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JaysGame
Comment: Damn, its a movie! What can you do? It will draw crowds and it looks damn funny. I'm sure you saw protesters at the Wayan's "White Chicks" due to them making fun of Yuppy white women.
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Selah
Comment: This will be the shortest protest in history. They'll march 15 feet and their protest songs will be buried under the sounds of their ankles snapping. Then the walls of oppression will come crashing down (Oh I'm sorry, that was their support hosiery)
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MsVanese
Comment: Enough is enough. Why don't we protest protesting? Dang pretty soon we won't even be able to cough without offending somebody. I agree with Jays, nobody is protesting these dumb azz reality shows.
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DUCHESS40
Comment: Why don't we protest something meaningful...violence, unemployment rate, high school drop out rate, teenage pregnancy, war in Iraq...need I go on
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McNasty
Comment: Just exactly who will be protesting? The picture nor the movie are representative of me or anyone in my family and since it's comedy that's how I see it. Where was Najee Ali when the illegal immigrants were thick as thieves protesting - looks to me like he could have teamed up with the INS and depleted some of those numbers. Where is his consistency with the race relations in LA or even the gang violence. This is yet another brother with a voice and no clear priorities.
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PgDn
Comment: Yeah it looks funny but at the expense of Black women once again.
Between the portrayals of Martin Lawrence and Taylor Perry and now Eddie, Black women who look a certain way will continue to be seen as loud, obnoxious, over sexed and violent. Thanks my black "brothers".
When I go to work after this movie comes out on DVD I'll have to explain (AGAIN!) to the immigrants and whites at work that these type of movies do not reflect all Black women.
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PgDn
Comment: Just hope that Will Smith and our other Black actors won't feel the need to embrace this type of character too.
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MsVanese
Comment: *shaking head*
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khufu
Comment: I do fing the promotional campaign offensive....yall dont have a problem of the poster with Eddie laying on his back and the female character on top of him? You dont hink that is disrespectuful and a bit much? you dont mind your kids looking at that?
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archcookies
Comment: I'm sorry but Eddie Murphy's comic offerings for the last several years has been offensive to me on many levels. He thinks fat people are funny and flatulence and inappropriate behavior. I thought the Klumps were disgusting this last portrayal is the extremely offensive. But I want to know this why are black male actors, opting for these "female" characters? I was a huge fan of Madea intially, my infatuation has worn off because most of the characterization of these women is foul and anti-social. What is troubling is the need for these actions to channel there inner femme-fatal (excuse the pun)
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archcookies
Comment: correction actions = actors
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indipindintthnkr
Comment: I really wish Najee would use his energy to protest something meaningful to the community. When I look at that pic of Eddie that's suppose to disrespect 'black women', all I can think of is that 'black woman' on American Idol in the canary yellow Big Bird outfit and how she depicted herself for all of America to see. And that was not a movie.
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UPTO
Comment: I think he is picking on obese people in general. Look at the klumps...the jokes were all about being fat. He has a hang-up about obese people. If anyone needs to boycott eddie, it's obese people. When talking about degrading blacks, you can reach farther back than eddie, redd foxx for example...he really mocked lawanda page.
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WordUp
Comment: There is a problem with it. We don't see these images on the big screen of white women. At least, I don't know of one white film casting a single woman to reveal her fat body in the name of comedy. I won't pay to see this film. What is expected to be funny actually ain't funny at all.
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WordUp
Comment: casting a single "white" woman
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PgDn
Comment: UPTO,
My point exactly, some Black actors/comedians have had a history of disrespecting Black women for all the world to see. REdd Faxx did everything but call Lawanda's character a Black ni@@ger, my child was watching a re-run the other day and told me how RF referred to Lawanda's character as something he thought he's flushed down the toilet.
Martin Lawrence did the same thing to Pam's character - constantly insulting and calling her names; after awhile it was disturbing to watch.
