Look at my picture. I'm fat. I'm about 330 pounds when for my height and bone structure I should be between 155 and 185. Do I think it's okay to be this fat? Absolutely not. There are no benefits to being fat, and lots of disadvantages.
1. Attractive members of the opposite sex won't date you, or sleep with you or even make out with you unless you pay them money, in which case, they may do one of the three. But it won't be satisfying and you'll be out $200 bucks.
2. I'm going to die a lot sooner unless I get in shape.
3. If the zombie apocalypse happens, I won't be one of the survivors. I can't run fast enough, and I'll probably stop for a milkshake in a zombie-infested McDonalds along the way.
4. Even if you can do something well, people don't care when your fat. I'm a great singer when it comes to country music. I live in Nashville. I can get up at karaoke and NAIL a song and the only people that will care is the married couples in the back. But if Hunky Muscles gets up and WRECKS a song, the girls go wild for him.
5. No matter what you order, unless its like a carrot stick and a diet cola, you feel like everyone's judging you when you eat in public places. And they probably are.
There are many more, but my point is, my fellow fatties - stop making being fat an "okay" thing to be!
We're not curvy, we're &^%$ing fat!
I'm not a Big Beautiful Man, I'm a fat guy.
Guess what, I'm still way awesome in every other way, but I know I need to lose weight and I know that until I do, certain things in life are off limits to me, like dating girls that are attractive to me, getting a record deal and outrunning a nuclear blast like Harrison Ford in that last Indiana Jones movie.
One of these days, I'm going to figure out how to lose weight consistently and get in shape. Until then, I'm going to enjoy this cheeseburger.
For a long time there has been a trend to make unacceptable things acceptable, in various degrees. Homosexuality was a "bad thing" in the mid 1900's and before. Now it is perfectly okay. About the same time, girls would value virginity much more than now, and would certainly not have such a multitude of sexual partners as they do now, While most women still are against having nude/sexual photos/videos of themselves on the internet for all to see, there is a trend that many are jumping on to accept it and post there own. I realize those are all sexual issues, but I chose them because they are well known to most people.
Now there is a trend to "normalize" fat. I agree with the part about not making fun of fat people, I do not agree with trying to say it is a good thing. Ask most any doctor and they will tell you that the more overweight a person is, the more damage they are doing to their health. And if one is honest, it is not appealing except to those with a fetish for that.
@muspelhem_3 had a valid point that guilt worsens self control. But he is wrong to say that the first step is to stop hating yourself if you are fat. The first step is to admit that you are fat. You are not going to do anything to change your weight/body if you believe there is nothing wrong with it. So the idea that fat/obese people are curvy is strange and counter productive.
Peter Paul Rubens painted images in which women had more fat than is currently defined as beautiful, but they were women that actually had healthy fat levels.
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I would call those women curvy.
People say it to be polite as it's nicer to say curvy instead of big/fat/obese/overweight. Overweight people claim they're curvy because they're in denial or don't realise just how big they are. In most programmes about overweight people, they often blame other things apart from themselves for their weight, get annoyed if anyone brings it up and expects people to change their view of overweight people instead of improving their health. They basically resort to re-labelling themselves as curvy when they've given up trying to do anything about their weight and expect people to re-label them too, then get angry when people still view them as overweight.
This is curvy to me
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This isn't.
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Yes I do agree that there's a diffrence between being curvy and being a bigger size. I just really think we're not taking into consideration there feelings. I feel the word "FAT" is so disrespectful and there should be a better word to desctibe bigger and more plumpt people. So many people have been commenting calling these people fatties and blobs and anyone can be reading these things of a person whose a bigger size and feel so low and insecure. I do think there is a difference, but I feel that we should be more respsctful in commenting and watch what we say because comments like these even make me sad for the bigger girls seeing this.
I agree, and before People start going batshit crazy on the asker, i have put a lot of weight on, i am currently fat. I have rejoined the gym in order to lose weight. I do not wish to try and justify being fat by calling myself curvy. And if wokalne close to me tells me i have put weight on, it doesn't bother me because they are saying it for the benefit of my health
These fatties are ruining the word "curvy" for us girls who actually have curves. Like if you're on a dating website and someone asks what you look like and you say you're curvy, they'll assume you're just a fatty trying to cover up the fact that "curvy" actually means "massive fat rolls".
