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Sorry, I had to weigh in, here. Absolutely true, obesity is unequivocally bad. But have you all checked out Buffy? She's not obese. She's stacked. She looks pretty toned, just happens to be blessed with a phat ass. This whole bit about the protein shakes I just don't buy, but regardless, so what? Buffy is not obese. The end.
I think that the tired-ass point (sorry, can't help myself with the butt puns) that Dickerson is regurgitating: that black men like big women, is true (to the extent that any blanket-stereotype can be true, but then again, those are the ones that Dickerson goes in for)if understood to mean that "big" women are the ones that look like Buffy. Hourglass, toned, stacked, brick-s-house types, who actually look like they could bench-press you, not literally OBESE women who would get winded thinking about it. There is a distinction to be made here, though Dickerson is hoping that by ignoring it it'll disappear. Buffy does not weigh 450 lbs like the cousin who is eating herself to death.