Wonder what some of our Black psychologists would make of this "trend".
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Quietstorm
Comment: I saw the trailer. This movie doesn't seem funny at all. Eddie needs to move in another direction.
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archcookies
Comment: >PgDn That is the reason I stopped looking a Martin, everybody was way too mean and too insulting to really be friends and if you notice all of his "characters" were anti-social and confrontational. Most of these men in drag play women that are way over-the-top aggressive, foul mouthed, opinionated and in the case of Madea a "pothead" It seems to me that most of the comedy writing today is basically all "potty humor" and I don't know about anybody else but I don't find it funny and I won't go if they gave me a free ticket.
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bigheadbull2
Comment: Bad Selah bad, bad Selah LOL
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bigheadbull2
Comment: Shallow Hal with Gweneth Paltrow but that was an isolated incident
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DCGG
Comment: Co-Sign Archcookies...Eddie Murphy is wack...glad they protestin his azz!
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ChocolateBrownGal
Comment: >>>Bigheadbull...Remember however that Gwynneth's character in Shallow Hal is in fact the heroine in the movie, able to find true love despite her size and society's view of the obese. Hal's interest was based on a "trance". And none of Will Smith's characters have ever embraced a plus sized woman either, even on the Fresh Prince he chose petite women. And when the Queen was a possible love interest he dissed her cuz she was a big gal and a tom boy. But as Chocolate Brown Gal, I do get a bit offended that we rarely see brown sistahs the love interest in these movies...usually, we are seeing the lighter hued with straight hair and near white features. Their loss!
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ImJustAsking
Comment: Everytime I see a commercial for this movie I keep thinking what was Eddie and everybody on that set thinking when this was made? I mean, why couldn’t the woman chasing him be skinny? This plays into every stereotype of a black woman that there is. I just don’t see where it’s supposed to be funny. At least with Madea I can see the humor.
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Renetta
Comment: It is offensive to overweight women period of any color. I don’t blame them for protesting. It is a disgusting slap in the face to do this especially during Black History Month. We’re the butt of every joke now hah? First Michael Richards then paris Hilton now this bullshyt. Eddie can do better. Ever since that Transvestite incident he’s been playing these lame azz roles. This routine where he plays multiple dumb azz characters is tired – it’s played. Let it go. Have some respect for yourself. Start playing a normal black man again like he did in the movie Boomerang. Sick of black men in dresses – period. You don’t see Matt Damen, Mark Wholberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ed Norton or any other contemporary white male actors mincing around in a dress with a lilt in their voice. What is hollywoods obsession with emasaculating black men? I don’t get it and I won’t support it with my dollars.
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ChocolateBrownGal
Comment: IJA...I don't even find Madea funny...particularly with the poor grammar and mismatched clothing and giganormous breastesses. What the heck!?!?!? C'mon now!
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Gurlfrand
Comment: Funny thing about Eddie Murphy and these type of movies, I have never seen him married to or date women that resemble large size women like the one in this movie ad, or in any of his prior movies of big, large trashy looking women.
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Southernbelle
Comment: The promos make this film look stupid and not worth my hard earn. They need to be protesting the fact that no one can come up with anything original. Eddie needs to be ashame of himself, on the heels of his Oscar nomination he comes out with this dumb shyt.
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katgrrrl
Comment: How many times has Eddie donned a dress? I can't keep up. I think he likes drag so pretty much be himself. The Eddie we don't see...but Johnny Gill does.
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katgrrrl
Comment: That should be "he likes drag so he can pretty much be himself".
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One2Adore
Comment: This movie looks mad funny to me. I plan to see it. So what there's a big woman in it. You all failed to notice that there is a "skinny" woman in the movie too. Thandie Newton. She's the real object of Norbit's affection. Once again, folks, it's a MOVIE. I also didn't see a disclaimer stating it was based on actual persons. Some people are just too uptight. Relax, laugh a little.
