# Does it bother you when companies use "skinny" to describe products? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 16, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-it-bother-you-when-companies-use-skinny-to-describe-products/571608 "2011-02-16T18:13:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-it-bother-you-when-companies-use-skinny-to-describe-products/571608/41 "2011-02-18T18:54:11Z")
Just as long as the three liter bottle of Pepsi is known as the “fat ass”… ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-it-bother-you-when-companies-use-skinny-to-describe-products/571608/42 "2011-02-18T19:13:07Z")
> [@Khaki\_Campbell](#): > > (are there porn categories for ‘skinny’ ? Yes. It’s called “regular porn.” ---
**Author:** ![Khaki\_Campbell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Khaki\_Campbell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khaki_Campbell)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-it-bother-you-when-companies-use-skinny-to-describe-products/571608/43 "2011-02-18T19:36:43Z")
_sigh_ So-called regular porn features “normal”-sized women (who, in France, make 80% of the population). Can the skinny and fat go back fight in their schoolyard yet ? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-it-bother-you-when-companies-use-skinny-to-describe-products/571608/44 "2011-02-18T19:38:17Z")
> [@Khaki\_Campbell](#): > > Can the skinny and fat go back fight in their schoolyard yet ? I dunno. Depends what a “back fight” is. Is there porn for it? ---
**Author:** ![Khaki\_Campbell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Khaki\_Campbell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khaki_Campbell)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-it-bother-you-when-companies-use-skinny-to-describe-products/571608/45 "2011-02-18T19:46:32Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I dunno. Depends what a “back fight” is. Is there porn for it? I’d show you in person, but taking your mobility scooter to the other side of the pond would cost you _big_ luggage overcharge. ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-it-bother-you-when-companies-use-skinny-to-describe-products/571608/46 "2011-02-19T19:34:24Z")
> [@Khaki\_Campbell](#): > > _sigh_ > > So-called regular porn features “normal”-sized women (who, in France, make 80% of the population). Learn to google. 26% of French women are overweight or obese by BMI (and 38% of men). They do have more underweight women than any other European country, though - about 6%. So 68% of them fall into the ‘ideal’ or ‘normal’ BMI category. Very different from the USA where 60% of adult women are overweight or obese, and 1% are underweight. That very small population of underweight women is disproportionately represented in the porn actress community though, from everything I’ve ever seen. And most commercial porn stars do not exceed a BMI of 20, to my eye. ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-it-bother-you-when-companies-use-skinny-to-describe-products/571608/47 "2011-02-19T19:52:43Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#): > > Same for people with disabilities - if you call someone disabled in my field, you’ll get kicked. Instead of saying “disabled person” they’re “a person with a disability.” I don’t see much difference, but apparently enough groups do that you never call someone disabled. They _have_ a disability but aren’t disabled.[/hijack] I’m surprised. A simple analogy: if you disable a car, so that the car is disabled, it can’t move, right? It can’t function as a car. But if a car has a disability (a broken taillight, a skinny driver, a Shit Happens bumpersticker), it can still function extremely well as a car. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-it-bother-you-when-companies-use-skinny-to-describe-products/571608.md?page=2)