Kacchan:
Labels are so subjective.
One person might classify themselves as a BBW, but all three words in the acronym are open for discussion.
If I was a woman with a BMI over 30, but I felt horribly unattractive, then I might not define myself as a BBW.
If I felt fabulously attractive and identify as a female, I might define myself as a BBW but others might disagree with me.
If I was athletically built and very tall, and consider myself attractive but my BMI was less than 25, I might not call myself a BBW but others who look at me might define me this way.
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While we're on this topic, I see some people using a scale-based number in pounds like "220" or ""600" to classify BBW. While I think that weight itself could be a factor considered in classifying someone - a scale number as sole determinant seems so arbitrary.
I understand how we might use this to start our discussion on classification, but I always get the ick when we use a scale number to exclusively define terms like "fat", "big", or "chubby". Am I alone on this?
I agree with not labelling but 99 percent of the fat community do use these weights as a estimate when describing a bbw or ssbbw etc. Or if someone wants to date a bbw or ssbbw they usually look up a weight range.