Why are women so pissed off when other women call themselves 'curvy' when they're clinically obese?

[Anonymous]

Not trying to start a flame war here, I just don't understand. Why are you so riled up that you need to inform people what curvy 'really' means? You think they hurt the 'real' curvy people's feelings out there? Really?

Clinically underweight people who can only maintain to stay so thin by running -at least- an hour a day while eating no more than 1200 calories no matter how tall they are and how much they ran that day also claim to be 'healthy'.
You think they hurt the 'real' healthy people's feelings out there too?

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The difference is liposuction in the waist area and photoshop.

[Kalinda]

If you can run at least an hour a day and get everything you need to get done and not pig out then Id day you're healthy.

Health is based on what you can do not a number.

Anyhow orople get annoyed bc language exists for a reason. We share meaning in ksmgusge. If people are going to go defining anything any which way they want it breaks down communication.

People do it with a lot of things. Not just curvy vs fat or healthy vs chubby or healthy vs passing out.

And clarifying a definition jsnt losing it, it's just creating clarity so everyone is on the same page. You can't even agree or disagree until you're actuslly referring to the same thing.

Stereotyoes are bad enough but when you can't identify there's no way to even break it diwn.

Clarification in communication has msny purposes it's not just aboit personal feelings about a subject or meant to build up or break down. It's necessary as a platform for basic comprehension without ehich you can't even form an actual opinion.

If you can't even have a view there's no way you can move on from a view.

Incoherent definitions just leads to stupidity and complacency.

Understanding doesn't cause change but it definitely blocks it.

And soecifically if a 300 pound person is calling themselves curvy that's not just sn snnoying issue if semantics, to someone else, it's dangerous for their health.

Anyhow if nothing means snything in particular then you wouldn't be able to post this bc wed all have various views as to what you were referring to. The reason most of us get what you're saying is bc you're using a language that has a logical structure to it , which the people who have a shared knowledge of the ksmgusge are able to understand.

And if a person speaks a different language they can still understand what's being said bc of the concept behind the words. No matter what language you speak there is a point where your body goes from over weight to dangerous.

Fat is fat regardless what you

[Kalinda]

Call it but identifying it as something else is just very unnecessarily time consuming.

There are diagnostic ways to assess if someone's body fat is too high. Curvy is a shape not a health report. You can be curvy and underweight or curvy and overweight.

Anyone can be curvy but when people say curvy they mean not fat but curvy.

I suppose to be accurate you could say curvy thin or curvy fat or curvy medium. Etc

Most things people say are done in an ignorant way. But I suspect that's not why anyone who gets angry about the sensitive behind curvy, gets mad.

Obviously they don't want to be associated with obese curvy if they are say chubby curvy. Which is absurd and why people need so many body titles is beyond me.

Anyhow to solve this problrm - if it's really a problrm- my suggestion would be just stipulate what "kind " of curvy.

I'm curvy thin :p really my bones are structured in a curvy way. People probably wouldn't call me curvy bc im not voluptuous but technically I curve.

[Asker]

'If you can run at least an hour a day and get everything you need to get done and not pig out then Id day you're healthy.'

Your definition of healthy might not reflect the defition of healthy for a majority of people.

[Kalinda]

As for snyine not eating 2000 calories starving themselves-nope. People have different metabolisms. akso you have to taje height and bone density and activity level into account. Few women unless active or very tell , can eat that much and maintain a healthy weight. At least statistically.

. Again just like with fat there are diagnostic tests that can be done to assess starvation. And a person running over an hour a day is not starving. They wouldn't be able to run if there body was actually in a state of starvation. Id say a oersin eating heakthy food at 1200 a day and exercising vs someine eating 2000 a day and getting out of breath going up a flight of stairs. There's no comparison.

You seem to just like to protect stereotypes but are bothered that other people do the same thing.

Anyways as I said, just throw in a defining marker for the curvy do everyone feels understood.

Really most women are " curvy" lol I mean at 13 or whenever out hips separate giving the

[Kalinda]

Curved look.

I think when people say curvy they mean voluptuous. Women are curvy whether they have any fat or too much fat. So the word is problematic even when used " properly" according to whatever standards it's supposed to be used.

My vote. Voluptuous in grades. Every extra few inches you go up a grade. Curvy is usekess bc that's just the natural bone development of post puberty.

