Bus-Size People
I'm honestly not sure what this editorial is trying to say. (Registration required, try bugmenot if you need a password.)
I think the writer is trying to be snarky and funny or something, but he or she comes off as dismissive and mean instead. I think the point is that we should tell people how fat they are, instead of being nice about it. Because that surely will help people lose weight. Because society right now is too nice to fat people. Oh yeah, that's the problem.
Fat's a delicate subject. We don't have fat sizes; we have "women's" and "big and tall," and then something called "plus size," which at least one youngster once misheard as "bus size." Jeans are not made "tent-size" for overeaters, they're just "roomier," as if room-size pants weren't large.
I think the writer is trying to be snarky and funny or something, but he or she comes off as dismissive and mean instead. I think the point is that we should tell people how fat they are, instead of being nice about it. Because that surely will help people lose weight. Because society right now is too nice to fat people. Oh yeah, that's the problem.
Fat's a delicate subject. We don't have fat sizes; we have "women's" and "big and tall," and then something called "plus size," which at least one youngster once misheard as "bus size." Jeans are not made "tent-size" for overeaters, they're just "roomier," as if room-size pants weren't large.
posted by mo pie at 1:40 PM
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Heh. Like we fat people don't know we're fat.
By the way, your secondary pages don't work in Mozilla. Don't know if you care :-)
I do care! I just don't know how to fix it. :(
I don't know WHAT s/he's trying to say. You're right, it seems a feeble attempt at snarkiness.
About the euphemistic clothing sizes: I distinctly remember shopping in the CHUBBY department when I was in elementary school. CHUBBY. So don't tell me we're euphemizing on the kind side.
"And don't gasp when you see an XXXL. Be honest: How likely are you to say anything about that person's size? In his or her presence, that is."
Right... because it's always been considered polite and proper behavior to comment aloud about aspects of someone's personal appearance, fat or otherwise??
I'm still kind of new at this, so I'm not exactly sure how to fix it. I think it's because there's no extention (like .html) on the pages. It might just be that you have to change your settings.
And now that I've typed that, I see that you did figure out how to fix it! Thanks!
Do not judge a person by their size. Being mean to a person because they are overweight, or because they are of a particular race or religion is ridiculous. If I were mean to everyone different from me (meaning gay people or thin people, or non-Christian people) then I would have missed out knowing some of the most wonderful people I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.
My family did not teach me to be tolerant, they taught me to be kind to everyone.
This is not a social skill people, this is a humane skill. Kindness to your fellow humans.
Would you dislike a cat or dog because it wasn't perfect? Remember, all living things have feelings.
I am overweight. I've been thin and I've been fat. Same person. It seems that there is always someone that will find something wrong with anyone. Which means, they have very little to think about in their meaningless little sick world.
i have one word for overweight people [i said overweight not fat!! the word is better sounding].anyway my one word GYM!i mean yeah i feel sorry for ya'll but do something about it other that talking about it! i don't like it when people die by being overweight, my grandfather did.
Oh yeah the gym because all fat people are just too lazy to do any thing. Why do you people think this. I mean its not like people are just so nice now. After all if I hear you have such a pretty face if you'd only lose some weight one more time I might just come back with yeah you'd have such a pretty face if your nose wasn't so big. Please who is kidding who people aren't nice now because its acceptable to make fun of people who are fat more so than someone ugly or rude or just plain stupid. So stay anonymous I have a feeling I wouldn't want to know you anyhow.
i know im fat i dont need people to remind me. its my problem not any one elses.
I'm a different anonymous, and excuse me? Go to the gym? It's like when you go out to eat, and a person who you find less that perfect, an OVERWEIGHT person isn't starving themselves or arn't eating a salad, you go, god s/he should go on a diet. Yet, if you see them eating that aformentioned salad they seem to think, ohh that person's on a diet.
Excuse me, that was a little off topic.
I remember a smoker making a comment about the comparison between overweight people and smokers, how it's alright to ask a smoker to stop smoking but then this man went right ahead and insulted an overweight person.
It's a never ending cycle, I'm big, I'm fat, it's not going to change.Everyone isn't going to suddenly become accepting. Especially in highschool... even the overweight boys find the overweight girls unnatractive. Joy.
Go to the gym, yeah, we're all lazy slobs that eat until the cows come home and never go exercise. Excuse me, but what a big fat lie!
I dont understand why people think it is alright to make fun of overweight people. I know alot of thin women who eat alot more than I do eat all day long and are treated 10 times better than me. I also dont understand when I am out in public and other overweight people put down their own kind. If you are overweight why are you laughing at me? I am 28 and I know I have my whole life to live I have tried every diet but I cant stick to one and I work night shift so it is hard not to eat at weird hours oh well I have developed social anxiety dis order from years of being mistreated and I really struggle just with daily living. I am ashamed as a christian person to feel so hollow but it hurts why cant people just leave me alone I dont bother anyone... Any reasonings?
Many non-overweight people don't understand that some overweight people didn't get that way due to eating. There are such things as hormonal problems that cause this. I've been on diet pills my entire life and in and out of gyms and it wasn't until a few years ago that I was diagnosed. And the words straight out of the dr's mouth was that people with this condition it's almost impossible to lose weight.
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Im over 400 pounds... im 14.... ill more ten likeyl die soon :]
heres hoping...
Anyway, I cant loose weight do to my thyroid, and becuse of the size of my stomach. :[
worst part about it...i tried for years to slim down...nd it was pointless becuase its IMPOSSIBLE to loose wight for me... if i wunted to loose weight at all id have to cut donw to 300 caleries a day...
and i CANT do this or else i strve myself nd i die within 2 weeks :]
so fuck you to ll the people tht diss fat people...
mmmmm think i eat lot?
A mouth full of Random Plls sounds AMAZING right now<3
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