Roseanne is fat. Roseanne has four children, an even more obese husband named Dan, and a latently lesbian mother. Roseanne is the queen of the cult sitcoms in the USA. What makes women of all nationalities-the rich and the thin inclusive - identify with this only too real, less than ideal figure? Roseanne bears the real face of emancipation: she relentlessly rules over her family, sells hamburgers and doesn't give a damn what people think.