And I really don't care what words people use as long as they make sense and are consistent. in my opinion it's not about hurting its about accuracy.

[Asker]

Yes, it depends on your height too, but you can't tell me that any woman no matter how small her bone density is taller than say 5'6 only need 1200 a day when they run daily.
From that picture example, it seems to me that everyone is focusing on the stomach. As long as it's rather small the other parts of the body can go as big they want and they get the label curvy.

[BuchitaBuchys]

I don't know. I've had overweight women get mad when others referred to me as curvy. I'm fairly thin. But I have a small waist, and a big butt, big thighs. Pear shape. And my friends would call me "Ms. Curvy or Curvaceous". And some larger girls would say under their breath or out loud "She's too fucking skinny to be curvy. People don't know what curvy is".

I was like "Wtf?".
I honestly don't know what it is about women sometimes lol
I don't consider myself curvy, but others do.

The reason other women get mad if an overweight woman calls herself curvy is:
-The meaning of the word changes.
-Who's to say what curvy is? Are the thin people right? Or the large people?
-It confuses a lot of people. I had a friend tell me, "If a guy calls a girl curvy, it's a good thing. But if a girl calls herself curvy, it's not really a good thing. It can be a code word for fat".

[Toad-1]

"The meaning of the word changes."

You got that right.. the meaning of the word just changes all the time from person to person.

[BuchitaBuchys]

@Toad-1 Yea. It's hard to keep track of that damn word now lol I don't even use it. It confuses too many people.

[Asker]

So basically the thin and the thick want the curvy label to be theirs and theirs only solely because guys want curvy girls nowadays. smh
I should have said clinically overweight instead of obese, because the curvy girl in my pic gets called fat.

[BuchitaBuchys]

Boom. There it is.
That's what it basically seems like.

I don't refer to myself as curvy. And I don't even use that word cuz it causes too much frustration.

For dick. Seriously. Women get really mad for dick.

[Toad-1]

yesss im level 2 now...

sorry ignore me lol :p

[Asker]

"For dick. Seriously. Women get really mad for dick." lolz

So.. larger girls say what you quoted OUT LOUD about you? In public? The larger girls in my country would never dare to do that o. O

[BuchitaBuchys]

Haha. That's what it seems like to me. A giant catfight for dicks.

Yea. People in Chicago are in your face. Not everyone, but I feel that most people are wannabe badasses.
I've had STRANGERS (large women) come up to me and say "You're too thin. Men like meat not bones". I just stand there stupid like wtf? Ok. . .

[Asker]

wtf? In my world, only guys are mean and a few skinny bitches (not saying all skinny girl are bitches) to large girls and the large girls have to low self esteem to retaliate. It seemed like they carried on with their cruelty online for no reason than to lower the already low self esteem of large girls
If I lived in Chicago, I'd probably be agitated too.

[SirenDep]

I don't understand your point.. Do you say that there is no actual difference between curvy and fat? Curvy means to have a big waist to hip or/and bust ratio while you maintain a normal weight, while fat means to weigh more or have a bigger fat percentage than you should, according to age, height etc

Take a look at Marilyn Monroe, she was by no means fat, but definitely curvy.
www.liferetreat.co.za/.../real-women.jpg

[Asker]

Of course there is a difference. I'm just wondering why people get riled up about it to call them out -mostly anonymously- when in other cases like rate me questions and the pic is of a not so attractive person they just skip the question.

[SirenDep]

Oh you mean random internet users commenting 'this girl is fat not curvy' and insulting people about their weight? Some people are racists towards obese and overweight people, some people like trolling and some people feel the need to insult other people to feel better themselves, and they think they can get away with it in the internet.

[Asker]

Yeah. Girls commenting the curvy model is fat not curvy.

[OptimisticallyBryant]

Happy birthday Mr. President...

[Mesonfielde]

I prefer the curvy from the side (boobs and butt) rather than from the heavily indented waist. #preference

[Asker]

@Mesonfielde is Marilyn curvy from the side?

[Mesonfielde]

Not really.

[SirenDep]

@Mesonfielde she is, it's just not so obvious in this photo, Google her and you'll see

[SirenDep]

and thanks for mho

[RedThread]

I'd say the only issue is that since people are changing the word curvy to mean fat, I feel strange calling a woman curvy since the definition is changing.. It can be offensive for a girl to be considered curvy because obese also falls under that label now.

