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Originally Posted by jennaboo4u
Yeah, it is fucked up. But it's also fucked up that obese people are highly discriminated against too. It's also bad to generalize - a lot of overweight people don't do this. And I've never heard of a fat person giving a thin person a scowl and feeling vindicated. It's mostly out of jealousy.
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If I somehow indicated I thought this was something all overweight people did, that was not intended. Perhaps I didn't phrase something properly which made it seem I was talking about a majority of them. Really, I just meant that it's not like "fat" people are pure victims- they dish it out, too. Very often, this subject is pretty much a one-sided "fat people are picked on and are only ever the victim of discrimination/ridicule".
My last boss was an obese gentleman. He wasn't going to hire a woman (31, I believe) who was very physically fit, saying that "every time we all eat, I'll have to think about her going to throw it up". This was said after her interview. Had I not brought to his attention how unbelievably stupid it was that he said that, she'd not have gotten the job.
Once again, I'm not generalizing- I'm just saying it definitely goes both ways. He felt it was ok to say that. I informed him it was not.
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And how has this turned into a fat debate? You can't even see half of these women's full bodies.
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The whole idea of the site is that women should be happy with their bodies because "normal" breasts aren't the breasts of models. The idea of "normal" is stupid. "Model" vs. "normal" is a result of the backlash of "fat culture" against what used to be the "heroine chic" chicks who were disgustingly emaciated and rod-thin.
66% of the US is overweight, and 33% is considered obese; I don't think there can be any contention that there's a "fat culture" reaching out to give people shit who used to give it to them.
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Originally Posted by Crompsin
[Breasts are] not innately sexual.
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To me they are.
