Fat shaming rant... why don't we teach our children better.

I would have gotten up and stared at them and then asked if their mother was home--you'd like to have a word with her.

I'm sorry that happened to you. I would not engage them either. I would just go about my activity. There's really nothing to be done about rude ignorant bystanders. It's just how you deal with it mentally, as you are doing, and not let it stop you from doing what you want.

Well...adults act the same way so I'm not sure why their kids would behave much better.

Anyways, you are not even overweight, probably pretty slim so it doesn't make much sense for anybody to call you obese..lol
My guess is that they were trying to get to you, making you feel bad about yourself.... For whatever reason....Not sure what the motivation were.

squidgybunny_276 wrote: »

I'm just writing this as I really need to get it out. I'm sure lots of you on this forum have had similar experiences but i just wonder how, with such great steps we've taken in our society to cultivate respect for women how much has slipped thorugh the gaps.

I'm currently on holiday in Australia, and this evening decided to go down and do my yoga practise by the pool. I was wearing a full "sports swimming" style swimsuit with good coverage as its hot here and I wanted to be confortable and go for a swim after. Some youths/young men and women were on a balcony above and started commenting a mixture of things like "I would do that" or "she's obese" or when i got into the pool, "its like a whale". Now 1) I don't know how to deal with behaviour like this, I was not going to let their comments deter me from the exercise i'd planned to but also didn't want to engage them 2) I am 5ft 7 and 140lbs (well within a normal BMI) what kind of unhealthy society do we live in where this is considered obese? 3) even if I was obsese what kind of a mother lets their children growing up think these comments are ok? and 4) can we please stop teaching yoga like it sexualises women, fundamentally it is as far away from this as it can get! ok rant over.

Who has had this kind of experience and what would/did you do?

This is not surprising. The liberties many take, young or old, to assault anyone they so choose is beyond baffling. Whilst in the islands during one of my semester breaks from the UK, a luxe boutique hotel was hosting an International Pageant/Fashion Show of sorts using the very pool my family and another family were situated for our family dinner. Other guests for the event were on the other side, bar-side, where they'd have the girls walking across some feets high walkway, right across the pool. As we were busy playing like sprites in the water for it was massive (me, my sister, our brother, his BFF and his BFF's younger brothers), the compere, eventually said something like "I would be too self-conscious to be swimming about with other women in their swimsuits around and men looking on." As a teen, and at that very moment, I immediately realised that the issue is never self-inherent but is superficially inserted to encourage insecurities, primarily theirs upon anyone else. If she'd said that, and the girls weren't us (me and my sister @777Gemma888), the depth of damage from her one-liner would last years. I couldn't stop laughing and that woman-compere was immediately "disciplined" by her co-host. We grew up in a school environment where walking about in our bikinis throughout lunchtime, to the school tuck shop and to the school pools facility even after school hours was our norm, in a co-ed environment. My point to you is, drawing attention to themselves - in numbers to quantify their false senses of worth, at your expense, is a tell of their multiple glitches, I'll not expand on.

With political correctness , liberties of the uncouth variety are borne to empower slanderers - their revolt to common decency, polite manners and civility, lacking decorum.

ETA: I wasn't heavy either, on the contrary. I was modeling in London at the time.