In reality skinny women can have a curvy body shape and heavier women might not have any good curves. It's a broad classification that unfortunately is only being used when a woman is heavier now. What words do I use now? haha

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[Asker]

Ok, I'm slowly understanding what people are getting at. I didn't know the word 'curvy' only belongs to obese people now and skinny women with curves hate to be called curvy. I don't get offended when people say I have curves, because in my head I associate curves with Kim K.

[Mesonfielde]

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[kheserthorpe]

Because there are plenty of words that mean fat already, so do we need to continually change every other word meaning not fat, to also mean fat.

It's at a point already where some people lump being on the low end of healthy weight, being a high performance athlete and being anorexic into one category.

If you think curvy describes the girl on the right, what word would you use for the girl on the left? Because skinny would be a pretty bad description. And she has more curves then the woman on the right, who doesn't have a waist.

[Asker]

There are plenty of words that mean fat already? I can't think of any other words beside overweight and obese that are both clinical labels while fat is not a clinical label.

[Kalinda]

Voluptuous grade #3, :)

[BertMacklinFBI]

they can call themselves whatever they want, doesn't refrain from the truth. fat is fat, if you have X % of body fat then that is exactly how fat you are, then take societies standards into it for terms.

[Asker]

Of course it doesn't change the truth. I'm just wondering why people get riled up about it to call them out -mostly anonymously- when in other cases like rate me questions and the pic is of a not so attractive person they just skip the question.

[BertMacklinFBI]

so this question is more of an issue you see on GaG?

[Asker]

Yes. I assume most people are sane enough to not go to up a woman saying she loves her curves to tell her what curves and she's fat.

[BertMacklinFBI]

oh well of course! on the internet its so much easier, so much anonymity, even if their profile matches their identity there is still distance and a monitor in between both people. its easy to hate online.

[sugarvenomx]

Wait, you're saying thin people have no right to embrace the the curvy... why? Because they work for it and show self discipline and have healthier diets and exercise?

So you're putting people down for putting effort into their health and appearance? I think all body shapes are beautiful but I hate the term curvy as a synonym for fat.

Fat girls are beautiful but they're fat. No shame in it! Curvy girls can come in all shapes and sizes skinny or fat... I'm a size 0 and consider myself curvy

[Asker]

This is so not what I said.

[sugarvenomx]

This is exactly what you said. You said "these women run and eat 1200 calories" as tho it was a bad thing. Reality check self discipline is a GOOD thing

[AshleyMD]

Excising too much and eating too little for that amount of exercise is bad. No one should be eating 1200 calories a day, the average women should eat around 2000 calories but if she is vigorously exercising she will probably need a lot more than that. Although you are right people should look after themselves, but in a healthy way, don't eat too much, don't eat too little, don't exercise too much and don't exercise too little.

[CHARismatic110]

"I'm a size 0 and consider myself curvy"

The difference is that no one would bash you, or call you out, or humiliate you for referring to yourself as that. Whereas someone that is bigger (like myself) will pretty much be annihilated for saying that they're curvy.

I think that's what she means. Or at least that's what I took from it.

[Asker]

I remember you from old posts. You said it yourself that you're a recovering anorexic. Reality check, your view on what is healthy and what is not is maybe not in check yet.

@AshleyMD Thank you. She said she's like 5'11 too.

@CHARismatic110 This is indeed what I meant, but people are not getting it.

[sugarvenomx]

@CHARismatic110

Actually people do, people's kneejerk reaction when a skinny person says that is "you're too skinny to be curvy". People think of curvy as equal to full figured when it's about shape not size.. does your body curve? If yes then you're curvy... size is irrelevant.

Be aware im not bashing anyone. I think every body type is beautiful. I'm just trying to be fair about this

@asker

For the record yes I used to be anorexic. I'm 5'11 and used to be 110 lbs you're correct. My idea of healthy WAS fucked up... past tense.

I also struggled with overeating all through highschool and was overweight till age 16 and hated my body. Now I've found a happy medium and I've worked HARD to find it. Why should I be put down for that?

Also I don't eat 1200 calories a day. It depends on the day but I try to never go under 1700 or over 2000. and yes I run at least a few times a week, daily on a good week. I'm a normal weight.

[CHARismatic110]

I know you're not bashing anyone, we've spoken on other threads about this. We pretty much feel the same way in thinking that nobody should be put down based on their body type. I'm just going off what I see. And I don't see very many thinner girls get put down, but that's not to say that they don't.

