But are you now not guilty of doing just what the anti adipose crew are guilty of- but in reverse?
What always gets me is if anyone calls a woman rude names for being big its the worse thing sliced sliced bread, and so it should be theres no excuse for being rude to anyone....BUT people call the slimmer ladies names like stick insected etc and that seems perfectly ok
During my adult life I have been underweight, normal weight, overweight and clinically obese. At present I believe I am slightly classed as overweight. I dont fuss that much about my weight but on the odd occasion I do feel the need to shift some of it. I could do with being a stone lighter now. I would feel a bit better about myself, I would be a bit healthier. As I say I dont fuss about my weight but I dont see any positive in being fat or overweight as I am at present.
I am very interested in this idea of thread after thread about people slagging off thin people and ranting about obesity.
Maybe the anti-obesity threads are in the Current Affairs forum, I tend not to go in there too often.
I agree however, that people are quick to point out that fat jokes/comments are offensive but somehow people seem to think it okay to call thin people names. This is wrong.
I have a friend who is naturally skinny. She troughs all the time, eats all sorts and does no exercise. When we used to sit in work having a break time cuppa if we were partaking of biscuits or cakes or something, then people would never say anything to me (what would they say? 'Oi, fattie, why are you having your third biscuit you porker?' No, that would be rude) but they would always say to her stuff like 'Oh my god, where do you put it?' 'You're so skinny, you cow - how do you do it?' 'How do you eat so much and look like that, you bitch? I hate you' etc etc
Commenting in a derogatory way on someone's size - whatever that size is - is hurtful.
as someone who falls into the catagory of a stick insect (as you so nicely call me) i think i am within my rights to be offended but i'm not i really couldn't give two hoots!
I'm 7 stone 2 n all my life i've tried to put on weight, i've put up with derogatory comments from school friends, work friends, family even the gp who's comment was 'oooo loads of women would love to be like you' would they? no actually i dont think they would if they actually thought about it.
its not nice to be called stick insect or snappy or have comments like hey watch you dont fall down that drain or dont stand behind that lampost we wont find you again.
if you want me to be perfectly honest i wish i was overweight cuz at least then i'd be able to do something about it, lose weight, join weight watchers slimming world, & various other organisations to get help but because i'm naturally thin i get nothing.
to me over weight people have a choice be fat, stay fat or lose weight, what choice do i have?
For the last time, for those who didn't gettit the "stick insect" comment was aimed at skinny blokes and women who slag off us fatties. I did mention my preference for women with a bit more meat on em but that is strictly preference. Indeed the fashion still appears to be for thin women, I read Kate Moss's comments in yesterdays press.
As for the possibility of my posting links to offending posts? Wouldn't that look like personal attacks on the OP's? But I can assure you hat the word "obese" is just as offensive to us fatties as "stick insect" is to those who mght be somewhat underweight. Also worth pointing out is that being too underweight is just as dangerous as being too fat.
Peace!
this bugs me a little because i dont care if someones fat,thin,gay,straight or whatever.
the most important thing i look for is that we all get on if we do then the next step is a lot easier.
if someone wants to label another then there are hitlers running around trying to mould the world to their ideas which usually are less then perfect.
fuck em.
No one is asking fat people to hide, or even go on a calorie contolled diet.
A hypocrisy-free diet would work wonders though.
Didn't he admit that pic was fake just before moving it to private? I could be wrong as I tend not to look at the archives, especially in the Cafe where it moves so much faster than current affairs. TBH I think I'll spend less time in here and more in CA's itz too emotionally charged on here. And you know how much I hate upsetting people.
So is this thread just a dig at one person then?
I can count up two threads currently running (and by that I mean on front pages) of here and in Current Affairs that pertain to size: this one and the jocular one about central heating and obesity.
So there doesn't seem much proof in the argument that there are lots of threads putting fat blokes down.
So let's please take personal stuff out of it.
The conversation about whether or not it is more socially acceptable to skit at thin people is however pertinent and real. As I said earlier, I think any derogatory comments about people's size are wrong and offensive - regardless of which end of the size spectrum you are on.
I ran a thread last week that got pulled off as it got hot under the colar.
I am no skinny person however im by far one of the biggest. I feel that it should all be about personality and that only HOWEVER some people do like skinny and some do like obese therefor, it should be up to your own judgement as to what you go for x
I have been with both skinny and fat and i have to say that yes some people look at fat people as nothing but that and vise versa! How about we remember we are on this site FOR OUR OWN FUN and not to judge skinny, fat, black or white people? If you dont like the size someone is then keep it to yourself and move on to what you do like however, just because you like the looks of them it doesnt mean that they will like you! Otherwise known as EACH TO THIER OWN!!
Happy swinging to all wheather your short, fat, skinny or tall just enjoy yourself as at the end of the day and one day we will all be the same...... DEAD!!!
personality is what i go for.
as i said in my earlier post i couldnt careless what someone is.
to much labelling goes on in life. sod em if they do that then they are not worth your time worrying about.
i really wanna post in support of BG but i do agree that there shouldn't b name calling wether fat or thin but i do wish to defend him all the same some days on here it can feel like digs are being made wether its just feeling a bit self concious of our size and feeling that we should stick up for ourselves i don't know but i do feel sure BG did it with the best intentions just not thinking through the consequenses of his comment i'm sure
big wobbly hugs BG
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