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I even tried to explain to my female co-workers that my thinness was due to genetics, which is true.

I love my Caucasian and Asian Sisters but like anyone else I want to be accepted by my own community.

One brother told me I had a body like a white woman. Right before I started work at my present job I stopped taking the anti-depressants. If my weight suddenly ballooned to 195 lbs, something that is genetically impossible for me, but if those numbers did rise would my Black Woman Membership card arrive in the mail? Prior to my forties, when I was a young woman working in an office, co-workers would leave all types of cookies, cakes, snacks, even cans of Ensure telling me in a not so subtle way that I needed these foods to “fatten up” and become an accepted member of the tribe. Believe it or not I received tons of compliments from my African American co-workers. I remember gaining a lot of weight when I was in my 40s due to taking anti-depressants.

I’ve actually had women especially Black women come up to me and tell me they hate me or call me some nasty names I won’t repeat. One Thin Woman’s Hopeful Journey towards Cultural Acceptance Skinny Legs And All – Joe Tex (Dial)1967Īs a Black Woman who has been called skinny, bony, stick lady, po’ and various other negative names for years. Reflections from the Woman with the Skinny Legs