BBW

Why don't I like BBW? I consider myself to be a beautiful woman. I am certainly big. But maybe because I don't like euphemisms, I prefer the word fat. Yes I am big, large, and all those other things – but what the word I identify with is fat.

So I guess what I am is a FBW.

I like that better, I guess.

And it's funny because I like acronyms. They can be all kinds of fun. I love LYLAS (love you like a sister), and I use LYLAA (love you like an auntie), and LYANJBYMS (love you and not just because you’re my sister).

Maybe I feel BBW (or FBW) is redundant. It may be trite, but everyone is beautiful in their own way. Average sized women aren't ABW, and thin ones aren't TBW or SBW. Why do fat women have to justify themselves by saying they are big AND beautiful – like those two words wouldn't normally go together.

And don't get me wrong, in my days of personal ads, I used BBW – because we all know that is the code to let the men looking at the ads know this woman is FAT. Although come to think of it, maybe I didn't use BBW – my recollection (going back, lo' these many years) is that my ads started "Fat and happy but not dumb …" And the kind of guys who responded, were the kind of guys who appreciated the fact that I knew I was fat, and I was comfortable with it. Often, the use of the word "fat" would be what attracted them to my ad over others.

So come on folks, I want a new fun acronym. This one doesn't make me happy, but I can't think of anything better (and since I'm married, I am not sufficiently motivated to put the brain cells to work on the problem).