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Southernbelle
Comment: Renetta "Sick of black men in dresses-period" I agree. They're all a bunch of closeted Trannys anyways.
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NYCsoul
Comment: Renetta> Your post was totally on point!
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MelodyCool
Comment: I'm glad they're protesting. It's disgusting how black men are the only ones who revel in denigrating their own women and love inviting others to do so as well. His career can sink in the toilet for all I care. I get so sick of nonblacks coming up laughing and discussing these types of movies.
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PRDC
Comment: All I can say is that body cover looks so real..with all of that fat. I don't see it as disrespectful...just fun...people are going to think whatever they want to think about you, regardless of the color, size and shape. In all races you can find the same type of people.
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nightshift
Comment: I saw the trailers, and it doesn't look the least bit funny.
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majones
Comment: I definetely see this trend of stereotyping black women as a real problem. My seven yr old son saw the preview the other day and said that even he thinks that it's cruel to make fun of someone because of their size. Eddie really has a problem w/overweight people. Plus, look at all the women he dates - they're damn near white and petite(slim).
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bigfriend
Comment: People always complaining about something. That gets tiring. This is a comedy, a fiction, and people are still going to go see it that movie is going to be funny! Can't they find something better to work on? Better jobs, less teen pregnancy, less gang violence something!
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MzTee
Comment: I take it for what it is -- comedy. Some of the humor is a bit over the top and gross, but I still laugh my butt off. And hell, I'm fat; however, I don't see myself represented by the movie's promotional campaign NOR do I see that image as representative of all big beautiful black women -- so I won't be out there protesting. A movie doesn't define me NOR create definitions/perceptions of people for me, unless it's a documentary. Hell, if I allowed movies to determine my perceptions of folks -- I would think all white boys under the age of 30 as depicted in those JackAss movies are stupid; that Middle Eastern Jewish folks as depicted in the movie Borat are incestuous, dirty, stupid and obsessive. Overweight people, regardless of color, are an easy target for comedians. No one objects to insulting overweight folks on the same level as insults hurled at minorities or gays --there is hardly any outrage. As another poster commented, Najee Ali nor the other organizers should protest this. Overweight people need to mobilize and protest this just like any other group that feels victimized when their image is attacked. My point is -- there is nothing wrong with protesting or boycotting the film. It's just the wrong group of folks are doing the protesting and it won't be as effective as it could be if it were sponsored by a group of overweight folks.
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McNasty
Comment: I'm not at all sure why we need to be looking at movies and the media for positive images anydamnedway. Look to your own immediate circle, surround yourself with like minded folk and quit complaining about every fukkin' movie that comes out. Even without this movie, big bird and several of the other overweight contestants on AI have already done big fat females an injustice and made you an even bigger joke if that's how you're taking it.
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sgrantla
Comment: Boo Hoo Hoo stop making fun of my fat out of shape aaasss! I'm just big boned. I like to eat. My doctor told me breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so I eat breakfast ALL day.
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musbdherbs
Comment: 'Nas...THANK YOU! Additionally, considering the number of black male working actors, are we sure we want to insinuate that black men dressing as women on film is a problem worth discussing? Compare the numbers of male actors who haven't "dressed in drag" to those who have and the conversation would end. I guess we should boycott the "media" cuz they paint black men as hustlers and thugs. Find another damn thing to boycott..crazy azz folk!
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Geno
Comment: Aren't most comedies really tragedies when lookied upon from a different angle? Hence the laughing and crying masks that symbolizes the theater. Most things we find funny are the inappropriate things of life. When someone falls out of a chair, we laugh before we find out if they are okay. We laugh at the exaggerated. Try to find the funny thing that NO ONE will find offensive in some way or another.
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dukeystick
Comment: I will be protesting cause that picture looks "jus lak my aint Bertha!"
