[darkfanboy]

I find myself in this boat as well. I know throughout my high school years I was blinded by the BS brought on by the media, but finally had my eyes opened by the few women in my life that made me see things straight. There is obesity and there is beauty, and you can tell when someone is just plain fat. Some people just don't care about themselves. And then there are people like my wife who have a glandular issue. After discovering she was diabetic and a simple dosage of metformin her weight is well under control. She eats right, tries to exercise, lives right, but she's still a big woman. I love her none the less. I find it funny that society used to prop up big women as beautiful signs of fertility, now they are just stick figures of sexuality. It's sad really.