From: ailsa@wonky.UUCP (Ailsa N.T. Murphy)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Fat Goddesses (was Re:  Of Many Things...)
Date: 26 Jan 93 06:56:56 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.193135.10546@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, kditto@nyx.cs.du.edu (Kimborly Ditto) writes:
>
> Is anyone else attracted to the triple crescent? The one I like has three
> crescents sort of woven together in the middle so that their horns stick
> out. I really like this one, because I really like the triple goddess ide
>
hmm...  haven't seen it and can't picture it, but it sounds neat...

> already wear a brass Willendorf goddess, and she doesn't raise any more
> problems than you might normally get by wearing a naked fat lady. :-> I l
> ve
> her, because I'm kinda shaped the same way, and she helps me remember tha
>  I
> don't have to be thin to be right.
>
yay!  me too!

actually, mine is a venus of willendorf inspired glass goddess (cobalt
blue, my favorie and person symbol, in glass anyway - gems it's
garnets), whom i refer to as the Big Boobs Goddess.  i gave orny a
larger one in the same color as an xmas present, and she is now hanging
from the rear view mirror of his car.  *grin*

i don't care if it rains or hails, so
long as i got my blue glass ailsa
hanging o'er the dashboard of my car...

*grin*

i liek images of fat women ( i NEVER call myself "overweight".  over
WHOSE weight?  over WHAT weight?  i'm fat, and very cuddly too...), and
one sees more and more of them lately.  i was at the ASB party at arisia
(a science fiction convention that was just held in boston), and there
were a LOT of really sexy fat women there, and usually my type is the
thin androgynous athletic type.  who said lace bodysuits were only for
thin women?  B)

pity one almost never sees contemporary drawings or artwork of fat
goddesses.  most of the goddess drawings i have seen are of lithe
willowy dears.  no muscles, no fat.  *sigh*  why do our deities need to
look like fashion models?  how come you never see pictures of teh
goddess as a PLAIN woman, for that matter?  or as a not-goodlooking but
at the same time not menacing woman?  when i picture my goddess, i see a
big middle aged black woman, with muscular arms and legs, and a good
deal of fat on her, who is beautiful because she IS, not because of any
perfection of features...  and i mean specifically big boobs, a big gut,
wide hips and a big soft butt.  and she's one tough old bird, too.  she
doesn't put up with much whining though.  she made me walk five miles
home from the mall once cos i missed the last bus.  i kept ASKING her to
send me a ride, but she said "tough shit, girl.  you need the excercise,
so move your lazy feet.  it's a nice day.  what are you complaining
about?"

> Anyway, I've rambled --
>
me too.  ain't it fun?  B)
>
> Marty Hale-Evans                                 M   @   *   O   %   8
>
> 89 Mass. Ave., Ste. 199, Boston, MA 02115       \|/ \|/ \|/ \|/ \|/ \|/ \

hey, wait a minute!  i've sent you email before, i remember those
flowers!  in fact, i think i flamed you for something...  somethign
political, i'm sure.  dunno what tho.  'twas a logn time ago...
something about feminism, i think.

all these bostonians!  yay!

                                        -ailsa

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