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musbdherbs
Comment: And why is it so hard to stop the disrespecting of black women from certain hip-hop artists? I mean good grief w/all this talk of objectification, you would think that at least that area would be taken care of.
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jess
Comment: I've seen the previews of these movie twice and the only people laughing were white people. My personal opinion is that this movie would not be funny even if the woman chasing him was thin. I have no problem with men dressing in drag as long as the shyte is entertaining. This isn't. This is a terrible follow-up to his performance in Dreamgirls.
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gingerg
Comment: I co-sign Southernbelle. Eddie Murphy should be ashamed of himself. This mess may cost him the Oscar. What a foolish career move.
It's almost as if they have to remind folks that they aren't to be taken seriously. Didn't Jaime Foxx just tell folks that he's still a n****?
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bigheadbull2
Comment: Yes my diva but the question was what picture showed an obese white girl or maybe I missed something it was early when I posted. LOL never the less I would not have watched anything with her in it anyway she isfor lack of a better word.. way overrated as an actress.
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gingerg
Comment: I just wonder if black men haven't bought into all of the negative, derogatory and sexually offensive stereotypes about black women that go all the way back to pre-slavery times. Some act as though they believe all of those ugly things even though we are their wives, lovers, sisters, friends, etc.
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bigheadbull2
Comment: Here's a cause all the protesters can get behind. Pool all your coins together and run down to Jenny Craig and get a group discount. Honestly there are more serious issues to focus on.
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Calidee
Comment: Many years ago when rappers started disrespecting women, glorifying violence and the thug lifestyle, people said "lighten up, it's just music". Now look what we have. Many of the serious problems that we have today at some point was a little problem. I support this groups protest. And I don't think the protest is about this movie alone. It's about the entertainment industry's continued disrespect of black women.
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jazzfan
Comment: So Big Momma (Martin), Madea (Tyler Perry), Wanda (Jamie Foxx) don't do the same thing?
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Annisa
Comment: I am certain that there are many other pertinent issues that we can protest about, but this movie should not be one of them. Kids are still getting shot up, they're still being under educated, the minimum wage needs to be increased to accommodate one's ability to live and not have to scrape by. Let's put our energies into other things. It's a movie and if you don't like, don't go see it.
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McNasty
Comment: Calidee I was firmly behind C. Delores Tucker on her efforts to get that madness stopped and then when she sued Tupac that's when folk started saying lighten up. Yes indeed, look at it now. For the posters that keep bringing the black/white thing up - have any of you seen the most recent Krispy Creme calendar? Nothing but fat funky doughy white women so don't act like they don't know what comedy is we're the only ones looking to media/movies for positive images.
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HHCassius
Comment: I have found the previews largely offensive and am glad I never saw them in the theater with a bunch of 25/20s. But I still don't think you can lump Tyler Perry's depiction of Madea in with the rest. At least Madea had some important things to say, in the guise of comedy. Nobody's talking about Geraldine...I've always found depictions of stereotypical Black women as offensive. But the same people who are saying Norbit's just a movie would be out there protesting Shirley Q. Liquor...
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cornbread
Comment: NORBIT IS GOING TO BE FUNNIER THAN A MUTHA FUKKA. ALL YOU FAT AZZ OVERWEIGHT SLOPPY BIITCHEZ NEED TO PUT THE FUKKIN PORK CHOPS DOWN, BACK AWAY FROM THE BUFFET TABLE, AND GET ON A FUKKIN DIET. THEN YOU WOULDN'T BE SOO OFFENDED. STOP YOUR PROTESTING, GO EAT A SALAD, AND GO SUPPORT THE FUKKIN MOVIE YOU FAT BIITCHEZ.
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gingerg
Comment: Why is b*tch the first thing a brother hollers when he gets upset with a sister?