You'll see me advocate for all body types because everyone should be able to feel beautiful in their own skin. And bashing one type to make another feel good is not ok either.

[sugarvenomx]

@CHARismatic110

Skinny girls get put down. When I was anorexic my nickname was skeleton and random people constantly walked up to me and condescendingly said "honey you need to eat" or "eat a sandwich"... complete strangers.

Both sides have struggled... severely overweight and underweight people. It's not so much about which end of the spectrum you sit on its more about how extreme an end... you know?

I feel like even having this conversation is wrong. I feel bad saying anything honestly because who am I? What right do any of us have to debate other people's bodies? I have no probl with heavy girls saying curvy if it's empowering but I DO have a problem with putting down skinny girls and saying they are t curvy in the process

You know?

[Asker]

Isn't there a difference between recovering anorexic and recovered anorexic? I remember you said recovering. I apologize if I remember incorrectly.
No, you shouldn't be put down for it. I never said you are not allowed to call yourself curvy when you are. When you quoted "these women run and eat 1200 calories" I assumed you were talking about yourself and 1200 is just too little for someone as tall as you when you run too. Read again I said "1200 no matter how tall they are".

[sugarvenomx]

I think we're all getting caught up in the semantics of this conversation and forgetting the real enemy here and that's society's expectations.

Every time this conversation comes up we both kneejerk run to our opposing ends and begin to criticize each other and police one another's language and bodies and diets when we have no right.

We all deserve to feel confident about our bodies and empowered. If we're truly happy with our bodies then THATS what's beautiful. Curvy, thick, skinny, thin whatever adjective you feel comfortable with and empowered by you should be allowed to embrace. Curvy means just that.. curves. You can have those ion a size 0 and a size 16.

Let's just remember that we are each other's allies because we're both being told how we have to look when really we should all just be whoever we want. WE have to work together as women against expectations society puts on us

[CHARismatic110]

Sadly not many women see the bigger picture. We're so quick to tear each other down but seldom ever do we uplift each other. Or stand up for each other. No, we let society divide us and pit us against each other. Simply because we look different. Body shaming to me is as bad as being racist. You're looking at someone and deciding that you have a problem with them based off their looks.

I'll say it a million times if I have to: ALL body shaming is wrong. Period.

[Theguyoverthere]

Overweight women have been constantly trying to claim the "curvy" term and people will respond that "rolls are not curves" and after seeing it enough, people realize that these overweight women are just in denial of their own body types.

In the US obesity's rampant so when there's enough fat girls doing this it can be annoying to see so many girls in denial of the fact that they're weight is holding them back from getting dates. So these girls would rather cover themselves up in whatever clothes and makeup they can to hide it and try to claim curvy.

A lot over overweight women also despise skinny girls because they see them getting more dates and stuff and see that they get more desired overall. So these girls pretending to be curvy when they're really just fat will outright skinny shame these girls which creates animosity between the two.

[Asker]

Yeah, Buchita just told me about the skinny shaming. I don't live in the US, so the animosity between them seems rude and unnecessary to me.

[Theguyoverthere]

@BuchitaBuchys? Yea. She has probably had her share of skinny shaming.

There's bad cases of it in the US with the skinny shaming. The overweight women are trying to promote "fat acceptance" in a way that is more like "fat promotion" and there's lots of hate that fat girls shell out.

Skinny girls get told they have no ass, that they are skeletons, that they need to eat something, etc.

[Asker]

The idea of skinny shaming is so foreign to me. It's sad that whoever is the majority in a country gets a free ticket to bully. It's also sad that skinny has become so rare and praised in your country that some girls think it's healthy to eat 1200 and exercise to death on that little food. I said 1200, because some health experts said 1200 is the minimum every dieter should eat to not go into 'starvation mode'.

[BuchitaBuchys]

I think it goes both ways. Skinny and fat girls at each other's throats :/

[Theguyoverthere]

Yea it is sad. Fat girls are also known to "fit shame" gym goers yet they feel like they "deserve" an in shape guy. They'll attack women like Maria Kang just for making a headline saying "what's your excuse?"

[Hannah591]

Because they're trying to change people's opinions of themselves whilst they deceive themselves into denial instead of accepting that they're overweight and should do something about it for their health. To me, it shows a woman is in complete denial and it annoys me. People should be honest with themselves and then maybe they wouldn't get to that stage in the first place.

