Thread: Hey, Skinny

am i the only one with deja vu here?

Cara does live in Finland though. Maybe it's different there.

People should just refrain from making unwelcome comments about a persons appearance, full stop. I get it with my height and weight all the time. Now, when someone comes out with the obvious but still irritating "you're so tall", I give them a steady look as if I'm expecting them to say something else. Because why the fuck would you say just that? Because you have no social skills, that's why.

we had an incident at work, where someone made a comment about a skinny person, and she took offense and went on this tirade about how its socially acceptable to be mean to skinny people. She sat down at morning tea and had something to eat, which was a very rare occurence and this other persone was quite shocked to see her eat. She never meant anything mean by it. It was obviouslyl a touchy issue though, because it went on for days.
Never having been a skinny person, or even a normal sized person, i can't pretend to understand what its like
Really we should just embrace the beauty of each and everyone of us, no matter what their shape or size

I also have people pointing out how tall I am. Its just bizarre. Its like "Well thanks for pointing that out, because i was wondering why my head was so far away from the ground".

hahaha fruity that's a fricking awesome comeback that i'm definitely going to use!

Originally Posted by phrogget

Clothes in our shops start at size 8. If you're an adult, and you're smaller than that, and over about 5 foot, you're ill, end of. They go up generally in some shops to a size 18. (16 in most high street stores).
Overweight people are made to feel so comfortable, that they can't even buy clothes in a normal store.

Yeah but doesn't the same work in an opposite way, too? If you're above sizes 16/18 you're bound to be ill, right? Now I'm not 100 % certain of this, but if you can go make an assumption like that of skinny people, can't I make one of fat people?? No offence, anyone.

Hahahahaha do you not think the link between being overweight and unhealthy has already been made? You have all sorts of government initiatives and national campaigns for people to lose weight and get healthier. I haven't seen any such thing trying to get skinny people to put on weight though.

Of course it has, just not in this particular conversation.

Look, it's always rude. You don't go judging fat people's eating habits, so why is it okay to judge skinny people's eating habits? Serious overweight is even worse for health than serious underweight. Same applies to adults' smoking habits. We know it's bad for us, but it's our choice. So shut up about it!

Tons of people judge fat peoples eating habits.

I spent years skipping meals to avoid eating in public just to avoid people seeing me eat and thinking "oh look, the fatty is eating again"

One thing I don't understand is how some super skinny people will look at someone that's overweight and say, "Geez, stop eating and start working out. Then you'll lose weight," and then in the same breath will ask people to lay off how skinny they are because they just can't help it.

I've been skinny and I've been fat, so I don't really judge anyone's weight. I will say that I was never skinny without working for it, though, so I can't fully understand how that side of it feels.