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SweetieDarlin
Comment: I too was for C. Delores Tucker's protests against depiction of women in rap. For all of you that think it's so funny because the woman is overweight, please realize that others are not making the distinction that oh' it's about a FAT black woman so there's a difference. Many others think that we are ALL loud and oversexed, not just the fat girls. And yes Martin with Shanaynay and Jamie with Wanda did the same thing, they just happened to be smaller. It's about the image, it is no accident that others rarely find us attractive and even some of our ignorant brothers don't find us as attractive as other women from other races. The constant push is to make it seem as if few of us are attractive and we are big,ball bearing bytches, loud and wrong and subliminally it is being accepted as the truth. And now you don't see loud fat chicks in any other race shown in the movies, even in Shallow Hal the character was sweet, giving but overweight, the same thing in Muriel's wedding, Georgy Girl and any other time a white woman who was large sized was portayed.
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gingerg
Comment: Tyler Perry has suggested that Norbit is an attempt to impact his numbers for Daddy's Little Girl. We shall see, especially since Madea is not featured in this one. I will still be looking at that sexy Idris Elba, though.
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ImJustAsking
Comment: sweetiedarlin and gingerg< co sign cosign cosign cosign. It just seems like people, especially black men, are not sensitive at all to offensive portrayals of black women and I believe it is b/c they have bought into it. And many black women have as well. Our self esteem used to be so much higher than white girls, now we're suffering from eating disorders and all sorts of esteem issues. In the media, We are either oversexualized or undesirable, and in this case, it's both. Eddie is free to create what he wants but I just wish he would find somewhere else to direct his ridicule.
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ChocolateBrownGal
Comment: >>>Biheadbull>>> the Jenny Craig comment was a RIOT!! I've got tears in my eyes....ROTFLMBBO!! Too funny!
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MzTee
Comment: No matter what image of us is protrayed on the movie/tv screens whether it be perceived as positive or negative is going to change the minds of those who already have negative perceptions of us. We have had several wonderful images of us protrayed on screen and we're still fighting and struggling for equality both in front of and behind the camera. Even those positive images of us that are projected in the mainstream, the media tries to seperate those from the rest of the us and make it seem like it's an exception rather than the norm. It is up to us to define ourselves NOT some movie or tv show.
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bigheadbull2
Comment: Chocolate I sorry. But on the real three years ago I was 400 pounds I have lost a total of 217(5 more from the recent master clease) and the only person responsible for that was me and my faith. The same way I got into that mess I knew it was going to take sometime to get out. I believe everyone has some merit to there statements but as for me I have always suffered from high self esteem and ain't no devil in hell nor a movie on the screen goin to change that. We can be as we choose to be and as a former obese person that bullshit line about I am happy being big just the way I am, is just that, a bullshit line. Let's get real you can be and become what ever you want so if one is tired of being tired of being obese or smoking or drink or hoing or whatever. We have the power to change and that's real.
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thebaddestchick
Comment: I dont think that the movie is all that serious. Also why arent we protesting other movies that have offensive themes... Im not offended at all because I have seen some loud and big women going off for no apparent reason. And they have an attitude. It is not like they dont exist. And there are some big fat families out there that all they do is eat and crash buffets. It is not like these women dont exist. To me a sterotype is when you classify ALL black women like that and not just one particular case.
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thebaddestchick
Comment: bigbull,
how did you loose the weight and how long did it take you?
No I wouldnt take my kids to see this movie. Why would anyone take their kids to go and see this movie?
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SweetieDarlin
Comment: We seem to want it both ways. People first say that they get sick of stereotypes but then when it's one that people can laugh at (a fat black woman so yeah she can help being fat so it's okay to clown her) it's okay. In that there are people who fit most stereotypes period, there are thin hoochie mamas out there, there are thug men out there, there are black women who have a gang of kids and no father, there are crack head out there so what the heck, why say anything at all. So a thin loud black woman should be okay too, since we do not define ourselves by movies images then all images should be cool and we should not look for quality black movies at all that depict ALL of us in a positive light. Again the other people are not discerning that it's a bout a fat, loud black woman so smaller woman are still okay, a poor image is a poor image, if you want o know just how images impact other people's perceptions you only have to go as far as the recent "Martin Luther King" party that the others put together and see just what they think of all black people, that's why any negative perception is dangerous.
