women thing is always present in the media.. i did not notice it gaining popularity but mebbe it is so :shrug:

[Wahalla]

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shi nat fat shi obese...

[Emperah]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">shi nat fat shi obese... </div></div>

yuh right enuh, but is how yuh fuss come wid it dwl

[blugiant]

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a latt aff peeps pon dat list mii dissagree widd. wat mii qwestianinn iss y peeps magazine putt ar pon da list? iss itt fii use da fat dark skin blakk ooman fii create cantroversee fii gitt more sale? iss itt oyinbo guilt fii justifii oyinbo racist tandard aff beauty? iss itt a sincerce attempt bye oyinbo fii create a new standard aff beauty fii include fat oomen?

yu knoo mii awlso bunn fiyah pon rihanna, halle ann beyonce as da tandard aff beauty oyinbo usuallee push as de blakk tandard aff beautee? reaction too sum aff mii tredd ar usuallee tellinn fi wat beeinn sed ann wat natt beeinn sed. sandif mii wandarinn wat yu tryinn fii sey pon da issue bye chattinn bout addar peeps reaction ann natt yurs


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SandiF</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So far we know that people on Jamaicans.com are at a minimum not comfortable with her being on the list....

We don't know how the folks at People mag were reacting to it but the reaction here is telling.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Peasie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
4. <span style="font-style: italic">People Magazine</span> is all about sales and, having Sidibe as one of their 100 most beautiful, is going to generate revenue and free publicity for them. </div></div>

yes cah ppl a guh wundah how de hell an wah de hell shi a duh een deh.

It a guh sell off an ppl a guh tawk bout it like crazy only caz a dis-belief.

I would not point her out tuh mi dawta as an example of beauty. An mi nuh kno har suh mi cyaan talk bout inner beauty. </div></div> </div></div>

[Wahalla]

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so halle, beyonce ect are less attractive than this obese person ????..I dont find her attractive, I am sure she would be described as having a wonderful personality.. neither do I find rehanna or Halle.. that is my standard.. Beauty is subjective... I am ugly by all standards, plastic surgery failed to cover the scars, so coming from the shallow end of the beauty pool I am cool with being the thought of as ugly... fame does not enhanse beauty.. what si famous fa anyway ??? Running a marathon, winning an eating competition ? curing cancer, potential noble prize winner ?

[Tulip]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BiziBubbla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I like that photo of her </div></div>


It is the best one I have ever seen.

[Jazz]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">so halle, beyonce ect are less attractive than this obese person ????..I dont find her attractive, I am sure she would be described as having a wonderful personality.. neither do I find rehanna or Halle.. that is my standard.. Beauty is subjective... I am ugly by all standards, plastic surgery failed to cover the scars, so coming from the shallow end of the beauty pool I am cool with being the thought of as ugly... fame does not enhanse beauty.. what si famous fa anyway ??? Running a marathon, winning an eating competition ? curing cancer, potential noble prize winner ? </div></div>

You're beautiful

[Suesumba]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">laffin inna de hoffis b4 it went to press an all now dem still a laff. </div></div>

mission accomplished.

as an aside, barak obama, the lawyer being referred to as &quot;an articulate black man&quot;.


&quot;yo yo yo. s'up foo?&quot; &lt;--presidential oath of office &lt;-- last heard from the president of the united states as heard by a freakingly scary lot of white american/and in my office people.

[R_C]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">...Beauty is subjective... </div></div>

Beauty contests and all other attempts to rank beauty are ridiculous.

[Suesumba]

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k. when i walk (o god do i walk) on the streets (not as a street walker but as a means of transportationa0 i notice -- for every HWP black woman there are 10 of that person pictured above. admit it. black women let themselves go on a whole. i know there are endoctrine concerns with some but not all.