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I agree to a point until I thought about the beauty is in the eye of the beholder stand point. You can be curvy to all the true definition and still be flabby and disgusting to some and drop dead gorgeous to others... My thoughts are that some people are too judgmental on others for reasons that they shouldn't because even if that person was fit enough to be approved as a sexual partner by the judge-r, the jugs would still be to vain that they prolly wouldn't lower they're standards to be with the curvy anyhow... So the opinion of other people trying to politely describe their physical appearance as curvy rather than fat or like harsh terminology doesn't promote a high personal ego. Who wants to talk bad about themselves in that sense. It's not healthy and until they do decide with shaping up to someone else's liking they have to operate with what they've got... I don't know.
because of dumb and damaging people who tell them theyre not fat and fine the way they are... so they say you're curvy. if they were told the truth, theyd live longer better quality lives being accepted by way more people and way more option as their lovers whod be genuinely sexually saticefied.
all this possiblity is stolen once people start telling them theyre fine and theyre beautiful. fat is opposite of beauty in terms on physical beauty. i dont care people can down me, i doubt even the chubby chasers won't go past their phase.
there are a few people who have been "abusing" the word curvy to mean fat. that or are so much in denial they don't realize how fat they actually are.
according to the poll most people seem to agree with us though.
I do agree with you on the miss use of the word but some of these people may be confused with themselves, because although they don't have much or no defined curves in their waists, they may have wide hips and/or juicy, shapely thighs. I just don't understand why a large bust and backside gets mentioned as curvy since it's not part of bone structure. As for what you said about losing weight, yes for the ones that do have a lot of waist definition, yeah, they did eat their curves away and are in denial about it.
On the contrary, others that are not fat but just plus size with no waist definition may have the other assets, or they are looking at how they're frame in a whole is more horizontal than vertical overall. Compared to a thin framed person they will be seen as wider automatically, so maybe that's what they're working with to define themselves as curvy.
Curvy is having an hourglass figure. Overweight people use the word curvy as a way to empower themselves and take the blame off of their own bad eating habits.
just a way to avoid the truth and therefore not have to do the work to fix it.
People does this all the time in order not to do work in order to get better.
I absolutely agree with you. Curvy is in fact a shape which means your waist are exceptionally smaller than your bust and hips. It is this shape ") (" . Curvy does not = overweight. Don't get me wrong... you can be fat and curvy, chubby and curvy, and skinny curvy, it's possible! but if I dont see a define waist... you're not curvy. Simple as that.
yes exactly very true indeed
Curvy is not rolls of fat... a big fat women can be curvy but its needs to be just that
Most bigger women will use curvy in order to feel better internally and to project a more sexier outlook to others... You know that, no need to attack the fatties now
No Idea...
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I think it's to make the word "fat" seem lighter (better) in society. Curvy is your waist fat is your stomach, I don't understand why some people say that far is better because of their curves and im not saying that being fat is bad im just saying that theirs a difference in your hips and stomach
I think a lot of people think that having large breasts, and a large buttocks means they have curves. Even when they have a lot of fat around their stomach area. Now I don't agree with body shaming, but this is a cause for concern because being "curvy" insinutates to a degree having a healthy body type. Leading overweight women to believe they're curvy is leading them into a false sense of security, when in reality they are at risk of a variety of health issues.
What other people think has never proven to be a particularly motivating factor.
Also, I don't much care how other people define themselves. I care if they are nice people. Telling someone who calls them self curvy " Um no actually you are just a big round blob" isn't particularly nice. Most people are fully aware of their good and bad qualities. It's unnecessary for a stranger to point them out to them.
People have to want to loose waight for them selves and their health. Take that extra effort to be healthy because it's acually easier than it seems.
Many people know they are obese but call themselves curvy to feel better even though they know they aren't.
society needs to stop looking at the cheapest way to make food over valuing the health of the consumers
I understand why they do it, fat just seems like such a harsh word. I think skinny is still harsh, but at least other people view it positively. Fat however has no positive connotation at all. I just try to call people who are fatter big, just because I knew a girl growing up who was bullied for being big and it was out of her control; so I try not to call people fat.
I agree.
Fat women should not call themselves curvy.
because of a lot of feministic effords "curves" now means "chubby" or even "fat" xD... people don´t understand their own language anymore!
"Curvy" is a euphemism for obese that obese women like to use to feel better about their lack of attention to their own health.
I agree with you, but the reason behind this is because saying "I'm curvy" is far more kinder to yourself than saying "I'm fat". Telling yourself you're fat is just putting yourself down, whereas telling yourself you're curvy makes you feel less shitty about your body.
For me curcy is when a girl has a "S" shape like Jenifer love Hewit. Most blacks and Latinas havethat shape and is not bbecause we r fat is juts our shape. Not everyone can be skinny in every inch of their body
Perhaps it has something to do with trying to make themselves feel better.. It's better to say things to keep you going even though it's not true than to be truthful but would put themselves down. Like a coping mechanism or perhaps words to motivate them to lose weight.
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