1200 calories a day honestly isn't that bad and it beats eating 500 or 3000 calories a day.

The woman on the left is actually curvy, it's based on genetics, no liposuction or photo shop involved. It honestly sounds like you're jealous.

[Asker]

lol I'm not, just not blind to photoshop. Not saying she looked exactly ike the other girl before ps, far from it, but they did smooth out her waist area.

[Hannah591]

You evidently are because no photoshop has been used to make her waist thinner. Everyone's bodies are different and body shapes like that DO exist.

[Asker]

I said smoother, not thinner
like in this example
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[Hannah591]

"The difference is liposuction in the waist area and photoshop." It's obvious what you were getting at.

[Asker]

I meant liposuction is what keeps Girl B from getting called curvy, and photoshop. Not that Girl A did it.

[Mesonfielde]

Because it hurts their sense of identity.

"You don't deserve to be called curvy because you don't put nearly as much effort into maintaining your appearance as I do! And your definition is wrong, you are using the wrong term!"

Pretty much that, I think.

[rthomas43]

It pisses people off because IT ISN'T WHAT THE WORD MEANS.
Humans love to classify shit, label stuff, group stuff together.
When we give a label to a certain thing, then that's what it means. If you start using that label to describe other things, the whole system goes to shit.

[Asker]

Healthy also doesn't mean running an hour a day when you're not an athlete while subsisting on 1200 calories. Do you give them shit for being delusional too?

[rthomas43]

Being an athlete has nothing to do with it.
I agree, that isn't a healthy lifestyle.

I don't see your issue.

[Asker]

My issue is people with that kind of unhealthy lifestyle don't get called out on claiming to lead a healthy lifestyle. They only call out fat people for claiming something they're not.

[kheserthorpe]

People who are running a day and eating '1200 calories' can't count calories.

[Asker]

@kheserthorpe believe me, they do. not with their brain, but with apps like myfitnesspal.

[rthomas43]

"My issue is people with that kind of unhealthy lifestyle don't get called out on claiming to lead a healthy lifestyle"

This is solely because you can see somebody's body and immediately analyze it. It's much harder to analyze someone's diet and lifestyle at a glance.

[Mesonfielde]

I thought you were a supporter of trans* people? They're fucking up the sex-label-system completely, yet no one seems to mind.

[Anonymous]

@"Clinically underweight people who can only maintain to stay so thin by running -at least- an hour a day while eating no more than 1200 calories no matter how tall they are and how much they ran that day also claim to be 'healthy'."

That's because their carb ratio is too high (and fat intake too low), because most diets and nutritionists recommend an unhealthily high percentage of carbs.

I can control my weight perfectly even with zero exercise by precisely moderating my carb intake according to my needs.

[AshleyMD]

I don't get riled up on this issue, but curvy is not synonymous with fat and I would correct people just because of misinformation. And also some people truly are naturally curvy and naturally have 'the perfect body' sure they are rare but they do exist.

[Asker]

Do you also correct people who have an eating disorder of some sort that they're not really as healthy as they claim?

[AshleyMD]

Yes I do. Of course they aren't healthy, they are basically starving themselves. Although I always try and be careful when talking to anorexic people as well as people who are extremely overweight because it seems like a lot of them have body issues so I try to inform them without causing any harm to how they feel about themselves although that's very hard to do.

[thatonelightskinn]

Curvy means to have curves. Just because you're bigger doesn't mean you're also curvy. Fat or big or skinny or thin girls can have curves. Curves aren't based on weight, it's a body shape. Fat girls can be curvy, not all of them are. Skinny curves can be curvy, not all of them are. People probably get mad because people of all weights call themselves something they aren't (not all people). Fat people sometimes think saying curvy means they aren't fat and skinny people might say the same to think they aren't skinny. If peopke have insecurities about their body they'll want to describe themselves as something more appealing to them. I don't really think it matters though. I'm not skinny and I'm not considered fat but I am a heavier weight and I wouldn't consider myself curvy because I only have slight curves but curvy is a body shape not size. Peopl tend to mix that up.

[GirlScoutsRevenge]

There are a lot of men who prefer curvy women and "fat" women... I call myself fat but others call me curvy. It's all personal choice and preference as technically fat people ARE curvy as well.

