Socially acceptable ways of talking about below average looks?

[Nikki_Tikki_Tavi]

@Lasciel

Nikki, if it were any other poster, I’d agree with you, but this guy - I waver between thinking he doesn’t ever make it out into public at all, to thinking that he does, and actually says shit like this.

I’m not sure which is worse.

The more I read, the more I believe…

@kambuckta

If my memory serves me correctly, JohnClay lives in a part of our fine country where seeing people as depicted in the photo in the OP is not likely to be necessarily all that unusual. (Have I used enough qualifiers there??)

I, too, live in the Midwest.

Seriously, it seems to me like JohnClay sought out a picture of a morbidly obese person for the purpose of making fun of her, hoping that everyone would pile on and go “oh GROSS, I would DIE if someone like that were attracted to me!”, but if you all say he’s cluless and honestly that socially inept… I believe ya.

[jayrey]

@jimbuff314

Your “Power of a man’s tears” thread not generating enough steam for ya ?

Thanks for this, jimbuff314. I’d forgotten that OP’s name and you saved me from reading anymore of this drivel.

[JohnClay]

@kayaker

So, JC, do you see any irony in your reaction to a mentally ill person, given that others may be similarly reacting to you? Are you “better” than the woman in the picture?

She has a large pannus. What mental illness does that mean she has? Please be specific.

[JohnClay]

@Nikki_Tikki_Tavi

…Seriously, it seems to me like JohnClay sought out a picture of a morbidly obese person for the purpose of making fun of her,

I just think that objectively she has “below average looks”.

…hoping that everyone would pile on and go “oh GROSS, I would DIE if someone like that were attracted to me!”…

I was asking for “socially acceptable ways of talking” about her. And when I asked “What do you think about the photo?” I was asking for people’s honest opinions… I didn’t mean to influence them into being rude or whatever. I also guessed that perhaps some would say that if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all…

[JohnClay]

@kayaker

So, JC, do you see any irony in your reaction to a mentally ill person, given that others may be similarly reacting to you? Are you “better” than the woman in the picture?

Yes I am more physically attractive than her.

[Dewey_Finn]

@JohnClay

Yes I am more physically attractive than her.

Well, that’s the important thing.

[kambuckta]

JohnClay, you don’t need to talk about her. The lady in your link has one (or perhaps more) conditions that have resulted in such disfigurement. Why should she be a topic for discussion? Would you ask the same question of somebody horrifically burned in a housefire, an amputee or perhaps conjoined twins?

She is not just below average looks. She has a major disability. To ask about 'socially acceptable ways of talking about…(her)…looks" is dreadfully uncouth and most insensitive.

Take your belly fetish somewhere else.

[JohnClay]

@kambuckta

JohnClay, you don’t need to talk about her.

I asked other people to talk about her.

The lady in your link has one (or perhaps more) conditions that have resulted in such disfigurement. Why should she be a topic for discussion?

Well a lot of others replied to this thread. And some even thought she had a mental illness! Though so far they haven’t said what mental illness they think she has.

Would you ask the same question of somebody horrifically burned in a housefire, an amputee or perhaps conjoined twins?

Actually yes I was thinking of also including a burn victim’s photo but that’s getting off topic.

She is not just below average looks. She has a major disability. To ask about 'socially acceptable ways of talking about…(her)…looks" is dreadfully uncouth and most insensitive.

You just did talk about her yourself! And in a socially acceptable way…

Take your belly fetish somewhere else.

Apparently it’s called a pannus.

[therealyankey27]

@JohnClay

Apparently it’s called a pannus.

Damn my very minor dyslexia, it’s bad enough I suck at making graphs, but I swear you (and the other guy) said painus (tf2 reference.

[Charlie_Wayne]

@panache45

I love the way her eyes are blocked . . . as though nobody could identify her without seeing her eyes.

Ha! Ha! Ha!

Oh no! I hope I won’t get into trouble for laughing. I meant to laugh in a political correctly way. Honest!

She’s not ugly! She’s not ugly! She’s not ugly! I promise!

[Penfeather]

@JohnClay

Yes I am more physically attractive than her.

You have a wonderful personality :rolleyes: