HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT "SKINNY"?
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MeIShouldB
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I'm curious, how does everyone feel about the word skinny. I am mixed, but I was raised with my black side (except my daddy) and black women take pride in being thick and black men love a thick woman. So growing up, skinny has become kind of an insult to women. When you are called skinny it's more like telling someone that they are rail thin and gross."Skinny" has a negative conotation in the black community, so as I have been losing weight and people have said it to me I'm not sure how to feel. I know most people, if not all, mean it as a compliment but b/c of what the word has come to mean for some people it kinda makes me uncomfortable. How do you feel about the word?
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Skinny does not have bad connotations to me. In fact I, personally, would prefer to be skinny. If someone referred to me as such I generally wouldn't see it as offensive.....of course tone and context make a difference.0
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I know how I feel about skinny...not sure how I feel about this thread...0
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I prefer the term fit if it applies. Skinny sounds too much like underweight to me. And unfortunately a lot of people of normal weight are considered underweight, because they are becoming all too rare.0
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I prefer thin or fit - skinny to me means underfed and sickly. But that's just me!0
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'Skinny' is a negative terminology to me. It's always been associated with thinspo/pro-Ana/pro-Mia in my mind.
I like 'fit.' 'Toned.' Etc.0 -
I prefer the word "tiny" to "skinny". The term skinny-fat and the idea of skinny models make the term skinny seem unhealthy to me. However, I want to be tiny! Growing up I was always bigger than EVERYONE. Sooooo. Tiny sounds awesome0
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Love this perspective as you know the word skinny is admired among white people. What's that saying nothing tastes as good as skinny feels. And how many desserts have the word skinny in them?
I think this is a great thought. I know when I lived in Nigeria skinny meant starving to death.0 -
I know what you mean about the black community and skinny but I think that is changing. I would never let a someone else decide what I should be. I'm neither thick nor skinny. I have a butt, I have boobs, and I'm healthy. What anyone else thinks is irrelevant. Skinny wouldn't bother me.0
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I get called skinny or tiny all the time, doesn't offend me.0
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I prefer the term fit if it applies. Skinny sounds too much like underweight to me.
DING DING MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY!0 -
I wouldn't want to be called "thick" at all, no way, but to me "skinny" is a heroin addict, a concentration camp victim, a person dying from starvation. Somebody with bony lumps of vertebrae protruding down their spine, visible sharp shoulder blades and hip bones, stick-thin arms and legs, thigh gaps, visible protruding ribs. I've seen photos of near-skeletal victims from Dachau and Auschwitz that looked like that.0
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I wouldn't want to be called "thick" at all, no way, but to me "skinny" is a heroin addict, a concentration camp victim, a person dying from starvation. Somebody with bony lumps of vertebrae protruding down their spine, visible sharp shoulder blades and hip bones, stick-thin arms and legs, thigh gaps, visible protruding ribs. I've seen photos of near-skeletal victims from Dachau and Auschwitz that looked like that.
okay then.0 -
Is 'badass' an option here?0
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Up until I was 18 years old, i was naturally thin. But like bony thin. I was about 104 pounds at 5'5 18 years old, so everyone would constantly point out how skinny I was and thought i was anorexic. I HATED being called skinny.
But now that I'm a regular curvy woman who works out and tries, oh boy do i love it when people tell me I'm skinnyhhahaha
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Is 'badass' an option here?
"Badass" is always an option!0 -
I would prefer to be slim that skinny. To me, skinny is underweight. But everyone has different ideas of what skinny looks like. I would just say thank you and leave it at that.0
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I wouldn't want to be called "thick" at all, no way, but to me "skinny" is a heroin addict, a concentration camp victim, a person dying from starvation. Somebody with bony lumps of vertebrae protruding down their spine, visible sharp shoulder blades and hip bones, stick-thin arms and legs, thigh gaps, visible protruding ribs. I've seen photos of near-skeletal victims from Dachau and Auschwitz that looked like that.0
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I like the word 'skinny.' I like the words 'curvy' and 'athletic.' 'Emaciated' has a bad connotation.0
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It was an insult as I recall it the first time I heard it. It wasn't meant as a compliment. I had bony knees and was called skinny in a derogatory way in contrast to my older cousins who were already starting to fill out through puberty. As soon as my puberty started kicking in, those insults stopped as I got my womanly thin veil of body fat and a little curves. I was by no means "fat" but I was just no longer "skinny" and both those cousins had passed through that pre-pubescent phase and endured the same "loving" ridicule. There were "skinny" boys in my family too who either passed puberty to become manly or "lanky" or "slim" because apparently the "skinny" label is too harsh for adults in our clan.
ETA: Now however I don't feel negative about it at all. If a friend of mine tried to lose weight and got to a size that I thought was on the low side of healthy and thus "slim" or "slender" I'd have no problem telling her "Hi, skinny girllllll!" with a little wink and I know she'd know I meant it in a nice and complimentary way. I don't think the term is as loaded as it used to be due to new uses like "skinny cow" foods and "skinny margaritas" and etc. etc.0 -
Is 'badass' an option here?
love it!0
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