Thin people who don't at people have real issue with people being fine with being curvy or fat. Se as a lot of bigger people will be nasty about skinny people. It's just bitches being bitches and will never stop.

[renogaza]

its because they want to feel better about themselves by lying instead of doing something about it (and no liposuction is not one of those things, it doesn't work believe me)

its similar to how some women love to be showered with compliments and positive comments but never realistic/constructive ones, its a guilty pride trip and some will do it just because they can, even if its not really the solution

[renogaza]

Note: just to clear something up, what determines whether someone is fit or not is their BMI (Body Mass Index - a measurement table determining the optimal weight of an individual based on height), you can bend the idea with your own perspective of "fit" but the reality remains the same, i'm saying this now because a lot of obese women completely deny and refuse the concept and become socially hyper-destructive and develop "crab mentality"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality

[renogaza]

for the lolz

www.collegehumor.com/.../we-didnt-start-the-flame-war

[Asker]

Liposuction does work. The fat cells are gone. But if you still keep eating, your other fat cells start growing before it needs to form new ones all over your body.

BMI doesn't determine whether someone's fit or not, because it doesn't measure how much weight comes from fat and how much from muscles, bones etc. Bodybuilders are overweight if you only go by their BMI which is laughable because they have almost no fat on their bodies. Someone with a healthy BMI of 21, but not working out for one second has more fat than those 'overweight' bodybuilders.

[renogaza]

liposuction doesn't work, its a surgery that removes fat cells in your body, not fat, fat cells are cells which are part of your body and for most people are empty sacs, fat is stored within these cells are the same ones removed, your body needs fat cells to operate so immediately after surgery it will start to regenerate all the lost cells, and during this healing period the patient is very susceptible to gaining lots of weight very fast even while dieting, its a system that doesn't work and i've seen plenty of people who had to redo the surgery several times to make it permanent (and by permanent that's the point when your fat cells no longer regenerate which is very bad)

as for BMI, actually it does whether you believe it or not, you're thinking fit in the BMI scale is bony thin with no fat, but thats actually very unhealthy, the recommended value is 12 - 18% fat value of your own body weight, 25% is chubby, 30% is fat, 40% is obese and 50% above is ridiculous (imagine fat bastard)

[renogaza]

even for fat people the value in average is 25% to 35%, 50% above is among the very rarely achieved

a healthy individual requires fat to survive, the proper value is 12% at absolute minimum and upto 18%-20% max depending on their metabolism, 25% is not unhealthy but people in this weight should be concerned, 30% is obese for most people, 40% is very obese and most are required to exercise to prevent complications, 50% is dangerously obese, most in this bracket dont live very long, the table doesn't go any higher than 50% because this is already considered twice your proper bodyweight, dont try to argue with the science of physical health.

[renogaza]

also people who exercise too much and have so much muscle and practically no fat are also considered unhealthy since fat is required to have stamina, without it their huge muscles are pretty worthless (especially with endurance) and they start using drugs to keep going, having no fat is just as bad as having too much no matter what body build you are.

[Laura1995]

Because when bigger women call themselves curvy, it takes away the true meaning.
I know the difference between curvy and fat. Either way, nobody should bashed because of their weight or body shape.

I'm chubby and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I know it's my fault.

[Kyndra]

Those type of girls usually bash other people for being skinny, saying they are what guys want now (like that matters) while in fact they're usually overweight girls, hiding behind something else.

[Asker]

Ok, if they do what you accuse them of doing, then I get why you're pissed off.

[renogaza]

i second that statement, there are quite a few here in gag who did that and too many irl, i want to sleep tonight so i'll refrain from ranting about it for now

[hiphopapotomaus]

I just wish we would all stop body-shaming people!
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[Anonymous]

Because for a long time, because of fat girls, everybody assumed you were a fatty if you described your body as curvy.
I don't get what fat girls don't just say fat or chubby or whatever instead of pretending they're curvy or thick... that being said, i have seen fat girls with curves... It's just, if you are just a fat round ball, you aren't curvy, if you're an hourglass shape with ass and tits, you're curvy.

They just ruined the word man...

[madhatters4]

people spend too much time concerning themselves with others. who cares what another person considers themselves. the only thing that matters is what you think of yourself.

