gbo gbo (bigs) gurls...?

Hey there! Sure u had excellent Christmas celebrations. I am also sure that goin by the hype created over the yoruba (subtitled) movie 'Jenifa', you understand my title. Well something happened to me yesterday- and no it wasn't indigestion- and for a few minutes I wasnt sure how to take it until I really thought about it and realised I liked the 'lesson' from it. Before I continue, I want you to know that in my opinion and in the opinion of some other people as well, I am slim but in the opinion of some others (being my mum), I am just too thin! Anyway, so I was walking back home from some shop where I had gone to get something to use to prepare my special Christmas jollof rice and I was getting my usual admiring glances (come on, dont hate, just claim it for me this one time!) and then, there were these two guys looking at me as well. I had taken their look to be the usual until I looked closely at one of the faces and realised it was tilted a little towards disgust! I did a quick mental check (did I fall in some poop on my way? not that I recalled; had my button snapped? nah; what then...?). I kept walking and then I heard him say to his pal (or whoever he was) albeit in pidgin 'Wetin I wan hol for inside this one? Men, I prefer the 'full' ones o.' For a nano second i was like 'what?'(of course just in my head, I couldnt actually say that to him). And I thought of it all the way back home. But by the time some of the smell of the thyme, curry, onions and other 'serenren' in my jollof had found its way into my nostrils and hence my head (by the way, thats some hint for u-whenever you vexing- cook! well, at least cook jollof rice!), I started to think of it in another light. I thought isint it nice not to have another cliche with men liking only slim women? I am guessing this is a well known fact since Nigerian men were chosen to be the characters in the movie 'Phat Girls'. I think thats a plus to being a Nigerian (in Nigeria). Thats not to say we begin swallowing everything we can set our eyes and hands on, but to let the genuinely big women remember that they are just as beautiful as the next woman. I think Naija 'big' men have somehow come to the truth of the situation because I have lost count of how many times I have seen pot-bellied men strutting their stuff all over the place and damning it all, some times they even...(forgive me-I am digressing). So I hereby christen the Nigerian woman (tall, short, slim, thin, big, fat-whatever anyone has chosen to term or describe you)-BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!