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 Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:05 am
So, I don't know how many of you will really care about this topic... buuuuuut, I figured I'd make it, anyways.
I was on another site earlier and I found a group for skinny girls. Now normally I don't think of skinny girls as needing support... why would they? They're lives are perfect, right? Well, these might have been the skinnier than normal girls, too... the ones that look like they might have an eating disorder when they really are just naturally that way.
I found a topic about how skinny girls get made fun of so much, told that they need to eat more or asked if they're anorexic. I've never done this, so I guess I assumed it doesn't happen to them. I lie, I had a friend in highschool who was like that, she would eat tons and couldn't gain weight... which I actually felt bad for her for, since I much prefer having curves.
Anyways, they were all complaining about it, saying how frustraiting it was, etc... and I just found it so weird. They even compaired memberships between the skinny girls group and the plus-sized women group (which had about 6k members on them...although thousands have been weeded out recently probably since that comment was made, members that were inactive). So often I hear people say "real women have curves" and they brought that up, asking what that made them... Like I said, I found it surreal.
But then I'm brought back to the multiple times I've heard of confident skinny (well, healthy) girls put in fat suits and sent out into the world... even before anybody else made fun of them, they were sobbing and crying... and this is a reality fat girls have to live with everyday, we can't just take off the fat suit.
So my discussion is:
1)Do they have any right to complain?
2)Do you think the teasing and taunting they get is half as bad as the teasing and taunting fat girls get?
3)How screwed up is society that nothing ever seems to be good enough? When you're too fat you need to be skinnier, when you're an average healthy weight you have to be skinnier, when you're finally skinnier you have to gain weight?
4)Have you ever seriously asked a girl if she's anorexic, honestly thought it wasn't rude, and not meant it as an insult?
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:22 pm
I think they have a right to complain, but not as much as bigger people do. I'm sure also that the teasing and harrassment they get is not half as bad as we get. Yes, people may assume they are anorexic, but their body image is pasted and repeated on the cover of every magazine and I'm sure they are still considered attractive by our ******** society's standards. Fat girls (and guys) are considered "disgusting" all around. Our society is really, really a mess for all of this, and it isn't fair to anyone. People should just be happy with their bodies regardless of size or shape. And I have never asked a skinny girl that, seriously or no. I don't have many friends that would make me worry that about them.
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:06 pm
I think they have a right to complain.
I mean, if I was super skinny (I'm hourglass, really odd. My boobs are getting huge and my sides are kinda like getting more rounded but I've actually lost 6 pounds since christmas O_o;; ), I'd be complaining too.
Reasons why:
-People would always go 'Hmmph, that girl gets to be skinny and beautiful, so she must be a b***h.'
-People would always go 'LOL, EAT SOME FOOD.'
-Possible lack of boobs/a**.
-Parents badgering you about being anorexic when you're not.
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:51 pm
The greater opression of one group does not mean that another group has no legitimacy to claims of oppression. Maybe black people are more often subject to racial discrimination, but that doesn't make the claims of white people in predominately black communities invalid.
The fact that thin girls are teased, even if it's less than fat girls, should be a cause for common support, since both mockery of girls for being big and for being thing are acts opposing size acceptance.
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:16 am
Gah, haven't had time to type out a well-thought out response to the comments, and now I'm still too tired from yesterday sweatdrop
I do feel bad for them, but they seemed really angry and I don't think I would have reacted that angrily to the stuff they're getting comments on. Of course, I don't react that angrily to the comments I get... but I do feel fat girls have it worse... a lot worse. I was made to feel guilty for even existing, they're just told to eat more.
I think it's obvious I think it's ridiculous, though... I mean, nothing is ever good enough.
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:28 pm
ANOTHER REASON WHY BEING SKINNY SUCKS.
I'm a skinny-ish 'hot' girl who loves chubby guys.
Do the much-needed chubby guys come flocking to me like they should be?
No.
Because they're afraid of rejection.
So they're like 'OMG attractive girls don't like me D:'
I'm like 'Noooooo, come back ;_; I <3 you ;_;'
So all I get are skinny guys. ]:
Which can be okay, but I much prefer chubby guys.
]':
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:41 pm
Chachamaru-kun ANOTHER REASON WHY BEING SKINNY SUCKS.
I'm a skinny-ish 'hot' girl who loves chubby guys.
Do the much-needed chubby guys come flocking to me like they should be?
No.
Because they're afraid of rejection.
So they're like 'OMG attractive girls don't like me D:'
I'm like 'Noooooo, come back ;_; I <3 you ;_;'
So all I get are skinny guys. ]:
Which can be okay, but I much prefer chubby guys.
]':
Go after the chubby guys?
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:24 pm
The Dread Pirate Ghosty Chachamaru-kun ANOTHER REASON WHY BEING SKINNY SUCKS.
I'm a skinny-ish 'hot' girl who loves chubby guys.
Do the much-needed chubby guys come flocking to me like they should be?
No.
Because they're afraid of rejection.
So they're like 'OMG attractive girls don't like me D:'
I'm like 'Noooooo, come back ;_; I <3 you ;_;'
So all I get are skinny guys. ]:
Which can be okay, but I much prefer chubby guys.
]':
Go after the chubby guys?
I kinda had to do that with my boyfriend becuase I knew he'd never ask me out otherwise.
I was like 'YOU. BE MY BOYFRIEND. NOW.'
And he was like 'a- asdas- fasfs- okay. o///o;;'
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:56 am
Chachamaru-kun The Dread Pirate Ghosty I kinda had to do that with my boyfriend becuase I knew he'd never ask me out otherwise. I was like 'YOU. BE MY BOYFRIEND. NOW.' And he was like 'a- asdas- fasfs- okay. o///o;;'
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:12 pm
LOL Thats how I had to chase down my boyfriend. He is so quiet and shy that he hardly even looked at me the first time I started talking to him. Now he says he cant take his eyes off of me. ^///^ I love it though.
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:29 pm
The Dread Pirate Ghosty Now normally I don't think of skinny girls as needing support... why would they? They're lives are perfect, right? i didn't read past that sentance, its almost offensive you have no right to judge other peoples lives based on their weight
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:42 pm
Leviticus can shove it i didn't read past that sentance, its almost offensive you have no right to judge other peoples lives based on their weight
I thought I'd mention it in a group for plus-sized people, to get them thinking about how life is for people who aren't plus-sized. You know, get opinions from people who bother to read everything before jumping to conclusions.
Second, if you have ever read ANYTHING I have ever posted in this group, I don't say things to be offensive... and I don't judge others based on silly superficial things.
Before jumping to conclusions, get all your facts straight. Knowledge is power, after all. Instead you chose to shut yourself out to ideas and get the wrong impression. Maybe next time you should make sure you get as much of the story as you're given. I have skinny friends whom I adore.
Some things I've said in this thread alone:Quote: 3)How screwed up is society that nothing ever seems to be good enough? When you're too fat you need to be skinnier, when you're an average healthy weight you have to be skinnier, when you're finally skinnier you have to gain weight? 4)Have you ever seriously asked a girl if she's anorexic, honestly thought it wasn't rude, and not meant it as an insult? Quote: I think it's obvious I think it's ridiculous, though... I mean, nothing is ever good enough.
And you have no right to lecture me about what I said when you didn't bother to read everything. That just makes you look bad.
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:34 pm
I think they have a right to complain. As you've pointed out before Ghosty, nothing seems to be good enough. You have to be just so in order to be beautiful which is a load of horse crap. Skinny, Fat, Tall, Short, Red head and Freckled, Brunette and Pale... people are beautiful in their own ways but sometimes it seems like the majority of the population doesn't think so.
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:20 am
honestly...i've asked a girl if she had a eating disorder once....and it turned out she did. so i ended up helping a friend. I think that alot of people are just generally closed minded and that makes them take it out on other people. Itz like they'll never be a "just right" size for girls because people are alwayz like "ur so fat" or "you need a donut skeletor" ....i think the really skinny girls have a right to complain cuz this world is just cruel. but in reality, i think the bigger women have it alot harder and have much more right to d so...
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:35 am
Skinny girls get some guff, but a skinny girl who goes onto an FA or feeder site and complains about not being liked deserves nothing other than a swift hard thwack with a freshly caught perch.
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