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How tolerant are you of fatness?

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I don't have a problem with stocky, chubby, overweight people. I do have a problem with morbidly obese to a point where they cannot walk.
 
It's possible to have fat distributed such that you look normal/thin in some areas, but overall still be obese. There's a medical term for it, but the most severe case is to look deathly thin in some areas, and morbidly obese in others.
 
teh_pwn said:
It's possible to have fat distributed such that you look normal/thin in some areas, but overall still be obese. There's a medical term for it, but the most severe case is to look deathly thin in some areas, and morbidly obese in others.
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Referring to this?

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I don't really enjoy looking at fat people. The first time I went to USA I was quite frankly appalled by the amount of obese people. It's just a waste. That being said.. It won't stop me from becoming friend with them or anything like that.

For the record, I think Christina Hendricks is fat and not good looking at all.
 
You've got to be a bit cruel inside to not be 'tolerant' of overweight people. Disliking somebody solely on their weight isn't much different than disliking somebody for their race or sexual preference, in my opinion. Yes, your weight is something you can usually control, but being overweight or whatever doesn't make you a bad person or anything, so I'm not going to dislike you as a person for it.

As for girls I'm willing to sleep with/date/whatever, I dont mind if they're a bit overweight if they wear it well and have a pretty face. I like a bit of extra meat on the legs and ass especially. I'm hardly a chubby-chaser, I just think curves of a particular proportion are attractive. And I prefer slightly overweight to underweight/overly skinny any day of the week. A flat ass and stick legs are personal turn-offs.
 
Raelson said:
I don't really enjoy looking at fat people. The first time I went to USA I was quite frankly appalled by the amount of obese people. It's just a waste. That being said.. It won't stop me from becoming friend with them or anything like that.

For the record, I think Christina Hendricks is fat and not good looking at all.
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Where in the U.S. did you go? Just curious because some areas have way more obese people than others.
 
I have no problem with anyone overweight I don't see why anyone would not be tolerate of anyone but I am sure there are people who do. I do look at some that are really obese and wonder why they don't choose to change a little though.

I saw a dude at walmart today that could take like a few steps then sat on the bench while his family shopped like it just makes you think that if you get to that point why not try to lose a little so you can atleast walk. Granted for some it is probably really hard but even changing the diet up abit can go a long way.
 
YoungFa said:
You can like a fat person while disliking the fact that they are fat. Or vice versa.
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I can dislike lots of things and still be 'tolerant' of em, though.

The whole 'tolerance' thing, I dont quite understand. What does it mean to not be tolerant of fat, and how is that seperable from not tolerating fat people?
 
I like to think I'm a pretty tolerant person in general, but man... riding the T in Boston for 10 years really made me rethink that. Getting crushed on either side by overweight people spilling into my seat on the train made me kind of angry.

I guess I'm tolerant up until the point it starts affecting me.
 
Obviously, nobody should be anorexic and ridiculously thin, and I do agree that the media often portrays an unrealistic standard of how women/men should look.

But on the other hand, it's not that hard to maintain a healthy weight... just think about what you eat, and walk occasionally instead of driving and you'll be fine. I guess I do 'judge' overweight people, if only because I think it says a lot when a person ignores the obvious health benefits and are too weak-willed to just eat an apple instead of a Gregg's pasty for a snack, or too lazy to walk a mile.
 
Ein Bear said:
Obviously, nobody should be anorexic and ridiculously thin, and I do agree that the media often portrays an unrealistic standard of how women/men should look.

But on the other hand, it's not that hard to maintain a healthy weight... just think about what you eat, and walk occasionally instead of driving and you'll be fine. I guess I do 'judge' overweight people, if only because I think it says a lot when a person ignores the obvious health benefits and are too weak-willed to just eat an apple instead of a Gregg's pasty for a snack, or too lazy to walk a mile.
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This is probably true, but it is also true that it is much easier to maintain a healthy weight if one has never been overweight in the first place than it is to lose weight once one has become overweight, and then maintain that new weight.
 
SlickShoesRUCrazy said:
Problem is the internet doesn't understand the difference between skinny, curvy and fat.
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Problem is that "curvy" isn't a description of someone's size, it's a description of someone's shape. You can be curvy and skinny or you can be curvy and average or you can be curvy and fat. Hendricks is curvy and fat.
 
The last "fat shaming thread" taught me something, and it is that we are an exceptional species that can create itself problems when there is none.

If someone has a "problem" with how others look, then he truly is a Wizard, a Magician, a Yogi, whatever.: congratulations, now you have made, out of nothing, something that can change your behavior just by being in your proximity.

I can understand if someone who is already within your circle of everyday friends/workplace colleges might have that plus thing that can bother you - but it still SHOULD NOT.

How absurd it is to place one's own comfort in the hand of strangers? "I have a problem with xxxxxx / yyyyyy" is nothing but a magical conjuration that can lock away your freedom and peace with your own consent. Now, you do not have a problem with how ANYONE looks, but your own (and even that is not mandatory.). You really do not. Problems are not that. Not even first-world problems.

I do not care if you have a belief, or you have an atheist, but still: some moral code is in dire need for everyone who frequently lets himself/herself riled up by the tiniest outside circumstances. It is like creating a program that can have a wonderful time when it is allowed to run its main function, but all the reactionary bullshit has priority over that, and now all the program does is reacting to random things like temperature change, incoming trash bits on the ethernet cable, etc. What a wonderful waste of good opportunity.
 
Mumei said:
This is probably true, but it is also true that it is much easier to maintain a healthy weight if one has never been overweight in the first place than it is to lose weight once one has become overweight, and then maintain that new weight.
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That's like saying that it's easier to be a non-smoker than it is to quit smoking without relapse. Of course it is, but it doesn't preclude the fact that they had to eat more food than their body needed to fuel itself day after day without caring enough to make note of the trend in their appearance... in most cases of obesity, as some are obese from childhood because they weren't raised with healthy eating habits.

I'm not denying the added hardship, but the need to be more drastic in order to maintain it is a tradeoff that comes with the excess that got the person there.

I also think there are a host of cultural pressures that contribute to daily caloric excess without the activity level to match... it's not that everyone is just gluttonous, not the least of which are "finish what's on your plate" and "breakfast is the most important meal of the day".
 
It is dependent on my own weight. When I have a normal weight, I have no problem with fat people. When I'm fat myself, I despise them. Probably something psychological.
 
Opiate said:
I suspect, instead, it's simply a consequence of physical repulsion.
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Fatness has fallen out of favour because of a shift in perception when it comes to what causes fatness. Hundreds of years ago, fatness was a sign of wealth. Nowadays, food is cheap and it's a sign of something entirely different. If I see Kobayashi eating 10 pounds of hot dogs or Adam Richman on Man vs. Food stuffing meat into his face but neither of them are gaining weight doing it, it's just as disgusting to me as someone who does it and gains weight.

The amount that people in our culture eat on average is hideous. The amount that certain people eat is offensive.
 
Probably already mentioned in here, but as long as they don't smell like ass then I don't have any issues with fat people.
 
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