I have read and enjoyed the boards here for months…This is my first post.
It pisses me off everytime I see a post about an overweight person…and how ya’ll go on a rampage…
Because you are overweight~!!!
I am thin and tall.5’7" and 118 pounds.
I have lied for 20+ years on my drivers license saying I weigh 125 lbs!!!
Why??? Because I’d love to BE 125 pounds!!!
I dont dare go to the restroom like a normal person can do after eating in a restaurant
I may be throwing up you know…I mean after all…they have watched to see how much I eat…
Just knowing that I must be anorexic
After all I eat more then most men…God knows…she has to be bulimic and throw all that shit up!
Sorry folks…I eat and eat…no weight gain…YOU can watch me all you want…
Whisper about me…
But I wish you’d just … GET OVER IT~!!!
What I want to bitch about is all the overweight people who always seem to feel it is their RIGHT to tell me how SKINNY I am!!!
(I prefer the word THIN*)
I would NEVER say to an overweight person…Oh my Gosh…You are sooooooooooooo FAT~!
What gives them the right to think they for whatever reason…THEY can say to me…
YOU are soooooooooooooo skinny~!
I am 45 years old…and just once…wish I had the guts to say
No…I am not skinny…It is you that is too FAT~!
I am sick of hearing how overweight people try and try to lose…
and how “lucky” I am…
YOU overweight people…have a lot of guts…I have to give you that…
Leave us skinny people alone…
Somehow…I think by putting us down…
You are trying to make yourself feel better…
Does it work?!?!?!?!?!?
(For some odd reason…Its almost always women who do this!)
In our society, skinny is often considered a compliment. That’s why people don’t seem to think it rude to call you skinny to your face, they think they’re complimenting you.
I know what you mean. Almost every day i get told by one of my friends that i need to eat more or I’m all skin and bone and lots of other things that are undeniably offensive but nobody seems to think anything of it. I’m 5"7 too but roughly 100lbs (I was last time i weighed myself, if it’s any different now it’ll be a bit more. I don’t weight myself that often because i don’t really care. If i gained 2 stone i wouldn’t do anything to shift it unless it was all on m stomach and i had a pot belly or something.)
What annoys me most about it is that they see me eat every day and they know i eat more than them so when they say that i should eat more in a concerned voice I wonder exactly what it is they see when they watch me eat a big sandwich, chocolate bars, cake and god knows what else for lunch safe in the knowledge that I’m not going to go and throw it up later. I’ve not been sick for 6 years. One of them insisted the other day that i would not be able to show them any evidence that i have fat in my body. I don’t know what is wrong with them, I’m a living breathing human being who would be dead or unealthy if i didn’t have any.
What annoys me most about the whole thing is that lots of women seem to think that thin people aren’t realistic or… ‘natural’, i suppose. They seem to believe that it’s always unhealthy to be slim and that it never happens without being anorexic or having a similar disorder. That said, i of course have nothing against any people because of their size, they have to piss me off before i hate them. Boring rant over.
Well, I’m also on the smallish side, and honestly I’ve heard bitchy comments from people of all sizes - typically much LESS bitchy from women who are larger. I imagine most large people get rude comments about their size so they know how hurtful it can be.
Anyhow - just goes to show that people can be assholes regardless of their size and that insulting someone is mean no matter how big they are.
So it pisses you off that people get all worked up whenever someone feels they have the right to comment on someone else’s weight? Followed by eight paragraphs of ranting of how rude it is to comment on how skinny you are? Am I missing something?
My husband has been called “skinny” by some people, though I think “slender” fits better. Largely because he is tall, so the fact that he’s slender (but muscular) stands out even more.
I’m about ten pounds overweight right now, enough to be noticeable, yet neither one of us comments on the other’s weight unless it’s in an obviously gently teasing manner, or complimentary. (I have more curves in places now.)
The only other reason I commented on my husband’s weight was after he’d been quite ill, unable to keep food down, and had lost about 10 pounds. THEN I teased him that he’d be getting large portions of high calorie rich food, which I’d gladly hand feed him to get them away from me.
Look, y’all have been around long enough to know that not just any irony meter will do. Next time order the Acme Double-Feedback Oscillating Irony Meter with the ground wire. Sheesh!
Actually, I agree with the OP. Rudeness is rudeness, and it’s perfectly legit to rant about rude comments on your size, whether that size is big or little. The word “skinny” is NOT a complimentary word: it’s one step above scrawny.
Some possible comebacks to people saying, “You’re so skinny!”
The Miss Manners approach: “Excuse me?!”
The guilt-trip approach: break down in sobs until you can muster enough coherence to say, “The doctors say the tumor has spread!”
The let-you-in-on-a-secret approach: lean in close and whisper, “It’s the tapeworm diet. Works great!”
The back-atcha approach: “That I am, tubby. That I am.”
reason…Its almost always women who do this!)