She's too skinny...

mood

April O Neill wrote: »

I know, that's why I said:



I think it's good that the fact that slim women get insulted is being acknowledged but there seems to be a push to claim it happens more than overweight women receiving comments, something I simply don't believe.

The nature of comments differ a bit, but overweight women can receive insidious comments too, as a post by Ms. Flitworth earlier in the thread shows, as well as outrightly insulting ones.

Sorry. I picked it up wrong.

There is no way to know who gets 'comments' more to be honest.

Maybe we should be discussing what to say the to those people who through around horrible comments. Any ideas? I have often wanted to say 'stop being such a b*tch' or pass personal remarks back but didn't.

Magenta

borderlinemeath wrote: »

She has a really fast metabolism and stresses a lot about various things. For breakfast she has toast or if she's running late she gets a croissant or a danish in the shop, she has mid morning snacks then lunch is usually something like soup & sambo or pasta, for her dinner she has potatoes, veg and meat or fish. She loves chinese takeaway and chipper chips and I've seen her put away a big bag of kettle chips all by herself.

There's no hidden disorder or anything like that, she genuinely stresses about her lack of weight and how bad she looks.

Has she had blood tests done, for example for an overactive thyroid?

April O Neill

mood wrote: »

Maybe we should be discussing what to say the to those people who through around horrible comments. Any ideas? I have often wanted to say 'stop being such a b*tch' or pass personal remarks back but didn't.

I dunno, there's always going to be bitchy, horrible people unfortunately, so maybe just facing them head-on?

mood

I've always just ignored it and not let it bother me but sometimes it does. If it happens again I'm going to just tell the person how rude they are.

Madam_X

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

hated being called a skinny bitch in haha only joking tones, and crap like that. It hurt, the tone was sometimes jealousy but sometimes disgust. Nobody ever says anything like that directly to an overweight person's face, whatever about behind their back.

To be fair, they do. The context is gonna be different, but it does happen. And neither is cool.

Aoifums

I've had relatives telling me that I've gotten so skinny. It's annoying but I smile and nod over most of their comments. It would annoy me way more if random strangers did it.
I really wish people wouldn't say anything. I don't know anyone who isn't at least a little self-conscious about their weight so it's not exactly the nicest compliment someone can give.

borderlinemeath

Magenta wrote: »

Has she had blood tests done, for example for an overactive thyroid?

She had tests done years ago, don't know whether thyroid was done but she does go to the doctor if she needs to.