Are you prejudiced against skinny or fat people?

(btw, someone in that class threw a fit about people calling overweight women "real women"- i wanted to go up to her and ask if she thought i was effing imaginary. still makes me angry -_-)

Maybe she was tired of her femininity being denigrated because she's thin? I hate the phrase and the whole idea of"real women." Real women have 2 X chromosomes. And sometimes 2 Xs and a Y, some other variations, maybe an X, a Y and a surgery, I don't care. But the saying that "real women have curves," really is and should be taken as an insult to women who are just naturally thin, or have fewer curves because of genetics.They don't have an less intrinsic value as a woman just because they're smaller.

oh, i definitely agree about the phrase "real women have curves"- real women come in every shape and size. her issue was with overweight women being lumped in with real women like her :P

thanks for posting this!
I remember reading a study wherein mental healthcare professionals were shown two pictures of the same woman styled the same way, but one was altered to make her look much fatter (this was controlled in some way, they didn't know of course it was the same woman), and across the board, when asked to make an off-the-cuff set of assumptions about the subject, they projected that the "fat" one was probably depressed, unwell, angry, etc. etc. It was pretty interesting.

Without taking the test, I feel like I finally arrived in the past decade at a point in life in which, while I can appreciate physical loveliness, I really do not judge at all based upon looks. I think I have now known too many people who are so far from society's ideas of beauty, physically, but who are people I have looked up to so much, as well as too many people fitting high standards of physical beauty who, to me, demonstrate no interesting or admirable traits as humans...and I no longer take my own body for granted (why I'm serious about exercise and diet), having seen too many people get sick and die - I truly hate the way society places value on any looks whatsoever, really (I'm not talking about dressing appropriately for work, school and other social situations, maintaining hygiene and wanting to look nice, personally, by the way - I mean faces, hair, bodies, skin). I define myself through my work, interests, loves, deeds, and I'm mainly interested in these things in other people. If me or my husband lost a limb tomorrow, or were maimed, there would be no question of our fidelity and devotion - we fell in love talking about ideas and we remain in love with each other's minds and hearts. blah blah. People are mean to fat people, quite often categorically. It's stupid and should be abandoned. Unless, of course, the fat person is evil, mean and cruel. In which case, they should just be ignored and avoided, rather than responded to in kind.

re: guy in macdonalds - it' is very hard not to be repulsed by disgusting behavior, even if we understand someone is addicted adn feel empathy for them. I'd be as grossed out by watching a junkie shoot up or smoke crack in front of me as watching a dying super-obese person eat tons of junk food. Not just grossed out, sickened from the sadness of it - that's mortality staring you in the face.

I got moderate preference towards thin people.

But I'm willing to bet if it was very overweight vs average-sized vs very thin, I'd end up with average sized, even when "average" tends towards slightly overweight. I'm not a fan of either extreme. I'm a rabid moderate!!! :laugh:

how do you get the fat/thin one? i've taken 4 and none of them have been about weight. one was race, one caring vs. earning, another about fair vs biased, i wasn't sure what woudl come up next so i just stopped

I'm definately a little prejudiced against obese people, if they are very obviously indulging in lazy behaviour or WAY too much food. The phrase "fatties are gonna fat" always comes to mind. I'm sure they are nice people but they are hurting themselves and being a drain on the health system because of lethargy and lack of willpower. I guess some obese people are happy with their weight of course, but they really shouldn't be...

I am not prejudiced against fat OR skinny people. Turns out, I'm prejudiced against stupid people.

Gonna take the survery, will post results, but everyone has the beautiful person syndrome, where we are more likely to trust beautiful people, just the same distrust ugly people

Interesting...

As far as the age one...

Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between Young and Old.

I had older parents, and I'm the youngest of 6 kids. So I grew up feeling like a peer to both my older siblings, who are 5-16 years older than me, and a peer to my first batch of nieces, who are 9-19 years younger than me. My group of friends are anywhere between 20 and 60 years old.

Or maybe it's because I myself am halfway between young and old. :laugh: