I Love This Woman and Her Curvy Body

About

I Love This Woman and Her Curvy Body refers to an Instagram post by a man who claimed he loves his "curvy" wife. The post drew attention when it was written about by Buzzfeed. While some took the article in good faith, the article also started discourse online from people who thought the article proved that standards for men are too low.

Origin

On July 30th, 2017, author Robert Tripp posted to Instagram^[1] about his wife, Sarah Tripp, a body-positive fashion blogger and owner of Sassy Red Lipstick (shown below). In the post, he lauded his wife's curves, and spoke about his attraction to women who did not fit the social standard for attractiveness (i.e., not skinny).

|| I love this woman and her curvy body. As a teenager, I was often teased by my friends for my attraction to girls on the thicker side, ones who were shorter and curvier, girls that the average (basic) bro might refer to as "chubby" or even "fat." Then, as I became a man and started to educate myself on issues such as feminism and how the media marginalizes women by portraying a very narrow and very specific standard of beauty (thin, tall, lean) I realized how many men have bought into that lie. For me, there is nothing sexier than this woman right here: thick thighs, big booty, cute little side roll, etc. Her shape and size won't be the one featured on the cover of Cosmopolitan but it's the one featured in my life and in my heart. There's nothing sexier to me than a woman who is both curvy and confident; this gorgeous girl I married fills out every inch of her jeans and is still the most beautiful one in the room. Guys, rethink what society has told you that you should desire. A real woman is not a porn star or a bikini mannequin or a movie character. She's real. She has beautiful stretch marks on her hips and cute little dimples on her booty. Girls, don't ever fool yourself by thinking you have to fit a certain mold to be loved and appreciated. There is a guy out there who is going to celebrate you for exactly who you are, someone who will love you like I love my Sarah. || photo cred: kaileehjudd</a></p> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by ROBBIE TRIPP™ (tripp) on Jul 30, 2017 at 6:10pm PDT

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Today.com^[3] wrote about Tripp's post on August 2nd, but it was not until August 3rd, 2017, when Buzzfeed^[2] wrote about Tripp's post in an article titled "People Are Applauding This Man For Celebrating His Wife's Curves On The Internet," that the post gained increased attention online. When that post hit Twitter, users bemoaned the fact that Tripp was getting applauded essentially for being in love with his wife, a curvy woman, while noting that his wife was not very overweight, if at all. For example, popular Twitter user @OhNoSheTwitnt^[4] compared the praise the man was getting to the praise Donald Trump gets when he delivers a speech without insulting anyone (shown below, left). Twitter user @StewCElliott^[5] tweeted "The bar has been so lowered that "finding wife attractive" is now considered an achievement" (shown below, right).

As the article was mocked on Twitter, jokes about it manifested, often in the form of parodies of the article's title. Others paired the article's title with a different, humorous image (examples shown below).

Babe.net Lawsuit

Tripp later wrote a self-help book titled "Creative Rebellion," described on Tripp's website as "an avant-garde stream of consciousness that seeks to inspire creative minds to listen to their inner desires to create, to be disruptive with their creations, and to disregard those who don't see the beauty of their inspired vision."^[6] On September 18th, 2018, Babe.net wrote a post comparing passages from Tripp's book to passages from the Unabomber manifesto.^[7]

From "Creative Rebellion":

"Be careful and act swiftly as you operate among their spiteful hostility; their infection can quickly turn you into a diseased member of their epidemic of complacency and whoredom. These nasty symptoms of free-flowing hatred and negativity are ones that can so easily taint your own mind. Revolt against this faction's pathetic pornography and shatter their closed doors into splinters, exposing their pastime of staying on porches of criticism and enjoying lounge chairs of scorn. Their path is much easier than the one you have chosen to pursue, but do not be tempted by its hollow pleasure. Common minds critique, while great minds create."

From the Unabomber manifesto:

"It is true that primitive man is powerless against some of the things that threaten him; disease for example. But he can accept the risk of disease stoically. It is part of the nature of things, it is no one’s fault, unless it is the fault of some imaginary, impersonal demon. But threats to the modern individual tend to be MAN-MADE. They are not the results of chance but are IMPOSED on him by other persons whose decisions he, as an individual, is unable to influence. Consequently he feels frustrated, humiliated and angry."

Ten days after the review was posted, Babe.net^[8] announced that Tripp's lawyer had threatened to sue the publication for "targeted harassment" after the review. Babe defended their right to publish the review, saying "We will stand up for our – and your – First Amendment rights! You, the readers of babe dot net deserve to know that in our opinion, the Curvy Wife Guy's book sucks an entire ass."

The story was picked up by Buzzfeed^[9] on October 1st. Following that post, Twitter users swiftly began to joke about the lawsuit. User @pattymo posted an A Star Is Born meme about the topic, gaining over 130 retweets in 20 minutes (shown below, left). Buzzfeed writer Julia Reinstein posted a Roses are Red parody with the headline, gaining 6 retweets and 43 likes in the same amount of time (shown below, right).

TikTok Resurgence

In 2021, Tripp became popular on TikTok while making videos featuring his song "Chubby Sexy." Nearly all of his TikTok videos centered around his love of larger women; one such video of his gained nearly 1 million views and over 127,000 likes (shown below).

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