# You're Fat! Yeah? What of it? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 2, 2008, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679 "2008-11-02T04:45:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679/21 "2008-11-02T23:21:26Z")
> [@Mrs.Cake](#): > > I’ve also noticed that, at least on the boards, while it may be okay with some people for a woman to be overweight, it is _never_ okay for her to have “man hands”. Depends. If the woman keeps then in a jar on her desk, it would be a bit of a turn-off … 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679/22 "2008-11-02T23:29:12Z")
> [@Mrs.Cake](#): > > I’ve also noticed that, at least on the boards, while it may be okay with some people for a woman to be overweight, it is _never_ okay for her to have “man hands”. What the hell are ‘man hands’? And **S&I** , I didn’t know what you were referencing, but from the format and phrasing it was quite clear that those weren’t your words. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679/23 "2008-11-02T23:31:40Z")
I’ve had to say on occasion “I might be fat but I’m not a cunt” and yeah I’m a man. Cunt is a unisex term here lol. ---
**Author:** ![Jaglavak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@Jaglavak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaglavak)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679/24 "2008-11-03T00:26:37Z")
> [@janis\_and\_c0](#): > > And yes, for the record, I’m fat. And you can tell me so. Yeah, and bring it all right over here, baby! [Overweight and obese women have more sex than skinny types](http://www.livescience.com/health/081030-overweight-sex.html) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679/25 "2008-11-03T00:31:34Z")
> [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](#): > > Having dated more than a few models I find your use of the label “Thing” a little telling. What does your having dated models have to do with it…? (Sorry, I’m dense.) ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679/26 "2008-11-03T01:25:05Z")
> [@janis\_and\_c0](#): > > Now, I’m sure this has been done to death, but I posted this here because I didn’t want to threadshit. Linky? :: wanders off going “my girlfriend drives a Honda, doing workout tapes by Fonda…” ---
**Author:** ![Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamaika_a_jamaikaiake)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679/27 "2008-11-03T02:45:24Z")
Isn’t it kind of similar to how ‘Muslim’ is an insult now? Why is the default answer to deny it, rather than to question why such a thing should be considered an insult? ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679/28 "2008-11-03T03:24:28Z")
> [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](#): > > I would just like to add: > > To the beanpole dames in the magazines: > You ain’t it, Miss Thing! > Give me a sister, I can’t resist her > Red beans and rice didn’t miss her Yeah, but “…when a girl walks in **with an itty bitty waist** And a round thing in your face You get sprung…” ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679/29 "2008-11-03T04:11:30Z")
> [@Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](#): > > Isn’t it kind of similar to how ‘Muslim’ is an insult now? > > Why is the default answer to deny it, rather than to question why such a thing should be considered an insult? Yeah, it always bothered me how often the response to “Obama is a Muslim, eleventyone!!!” was “No WAY!! eleventyone!!” and not, “Who cares what he is?” ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679/30 "2008-11-03T04:23:31Z")
> [@Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](#): > > Isn’t it kind of similar to how ‘Muslim’ is an insult now? > > Why is the default answer to deny it, rather than to question why such a thing should be considered an insult? This was exactly my point. I am questioning why this is so. **Antinor01** Bar Hopping?? Hell yeah! Do you Kareoke? **Green Bean** I’d rather not linky here , because I do’nt want to upset the person whose thread I was going to shit upon. If you really wanna know PM me, & I will tell you. Thanks for all the feedback! ---
**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679/31 "2008-11-03T04:53:11Z")
> [@Mrs.Cake](#): > > I’ve also noticed that, at least on the boards, while it may be okay with some people for a woman to be overweight, it is _never_ okay for her to have “man hands”. Makes me wonder how the hell I managed to attract and date a number of intelligent, good-looking men before marrying one of them. Man Hands are definitely a deal-breaker. So is being Orca-sized though. Weight is a different thing though, everyone carries it differently so you have to take it case by case, within reason of course. Man Hands you either have or you don’t, there are no degrees. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679/32 "2008-11-03T04:59:05Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > Yeah, but > “…when a girl walks in **with an itty bitty waist** > And a round thing in your face > You get sprung…” See, this is why I never got why this song was supposed to be some “I like overweight girls” anthem. It always seemed to me that he was just talking about liking big butts, not big all over. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679/33 "2008-11-03T05:03:44Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > See, this is why I never got why this song was supposed to be some “I like overweight girls” anthem. It always seemed to me that he was just talking about liking big butts, not big all over. > > Oh well. you’re correct. That’s pretty clearly what the song is about. It’s still anti-skinny girl though, so maybe people are just focusing on that. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679/34 "2008-11-03T05:39:46Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Sleeps With Butterflies** > > \*See, this is why I never got why this song was supposed to be some “I like overweight girls” anthem. It always seemed to me that he was just talking about liking big butts, not big all over. > > Oh well.\* I don’t think he was necessarily talking about total size in that song but more along the lines of body shape preferences. I am pretty heavy, to be sure, but my body shape is one where I am bigger on bottom than I am on the top. I have an 11" difference between my waist and my hips, making me a pear shape. I still have magnificent breasts too but when you look at my measurements it is obvious that I have a bit of a bedonkadonk situation going on. I think that is what he was talking about in that song when he said “itty bitty waist” instead of insisting that he wanted a really skinny girl with some junk in the trunk he just meant your waist should be significantly smaller around than your hips. Or maybe he did mean that he really wants tiny chicks with big asses but that kind of takes away a lot of the fun in the song for me.😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679/35 "2008-11-03T05:44:42Z")
I never knew Sir Mix-A-Lot was such a polarizing figure. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679/36 "2008-11-03T09:08:07Z")
[For your consideration.](http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=2pW1BRiuwPI) ---
**Author:** ![quixotic78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3ab097/32.png) [@quixotic78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quixotic78)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679/37 "2008-11-03T09:57:27Z")
I guess I would be more tolerant of fat girls if there wasn’t that odor. You know what I’m talking about. Deodorant does fuckall against it, and soap is similarly powerless. It’s just omnipresent and invincible (well, I suppose a couple of months on the treadmill might do something against it). I’ve never smelled it from a fat guy. I don’t know why that is. Zaftig ladies, if you could get rid of that smell, I’d not have the slightest problem with your weight. But that smell is just nauseating… feh. I can’t get over it. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679/38 "2008-11-03T10:03:46Z")
> [@quixotic78](#): > > You know what I’m talking about. I, for one, haven’t a clue what you’re talking about. Please elaborate. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679/39 "2008-11-03T12:09:58Z")
> [@Captain\_Carrot](#): > > What the hell are ‘man hands’? > > And **S&I** , I didn’t know what you were referencing, but from the format and phrasing it was quite clear that those weren’t your words. Man Hands are a Seinfeld reference. Otherwise feminine women who have manly hands. They’re out there. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679/40 "2008-11-03T13:32:05Z")
> [@quixotic78](#): > > I guess I would be more tolerant of fat girls if there wasn’t that odor. > > You know what I’m talking about. Deodorant does fuckall against it, and soap is similarly powerless. It’s just omnipresent and invincible (well, I suppose a couple of months on the treadmill might do something against it). I’ve never smelled it from a fat guy. I don’t know why that is. > > Zaftig ladies, if you could get rid of that smell, I’d not have the slightest problem with your weight. But that smell is just nauseating… feh. I can’t get over it. I am really curious about this. What is this smell you speak of?. (I confess little experience around the morbidly obese, but I appreciate my sense of smell and have seen enough to have noticed this). And I do have a great story about the morbidly obese and weird smells but this is not the place for it, I think. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-fat-yeah-what-of-it/470679.md?page=3)