# The dangers of stretch marks and loose skin should be emphasised more. Also, fuck anorexics. **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 8, 2012, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dangers-of-stretch-marks-and-loose-skin-should-be-emphasised-more-also-fuck-anorexics/640417 "2012-11-08T22:51:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![al27052](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@al27052](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/al27052)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dangers-of-stretch-marks-and-loose-skin-should-be-emphasised-more-also-fuck-anorexics/640417/61 "2012-11-19T15:32:40Z")
> [@brazil84](#): > > Win what? You weren’t trying to win something? ---
**Author:** ![al27052](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@al27052](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/al27052)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dangers-of-stretch-marks-and-loose-skin-should-be-emphasised-more-also-fuck-anorexics/640417/62 "2012-11-19T15:37:21Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Hate? No hate, just ridicule which you specifically OK’d. Got our terms straight? It doesn’t bother me for myself. I’m pretty capable of absorbing abuse and surviving, particularly on this subject, you know? It bothers me for _them_. What is going on with such a person, 200 pounds overweight, can’t even have sex anymore because of their weight, even when they want to, but goes out of their way to personally attack me verbally when I talk about the results of my dietary experiments and research? That’s a little scary. There’s something pretty negative happening there, either a lack of self-awareness, or some serious self-loathing, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dangers-of-stretch-marks-and-loose-skin-should-be-emphasised-more-also-fuck-anorexics/640417/63 "2012-11-19T15:38:34Z")
> [@al27052](#): > > You weren’t trying to win something? Ummm, I was trying to win when I bought a lottery ticket the other day. Anyway, I’m not interested in trying to tease out the meaning of your cryptic questions. Please just make your point, if you have one to make. TIA. ---
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dangers-of-stretch-marks-and-loose-skin-should-be-emphasised-more-also-fuck-anorexics/640417/64 "2012-11-19T15:42:08Z")
> [@al27052](#): > > It bothers me for _them_. Lol, it’s nice to know how CONCERNED you are. Here’s an idea: Let’s start a thread where anyone who is overweight can say so. You will agree to give $50 towards a gym membership to one overweight person chosen at random from the thread postings. That way everyone will know how CONCERNED you are for their well-being. Ok? ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dangers-of-stretch-marks-and-loose-skin-should-be-emphasised-more-also-fuck-anorexics/640417/65 "2012-11-19T15:50:07Z")
> [@brazil84](#): > > …After having studied these issues for a few months now, I am starting to believe that unsolicited diet bragging/advice/evanglism is counter-productive, not to mention immature. Oops. Guilty as charged. Hmn… the nature of, and the parallels between diet evangelism and religious evangelism is an interesting phenomenon in its own right. I’ll start a thread about it, if you don’t mind ? ---
**Author:** ![al27052](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@al27052](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/al27052)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dangers-of-stretch-marks-and-loose-skin-should-be-emphasised-more-also-fuck-anorexics/640417/66 "2012-11-19T15:51:43Z")
> [@brazil84](#): > > Lol, it’s nice to know how CONCERNED you are. Here’s an idea: Let’s start a thread where anyone who is overweight can say so. You will agree to give $50 towards a gym membership to one overweight person chosen at random from the thread postings. That way everyone will know how CONCERNED you are for their well-being. Ok? Actually, here’s the thing…I WOULD do it. You don’t understand me at all, if you guessed that I wouldn’t. For that matter, I once paid someone $25 just to read a book about nutrition and give a book report to a online forum where I was in the thick of a discussion about nutrition. He never read it, and I never got my money back either, IIRC, but at least I cared enough to try. ---
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dangers-of-stretch-marks-and-loose-skin-should-be-emphasised-more-also-fuck-anorexics/640417/67 "2012-11-20T01:21:41Z")
> [@al27052](#): > > Actually, here’s the thing…I WOULD do it. Ok, I started a thread asking for participants. > **[Who Is Interested in Getting $50 Towards a Gym Membership?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=672905)** > > In another thread which concerned diet and weight loss, al27052 (ETA: seems to have) indicated his concern for other posters who were not thin like he apparently is. I challenged him to demonstrate his concern by giving $50 to a randomly chosen... ---
**Author:** ![al27052](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@al27052](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/al27052)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dangers-of-stretch-marks-and-loose-skin-should-be-emphasised-more-also-fuck-anorexics/640417/68 "2012-11-20T04:16:59Z")
> [@brazil84](#): > > Ok, I started a thread asking for participants. > > [Who Is Interested in Getting $50 Towards a Gym Membership? - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=672905) Whatever makes you happy. ---
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dangers-of-stretch-marks-and-loose-skin-should-be-emphasised-more-also-fuck-anorexics/640417/69 "2012-11-26T10:28:53Z")
> [@al27052](#): > > Whatever makes you happy. Yes, it makes me happy. Since there’s been only one entrant, there is no need for a random lottery approach. I hereby invite you to put your money where your mouth is and send $50 to **IceQube** towards a gym membership. ---
**Author:** ![al27052](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@al27052](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/al27052)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dangers-of-stretch-marks-and-loose-skin-should-be-emphasised-more-also-fuck-anorexics/640417/70 "2012-11-26T15:20:03Z")
> [@brazil84](#): > > Yes, it makes me happy. Since there’s been only one entrant, there is no need for a random lottery approach. I hereby invite you to put your money where your mouth is and send $50 to **IceQube** towards a gym membership. Again, whatever makes you happy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dangers-of-stretch-marks-and-loose-skin-should-be-emphasised-more-also-fuck-anorexics/640417.md?page=3)