I'm fat and...

In a community elsewhere someone posted how they liked that Mo'Nique said in her movie "Phat Girlz", "I'm not fat...I'm sexy succulent."

I agree that sexy succulent is a great way to describe oneself. However (my comment to the original post):

It is not an "or" thing. Embrace the power of and.

I'm fat and sexy succulent.

I loathe the "I'm not fat, I'm [fill in the blank}" thing. It perpetuates the notion that fat is bad and ugly and that the worst thing in world to be called is "fat", even if it is a very appropriate descriptor. Rejecting the word gives it far more negative power than reclaiming the word.

Comments like Mo'Nique's undermine the basic tenets of fat liberation, specifically, that being fat is not bad/ugly/unhealthy/unsexy and that fat people can be and are beautiful, sexy, healthy, etc.

And, yeah, Mo'Nique is fat. I hate cute euphemisms for fat. She can also be "sexy succulent" or whatever else she is, but it doesn't make her not fat, just like being fat doesn't preclude her being "sexy succulent."