[Anonymous]

I think it is disgusting how people care what label women put on themselves. If she thinks she is curvy it is non of your businesses unless you have some mental illness and hate for anything different then yourself. I have been called fat pig even by strangers and I am 13 pounds or 0.9 stones overweight from today's beauty standard. And I think it is time to change this shallow point of view - why should we be only accepted to look like models or have standard what Beautiful woman is? In Renaissance Fat girls were considered healthy and beautiful, that point of view is fashion nothing else. Why should you who post this picture think anything bad about another persons body, why should woman feel comfortable in their body's , why the poster has a need to hate someone just because her/his body. You have MENTAL ISSUES folks!

[Anonymous]

Both extremes of way underweight and morbidly obese are unhealthy. Truly obese people are not doing themselves any favors by pretending that it's not a problem, but just an expression of who they are. Obesity is an epidemic in the US. It's not cool... It's not a fashion statement.

[Asker]

I agree. I just don't get why it's not okay to call out one type of unhealthy as unhealthy while it's okay to rip the other type of unhealthy apart for doing basically the same thing.

[Anonymous]

Agreed.

I don't get why people are so pathetic, that they need other people to feel bad about themselves, before they are happy themselves. It's disgusting how if someone calls themselves curvy, others have to get them to think about themselves as fat cows, just because that's the truth. Just mind your own damn business, and let them be happy, referring to themselves however they want to.

[CHARismatic110]

Because apparently when "fat" people call themselves curvy, it ruins the "real" meaning of the word. I'm not gonna get into it, as I've commented on endless posts like this. Just know that you're fighting a losing battle with this topic.

[Asker]

I noticed. Hardly anyone bothers to comment on my second example that ruins the 'real' meaning of a word too.

[CHARismatic110]

People feel how they feel. Really can't do too much to change it. Everyone has their own ideas of what curvy is.

[front2back]

It's because it's like when a guy who's 130lbs calls himself "ripped", when in reality he's just so skinny his muscles look big. Fat women call themselves "curvy", when in reality they have so much fat in rolls into a curvy shapes.

[Asker]

so the girl in the example is fat, not curvy?

[StickStickity13]

Well when a real Curvy girl mentions she's Curvy, now I assume she's fat. It hurts truly Curvy women. Just mention what you are, if you're fat, then you're fat

[Asker]

I am truly curvy if it's defined by waist to hip ratio and I am not hurt one bit.

[StickStickity13]

If you have a flabby stomach, it takes that privilege away.

[Asker]

It's not.

[StickStickity13]

Then I'll take your word for it

[Mesonfielde]

Depends on how flabby. A bit of it just makes them more attractive to me, and you don't seem to mind giving the opportunity over :3

[been_waiting]

Why is it so hard for you to believe a woman can be slim without photoshop is my question

[Asker]

Why is it so hard for you to believe that all females in ads are photoshopped to some extent?

[been_waiting]

Um I definitely understand that.
But you said the only difference between the slim curvy girl and the obese one was photoshop, meaning she'd be just as fat without it. See the problem...

[Asker]

Yeah, I've worded it poorly. What I meant to say is it seems like the only big difference between them is the waist area that can be corrected with liposuction, and some airbrushing like in the first pic. I didn't mean to imply that the first girl had liposuction.

[been_waiting]

But you implied the first girl is obese without photoshop lol

[Asker]

Oh. I meant to say smooth skin and edgeless shape. Small correction like this.
lh3.ggpht.com/.../photoshop_makes_it_cool_9.jpg
She isn't obese to me, just full-figured.

[wethepeople87]

The Woman on the left is skinny not Curvy. She has no hips or breasts definition. Now the woman on the right has breasts and hips the only difference is she's not tone. Also these pictures are Photoshop.

[Asker]

You should leave satire to miss anon under 18.

[wethepeople87]

Yeah thanks

[meatballs21]

It’s denial, misguidedly fighting back in the name of ‘loving and accepting themselves’ rather than admitting they might have a health problem.

[Endeavor]

Some people have to call others out on their delusions. Good for them.

[chadsten]

People get mad for everything.

[Anonymous]

Lol they're in denial and it helps boost self esteem

[Kalinda]

You didn't read the question. Go back and read :)

[Opinion Owner]

If they have a pretty face I'd bang em, as long as they're not morbidly obese

[jmmmfi]

the truth hurts

[Asker]

As someone who can comfortably fit in Koreans 'one size fits all' clothes, I have no idea what's you're trying to say.