# Weight and leg crossing preference **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 1, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-and-leg-crossing-preference/614448 "2012-03-01T15:20:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-and-leg-crossing-preference/614448/21 "2012-03-01T23:46:35Z")
I’m overweight and when I’m in a skirt, I cross my legs at the ankles. My legs aren’t fat, but they’re short, so the full leg-crossing thing doesn’t feel right. Right now I’m sitting in a half-lotus, which is probably my default seating position. It probably doesn’t look comfortable, but it is. ---
**Author:** ![spankthecrumpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@spankthecrumpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spankthecrumpet)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-and-leg-crossing-preference/614448/22 "2012-03-01T23:50:21Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > My BMI is around 50. Could you start an “ask the…” thread - if handled relatively sensitively by other posters that could be really interesting! ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-and-leg-crossing-preference/614448/23 "2012-03-02T00:31:09Z")
I’m pretty severely underweight (20 lbs. or so) and I cross my legs almost all the time. I get cold easily and I find that it helps. ---
**Author:** ![Michael63129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@Michael63129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael63129)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-and-leg-crossing-preference/614448/24 "2012-03-02T00:48:15Z")
I have a normal BMI (22.5 and fairly muscular, about normal body fat) and usually cross my legs, but in the lotus position or Indian-style instead of knee over knee (which I can do just fine, but I can’t do it at the computer since the desk/keyboard tray is in the way). Also, I am rather short, which may influence things. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-and-leg-crossing-preference/614448/25 "2012-03-02T01:40:06Z")
I seldom cross my legs, but I do enjoy crossing _other_ peoples’ legs. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-and-leg-crossing-preference/614448/26 "2012-03-02T01:54:24Z")
> [@spankthecrumpet](#): > > Could you start an “ask the…” thread - if handled relatively sensitively by other posters that could be really interesting! If you’re interested, feel free to PM me with any questions. I’m not shy and I won’t get offended. But I don’t feel there’s enough general interest in a fat person thread here–it’s not that rare for posters to be overweight here (at 5’3 and 300 lbs, I’m not even close to the fattest poster on the board). I don’t really feel that anyone’s experiences being fat are unusual enough to warrant a thread, though. It’d mostly just be listing shit we can’t do quite as well as thin people (or at all), or the discrimination we face. That’s not interesting or thread-worthy, it’s depressing. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-and-leg-crossing-preference/614448/27 "2012-03-02T03:34:19Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > Right now I’m sitting in a half-lotus, which is probably my default seating position. It probably doesn’t look comfortable, but it is. Agreed. Half-lotus is my default position too. It’s so comfortable and distributes one’s weight so evenly. But I only do it at home, or visiting close friends, lest the public see it as too freaky. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-and-leg-crossing-preference/614448/28 "2012-03-02T03:52:50Z")
Never been able to cross my legs for very long. They just don’t move that way, and my knees are stressed any way I do it. My joints don’t allow much twist. ETA: Overweight now. But even when I was kid nicknamed Stringbean it didn’t work right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-and-leg-crossing-preference/614448.md?page=1)