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bigheadbull2
Comment: baddestchick...It took me a year and a half and the first year I lost so much that I ended up the four hernias. but I keep it off with food moderation and excercise. I went back to the police force in 2004 just to see if I still wanted to do it and the commander said I was in better condition than the 20 somethings. That made me feel really good. But child the key is moderation if I want a cookie I have a cookie just not the whole bag and I am so happy because for the first time I am in a non stretch clio size 14 suit. So that is my motivation along with wanting to be around when my three year old grandson grows up I am a clothes hound. One day there may be a cure LOL. Plus my mother died in 99 at 56 of complications from diabetes caused by lifestyle and she was a smart woman a phd in fact but the heart breaker was 10months later my beautiful younger brother 34 died two weeks before his 35th birth because he was so obese he was born at about 12lbs He had a voice that could make the angels cry too. So that is how I maintain. I will never be a size 6 but from a 28 down to a 14 ain't half bad and I can live with it
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McNasty
Comment: SweetieDarlin there are too many brothers that celebrate sisters for you say they prefer 'others' and don't find us attractive. I don't know where you live or what you're lookin' at but that couldn't be further from the truth. The fact is I see just as many fat loud white girls as I do black ones in real time. It ain't that serious for real - if you're single and looking don't blame a brother - try fishing with different bait.
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ChocolateBrownGal
Comment: BigHeadBull>>>> Congrats on the weight loss. A healthy lifestyle is worth its weight in gold. Keep up the good work!
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bigheadbull2
Comment: Thank you chocolate. I agree with Mcnasty I too see just as many nasty,stank yt girls and lord you can not even go to the ghetto mall (PG) without bumpin into one and she is usually attached to some scrawny brother with cornrows and his jeans hangin off his %*$. She can have him cause that ain't the type I would be checking for anyway. I have never given much thought to interracial dating it ain't my thing but I won't knock it if someone else gets down like that I was always told that if you want a job you gotta go where they're hiring.
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SweetieDarlin
Comment: McNasty, that is not EVEN what I meant, I certainly know there are a lot of brothers that celebrate sisters in fact I personally am very celebrated but I'm specifically talking about the fact that there is a subliminal messages being pushed that black women are not the idea woman, the white woman is more special to have. Personally every black man I know loves black women however we still some men who are quick to find the next available other woman and then talk about black women are loud, bossy and blah, blah, blah. Perhaps some people do not see the danger in negative stereotypes in movies and in music but I do because there are some weak minded individual out here. Why do you think there are men quick to say a black woman is a gold digger yet the biggest gold diggers out there are white women (and they get better gold because they go for men who really have MONEY)? Why do you think people automactically associate a description of a 'welfare' queen as someone black? I never said in the real world there are not loud fat white women (heck I work with a couple myself) I strictly talking about the negative in movies, TV etc. where some unfortunate people take what is fiction and azzume it is fact.
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gingerg
Comment: If you want to hear something scandalous, watch Black Men Revealed on TV One on Sunday nights at 10:00 p.m. These brothers will have you howling about a variety of issues, but it is so interesting to see how they think about a lot of things. Some of it is off the wall, but most of it is on point and touching.
