Why is it ok to bash skinny people but not fat people?!
Today a couple of my coworkers were talking about a woman at their gym who was "SCARY SKINNY."
I called them on it...and they went on to justify it by saying "no...she IS. She looks GROSS & UNHEALTHY!"
WHY is this type of trash talk ok? You never hear people say "Wow that chick is SCARY FAT! She looks GROSS & UNHEALTHY." Yet skinny bashing is perfectly ok in our culture!
Yes, you CAN be too unhealthily skinny. But it is WAAAY more common to be unhealthily fat. Yet it is NOT OK to say ANYTHING bad about being overweight, just ok to bash chicks for being too skinny.
We SHOULD live in a world where noone is talked badly about, yet at the same time it is ok to be MORE HONEST about people who are unheathy in a RESPECTFUL tone (I am over the whole "I LOVE MY CURVES (read:fat), and I NEVER WANT TO CHANGE!!").
BEING UNHEALTHY IS UNHEALTHY. :explode:
Discuss: why is it OK to bash skinny people, but not even SUGGEST being overweight is unhealthy too?
I called them on it...and they went on to justify it by saying "no...she IS. She looks GROSS & UNHEALTHY!"
WHY is this type of trash talk ok? You never hear people say "Wow that chick is SCARY FAT! She looks GROSS & UNHEALTHY." Yet skinny bashing is perfectly ok in our culture!
Yes, you CAN be too unhealthily skinny. But it is WAAAY more common to be unhealthily fat. Yet it is NOT OK to say ANYTHING bad about being overweight, just ok to bash chicks for being too skinny.
We SHOULD live in a world where noone is talked badly about, yet at the same time it is ok to be MORE HONEST about people who are unheathy in a RESPECTFUL tone (I am over the whole "I LOVE MY CURVES (read:fat), and I NEVER WANT TO CHANGE!!").
BEING UNHEALTHY IS UNHEALTHY. :explode:
Discuss: why is it OK to bash skinny people, but not even SUGGEST being overweight is unhealthy too?
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Umm woot . .
This convo came up today at work. . people have been saying how much weight I have lost . .but I then ask them why they didn't say anything to me back then. . every person said that they didn't want to hurt my feelings!
But looking back. . .I think it might have been the push I needed . .0 -
Who said it was okay? Equal opportunity bashing for all!!0
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It's really honestly not.
Btw... if you read your OP, it's kind of rude and judgey itself.0 -
WHY is this type of trash talk ok? You never hear people say "Wow that chick is SCARY FAT! She looks GROSS & UNHEALTHY."
I'm not sure where you live, but I've heard people talk like that many times.1 -
WHY is this type of trash talk ok? You never hear people say "Wow that chick is SCARY FAT! She looks GROSS & UNHEALTHY." Yet skinny bashing is perfectly ok in our culture!
Do you live under a rock? You hear that ALL the time.
The fact of the matter is no it is not right to bash skinny or fat people....BUT it happens all the time to both people. Good job on actually doing exactly what you are complaining about in your own post, btw!1 -
People bash fat people all the time, so I don't really get your post.
Even my coworkers will go on and on about how gross some of the fat customers are, and then if I say something about how I take offense to it as I'm pretty much the same size, they just go "Oh not you, we love you". As if that makes sense. Haha.0 -
WHY is this type of trash talk ok? You never hear people say "Wow that chick is SCARY FAT! She looks GROSS & UNHEALTHY."
I'm not sure where you live, but I've heard people talk like that many times.
Yup, me too.0 -
old thread is old.0
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Be lean with a lot of muscle...then you can just bash everyone...0
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I've heard plenty of both skinny and fat-bashing. I've definitely been guilty of it in the past but try really hard not to do it. People are very judgemental. I find that even though it goes on people are much more open about telling you if they think you are getting too skinny but won't say it (to your face) if you are overweight0
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Who said it was okay? Equal opportunity bashing for all!!
This. I bash skinny and fat people equally.0 -
I hate everyone equally.0
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Whaaaaat? I make fun of fat people all the time, I don't know what you're talking about.0
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It is NOT okay to bash skinny people OR fat people. Why do people think it's okay to bash fat people? Why do they think it's okay to bash skinny people? It.Is.NOT.
*SMH* this whole bashing society is getting on my nerves.0 -
I guess in the same way that it's ok to bash white folks, but not people of color....as in, the one group was bashed for so long that now we have switched gears?
Personally, I don't think it's cool to bash anyone.0 -
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I hate everyone equally.
Except me. She hates me most cause I'm the best.0 -
ONE! ONE failed thread! AH HA HA HA hAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA0
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Be lean with a lot of muscle...then you can just bash everyone...
With your lean, muscled fists!0 -
Bashers gonna bash.0
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True story.I hate everyone equally.
Except me. She hates me most cause I'm the best.0 -
It's not ok to bash anyone!0
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Its ok to bash everyone as long as they don't hear you.0
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Personally... I hear way more "fat bashing" than "skinny bashing". It's not right for either one... but, I don't see anyone discriminating.... it just may be different kids of bashing.0
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I hate everyone equally.
That's only fair.0 -
People usually bash on those who they aren't frightened of. They suspect that the scrawny people can't whoop their *kitten*, so they talk trash without hesitation.0
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Physically a fat person can bash a skinny person much easier if they can catch them.0
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saying a skinny person looks "scary unhealthy" is a whole lot different than people shouting things at fat people as they're walking down the street and people making "mooing" noises at you and other insults fat people have to deal with.''
SO not even the same level.
And some people do get too thin.0 -
its not ok to bash either. but i am not sure why you think no one picks at over weight people...its everywhere! all the pressure to look like the impossibly perfect people in the media and to be a certain size its sociably more acceptable to be skinny than fat. Either extreme is just as unhealthy though x0
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Too skinny/ too fat is old material. Why not bash all people with a squint? Or frizzy hair? Oh wait, that's me.....0
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