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opposingtwilight -> -Not- another fat thread ... No, really. (8/12/2008 8:02:56 PM)

Being skinny is no guarantee ...



Alumbrado -> RE: -Not- another fat thread ... No, really. (8/12/2008 8:06:41 PM)

Driving carefully is no guarantee you won't end up in an accident either... but I wouldn't say it doesn't matter.



Kana -> RE: -Not- another fat thread ... No, really. (8/12/2008 8:10:53 PM)

But it sure doesn't hurt either...



opposingtwilight -> RE: -Not- another fat thread ... No, really. (8/12/2008 8:12:55 PM)

By -that- standard, not much of anything actually matters.

I just found it amusing, personally. I've read a lot of the "fat threads" on this forum and the usual suspects always claim that they are NOT shallow and they don't like slender women (its generally targeted at women) because of cosmetic reasons but because a slender woman is a healthy woman.

Yeah, I know ... Dead horse. This is me taking a couple whacks before I move on.



opposingtwilight -> RE: -Not- another fat thread ... No, really. (8/12/2008 8:14:05 PM)

It can hurt, depending on -how- a person is maintaining that skinniness.



fluffyswitch -> RE: -Not- another fat thread ... No, really. (8/12/2008 8:14:41 PM)

and this is surprising how? you can be unhealthy at either end of the scale and healthy at both. there's a lot of factors that go into it.



fluffyswitch -> RE: -Not- another fat thread ... No, really. (8/12/2008 8:15:51 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Kana

But it sure doesn't hurt either...


if the weight is kept off in a manner that maintains health, sure, but it can be just as dangerous to be thin if your eating patterns aren't heatlhy.



opposingtwilight -> RE: -Not- another fat thread ... No, really. (8/12/2008 8:15:52 PM)

-facepalms-

It isn't surprising ...



fluffyswitch -> RE: -Not- another fat thread ... No, really. (8/12/2008 8:17:09 PM)

i just keep seeing this study popping up all over the place like this is some new amazing theory that no one ever thought of before. i guess i thought this was pretty much established medicine.



Leatherist -> RE: -Not- another fat thread ... No, really. (8/12/2008 8:17:15 PM)

but it IS a pretty good guarantee that you will not break my bed. [:D]



opposingtwilight -> RE: -Not- another fat thread ... No, really. (8/12/2008 8:18:03 PM)

Thank you.



fluffyswitch -> RE: -Not- another fat thread ... No, really. (8/12/2008 8:18:13 PM)

when i break beds it's not my weight doing it...



aggressiveblkdom -> RE: -Not- another fat thread ... No, really. (8/12/2008 8:26:27 PM)

Hmmmm, I prefer a thick woman....definitely let's me know I am dealing with a WOMAN, not a 27 yr old and up who looks like an adolescent with over-sized tits. *shrugs* It's just the brotha in me, LMAO.



candystripper -> RE: -Not- another fat thread ... No, really. (8/12/2008 8:47:43 PM)

I am only vaguely aware of emerging science on the *health risks* of pretty much *anything*.  I guess I differ from many people in that reaching a very old age isn't one of my motives.
 
Pretty much, it doesn't matter to me when I *go* and I'm not too sure I can affect it in any event...I have a growing sense of a more mystical construct -- that people are infussed at birth with a life force of varying levels and in the main, they run out of life when the life force they were allotted has been expended (barring an accident or something).
 
Nor do I care as much as I once did what the f**k anyone thinks of my appearance.  It's becoming much more about what is pleasing to me...with a firm belief that it will also be pleasing to someone else who will be compatible with me, if that too is *in the stars*.
 
I do agree with the Op that it'll be fun depriving people of false claims when they get snarky about the obese....a group which faces unrelenting discrimination and has yet to gain any recourse.
 
Evidentially, we have a basic human need to *hate* some group...and as racial and religious hatred has grown less and less socially viable, the smoker and the obese person have moved to center stage help fill the gap.  Usually cloaked as *health concern* for the person or those near them...but that is belied by the very depth of the hatred.
 
I don't remember any level of *hate* for fat people resembling what is currently running loose -- apart from the *self hatred* induced in women who could not look like Twiggy, back the day.

candystripper



opposingtwilight -> RE: -Not- another fat thread ... No, really. (8/12/2008 9:19:43 PM)

You know, I'm a smaller girl and I absolutely hate it when I am approached by men based on the fact that I'm not a "BBW". I understand that people like what they like and so on but I don't think thats any excuse to be hateful about it or make a big deal of it. You can tell me I'm pretty without comparing me to someone else.



fluffyswitch -> RE: -Not- another fat thread ... No, really. (8/12/2008 9:26:32 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: opposingtwilight

You know, I'm a smaller girl and I absolutely hate it when I am approached by men based on the fact that I'm not a "BBW". I understand that people like what they like and so on but I don't think thats any excuse to be hateful about it or make a big deal of it. You can tell me I'm pretty without comparing me to someone else.



there have been definite times that i've wanted to whip out my medical records, but from the reverse of this situation. i'm tired of people telling me that i'm obviously ill or going to get ill when all of my tests show otherwise, just because i'm not a size 2.

if you really don't like me at my present weight, just come out and say it, don't patronize me with 'concerns about my health' when you don't even know me or my health history.



DomDolf -> RE: -Not- another fat thread ... No, really. (8/12/2008 9:31:58 PM)

Should anyone feel guilty for having the preferences they do? I don't think so. To knock anyone for any reason is not necessary.



candystripper -> RE: -Not- another fat thread ... No, really. (8/12/2008 9:32:20 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Leatherist

but it IS a pretty good guarantee that you will not break my bed. [:D]


Leatherist, I could quite easily find thread after thread in which you post pointless insults to women.  You seem unfamiliar with the notion of sexual attraction...it isn't ever enough for you to say *I* have certain preferences...you must go further and attack women who *fail* to conform to your preferences, and by implication, those who do find such women attractive.
 
It seems more about plain, old misogyny with you than sexual attraction, but hey, that's just my impression. 
 
candystripper



fluffyswitch -> RE: -Not- another fat thread ... No, really. (8/12/2008 9:40:29 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: DomDolf

Should anyone feel guilty for having the preferences they do? I don't think so. To knock anyone for any reason is not necessary.


here's my feeling on this- i agree, but i don't think it happens near as much as it could. we tend to make to make comparisons when we state a preference- if we prefer vanilla over chocolate, we (as a larger group) tend to (not always! not always! i'm making a generalization here but i'm not trying to make a gross one) say, i like vanilla, chocolate is just gross.

obviously we're not talking about flavors here but the idea's pretty much the same. i have no issue when someone says i like thinner girls if that's where it stays. it's when there's a comparison that makes it out like anything else is less than, that it gets sort of tricky. i have no problems with preferences, god knows there's enough people out there that someone will find me attractive-- i do have issues with constantly being made out to be somehow less than and/or disturbing because i'm on the flip side of the preference.

i still stand behind wanting my chocolate.



opposingtwilight -> RE: -Not- another fat thread ... No, really. (8/12/2008 10:31:56 PM)

Ice cream doesn't walk away deeply hurt if you say its flavor is gross.

I think thats the difference, here. I want someone who is capable of having some compassion towards others.



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