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musbdherbs
Comment: It's always interesting to hear how black women think black men feel about them. Most of which is waaaaay out in left field. SWEETIE...you admit that every black man u know LOVES black women. I suggest you stop THERE! IMO it's a waste of time talking about what "some" black men do when u don't know of any who're doing it. I'm not saying it shouldn't concern you. But, I think TOO many black women harp on "what black men do" w/o having experienced it. Your girl tells you about somebody who knew somebody who dated a yt girl and BAM: now black men are fawning over yt women. Not that it'll make any difference to you BUT of the 40 or so young (17 and under) black men I am in contact w/ I have never heard of any of them desire somebody other than black. And I rarely hear them speak of the general "stereotypes" of black women. Do they call them "bytches?" Yes, I've heard and corrected them on that. BUT, none seem to harp on the "black women are loud, bossy, and blah blah blah." I REALLY think black women have perpetuated their own myths moreso than black men. We realize who u are...maybe you all don't.
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SweetieDarlin
Comment: I was not really trying to get into a what black men do, that is not might point, apparently I didn't state my point very well since two people have taken my comments as some sort of black man bashing issue or something. I was simply saying that any stereotype is dangerous period but maybe I'm wrong and everyone should do what they like, perhaps there are no image issues at all and it's my imagination...
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dcdouglass01
Comment: "...and continues to perpetuate negative stereotypical images that large Black women are sexually aggressive, unattractive, violent and promiscuous." This is the first I've heard of this stereotype.
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SweetieDarlin
Comment: dcdouglass01-Monique and that stupid show the Parkers and usually most roles she plays in the movies---
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bigheadbull2
Comment: I may get thrown out to the women's club for this but I too think that we read too much into the myths. I for one do not male bash nor do I hang around women who do cause yo blues ain't like mine so to speak. Yes I am having drama right now with someone dear to me but I would be less than who I am to talk bad about him to any one and there is noooo way I would come on here and discuss something that personal cause most folks apply the dr phil approach to everyone's problems but their own. For the record I have never watched his show all the way to completion the one time I did watch I got the distinct feeling of neusea cause in my heart I feel he is full of crap.
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MelodyCool
Comment: Many black men enjoy the %*$assination on the black woman's image and uses it to justify his lust and need for nonblack women. The sooner we come to terms with the fact that black women are solely on their own...then we will finally get our priorities straight.
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musbdherbs
Comment: bebe moore campbell hunh...thas wassup
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dcdouglass01
Comment: SweetDarlin, Monique may be one of those things: sexually aggressive. But that's only towards Professor O. But she doesn't come across---at least not to me---as unattractive, violent, or promiscuous.
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TesticAl
Comment: LAFFIN' MY FUCKKIN' A$$ OFF at cornbread's post! LMFAO!
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SweetieDarlin
Comment: Sorry dcdouglass01, I have Monique issues, first of all I think she's a well dressed, attractive larger size girl so I always thought the played herself chasing dude forever like she was too desperate to find someone else...I know it's just a show. Also there are some movies most haven't seen so it may not be truly relevant but she had the same performances in two other movies where so acted like she would whoop a man's azz (maybe even kill him) if he didn't sleep with her right now.
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dcdouglass01
Comment: SweetieDarlin, now I will agree with you that Monique the person/standup comdedian (as opposed to her character in the sitcom) has some of those more aggressive traits. But I personally wouldn't transpose her personality onto every obese Black woman I would encounter. As far as the movie she starred in (early/mid 2006?), read the reviews and wasn't the least bit interested in seeing it. But that had nothing to do with her weight.
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TommyStrong
Comment: not sure if anyone is around but all i can say is wow...some of ya'll are really upset about this issue...I can understand why...Najee Ali march on brother....we need to put a stop to this war...oh wait..no thats not it?...my bad...oh yeah...we need to stop gun violence in our communities...no?...oh I got it...while everyone is focused on the war in Iraq and the pending war in Iran no one is talking about the increase in AIDS and HIV in the black communi....thats not it either?...oooh...how some states like Michigan are quietly getting rid of Affirmative Action programs...I'm glad so many of you all are upset about that! Good for you! I'm mad too..its about tim...what?? so what the hell are my people so mad about???...oh yeah...a MOVIE... *sigh*...get a grip....choose your battles and use your energy wisely....SMH....
