Big Beautiful Woman
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{{Short description|Woman with plus-size figure}}
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"Big Beautiful Woman" (commonly abbreviated as BBW) is a positive (non-pejorative) term for an overweight woman.{{cite journal|last=Schwimmer|first=Jeffrey|title=Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance|pmc=1281327|page=A706|volume=113|issue=10|journal=Environmental Health Perspectives|doi=10.1289/ehp.113-a706a|year=2005}}
Meaning and usage
The terms "Big Beautiful Women" and "BBW" were coined by Carole Shaw in 1979, when she launched BBW Magazine, a fashion and lifestyle magazine for "plus-size" women.{{Cite web |title=BBW Past & Present |url=http://www.bbwmagazine.com/bbw-past-present/|access-date=2015-08-05 |date= 2014-08-15}} BBW Magazine trademarked the term "Big Beautiful Woman", which was later transferred to Dimensions Magazine.{{Cite web|date=2007-12-31|title=What is Dimensions Online?|url=http://www.dimensionsmagazine.com/faq.html|access-date=2020-06-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071231142503/http://www.dimensionsmagazine.com/faq.html|archive-date=2007-12-31}}
The term is also commonly used as a positive euphemism by those involved with the fat acceptance movement.{{Cite journal|last=Marcus|first=Sarah-Rose|date=2016|title=Thinspiration vs. thicksperation: Comparing pro-anorexic and fat acceptance image posts on a photo-sharing site|journal=Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace|volume=10|issue=2|pages=6|doi=10.5817/cp2016-2-5|issn=1802-7962|doi-access=free}}
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The term has several near-synonyms with varying shades of meaning, such as "full-figured", "voluptuous", "zaftig", and "Rubenesque", the latter term referring to the art of Peter Paul Rubens, best known for portraying full-bodied women.{{Cite journal|last1=Swami|first1=Viren|last2=Gray|first2=Maggie|last3=Furnham|first3=Adrian|date=September 2006|title=The Female Nude in Rubens: Disconfirmatory Evidence of the Waist-to-Hip Ratio Hypothesis of Female Physical Attractiveness|journal=Imagination, Cognition and Personality|volume=26|issue=1|pages=139–147|doi=10.2190/r11x-5752-v164-4240|s2cid=143925958|issn=0276-2366}}
== Variants ==
The acronym BBBW stands for Big Beautiful Black Woman.{{Cite book|title=From NSA to FWB : big beautiful women and sexual agency online|last=Walkington, Lori.|oclc=726764353}} Another variant is SSBBW: Supersized Big Beautiful Woman. There is no formal definition which explains the exact difference between BBW and SSBBW. Some BBWs or SSBBWs consider themselves to be feedees.{{Cite journal|last=Jones|first=Angela|date=2018-12-10|title=The pleasures of fetishization: BBW erotic webcam performers, empowerment, and pleasure|journal=Fat Studies|volume=8|issue=3|pages=279–298|doi=10.1080/21604851.2019.1551697|s2cid=150004077|issn=2160-4851}} Dimensions Magazine considers a woman over {{convert|350|lbs}} to be an SSBBW.
=Big Handsome Man=
"Big Handsome Man" (BHM), or "Big Hulking Men", or sometimes "Big Beautiful Man" (BBM), refers to a physically or sexually attractive fat man. Women who are attracted to BHMs are called "Female Fat Admirers" (FFA). In the gay community, BHMs are sometimes called "chubs", and men who are attracted to BHMs are known as chubby chasers.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}
See also
References
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External links
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- [http://www.bbwmagazine.com BBW Magazine site]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071231142503/http://www.dimensionsmagazine.com/faq.html Free site of Dimensions Magazine], previously associated with NAAFA, a "size-positive" lifestyle magazine with resources and forums.
- [http://www.naafa.org/ National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance] is a non-profit human rights organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for fat people.
Category:Fat acceptance movement