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Tosh
Comment: People if you are so offended DON'T GO SEE IT....just chill it's only a movie. Thanks for the post TommyStrong.
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Synthia
Comment: When I first heard about the movie, I was looking forward to it, thinking it would be funny. Then I saw the previews, and yeah, I was offended. He is feeding stereotypes of black women and it's heightened since that wretchedly poor actress Thandie Newton is there as the preferred woman and her looks lean way to the European side. Once again, light, nearly white and fitting the model image is the only thing desired even by a pathetic black man like Norbit.
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PearlJr
Comment: Norbit is racist against Black women, Black children, Black men and the entire Black race.
Our disrespect for ourselves has gone wwwwaaaaayyyyyyyyyy too far. It must end. I'll be reviewing this movie on BlackMediaReview.com
No wonder our communities and relationships are out of whack. Too many of us believe the hype and act out the same devaluing and disrespect the media has taught us.
Author, Black Women Need Love, Too!
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prettieyez
Comment: I tell you knowadays you can't say nothing without offending somebody. What ever happened to freedom of speech. It's only a movie and if he's stepping on some people toes so be it. I've been to the beach plenty of times and seen just what he's protraying. I hope this movie blow up at the box office. Get over it people!!!
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windwalker1313
Comment: Eddie's (and Martin's) loud, fat, farting, belching, ultra-horny, middle-aged female are tired and sickening. I personally don't know ANY women in my family who look or act like this.
It is disrespectful.
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cornbread
Comment: I HOPE THEY MAKE SOME MORE MOVIES ABOUT YOU FAT FUNKY BIITCHEZ SO WE CAN LAUGH OUR AZZ OFF.
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MelodyCool
Comment: cornbread, with too many of you running around looking like Ruben Studdard and other whale-like monstrosities we see on the news being cut out of their homes and placed on flat-bed trucks for transporation to hospital, I don't think you have room to talk. You will accept any nasty looking guargantuan as long as she's nonblack and can make you finally feel complete as men. The entire world laughs its AZZ off watching how abjectly pathetic you truly are.
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MissBee
Comment: Maybe I am missing something but I don't see this issue as a race thing. Just because it's about black people doesn't mean, to me, it is racial.
Eddie is just trying to make some money off of a genre that he felt appealed to black folk. Look at the success of Madea. Madea is really the only true black movie that drew some numbers. Good quality black films draw less people than Soul Plane did so no body wants to make them. We don't put our money where our mouths are. We talk a good game about positive black images but we don't spend the money to ensure that those few quality films that come out will result in more.
Though I am not in the mood for that crazy mess that Eddie is trying to pawn off, it is not something that we need to spend time debating on. As if that movie has some real bearing on how other races view us. Did so many people feel as strongly about Soul Plane? Where were the protests then?
This is another reason why white folk don't pay us any mind. We only seem to really get up in arms about bull crap and not things that really matter like why even the poorest all white schools fair WAY better than the same economically comparable black school. What will happen to our communities when the world has completely left us behind because we know that our kids can't compete in this global economy? Why don't we take our neighborhoods back from all that crime instead of being held captive in our own homes?
But, that is too hard of an issue and would call upon us to look at ourselves too much.
It's so much easier to protest and boycott (which people aren't going to do anyway) a dumb a$$ Eddie Murphy movie.....
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cornbread
Comment: ALL YOU BIG FAT BIITCHEZ SMELL LIKE POPEYES CHICKEN AND RED ROOSTER HOT SAUCE. I SWEAR I CAN SMELL A BIG FAT BIITCH COMING FROM A MILE AWAY. GOT CHICKEN GREASE, RICE AND GRAVY COMING OUT THE POURS OF THEIR SKIN. LOOOVE THAT CHICKEN FROM POPEYES!!
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MelodyCool
Comment: cornbread, you've been wallowing with "pigskins" so long that's obviously your flavor. Do ya thang bootlicker!
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