Would you ever date a fat or obese person?

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ILMA... hey... that might stick!

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well it doesn't change what I said, until stores and companies start using the system.. and we start teaching it in primary school.. no one's going to use it in the US. Doesn't mean it cannot change.. I mean.. hey.. Soccer is the fastest growing sport in the US right now.. and who would have ever thought that..

Yeah im between 2-3 as well the highest I would date would be a 6.

No, I would not, as I've never been sexually attracted to fat or obese people - not even when I was overweight myself. I have fat/obese friends & family members and have no particular problems with them, but I wouldn't date one because they're simply not my type & sexual attraction/aesthetic preferences are an important criteria in choosing someone that I would date. Body composition might not be important to some people, but it is to me & that's all there is to it. It just is what it is.

I love the business expression, "change or die." I hope those that are too stubborn to adapt fall by the wayside where they belong. As you said, economics will dictate these changes.. but flat out resistance to change is hilarious, especially since metric measurements are far simpler & superior in many ways. Why bother with all the imperial conversions when the USA doesn't even have a Monarch? Living where I do, I'm familiar with both imperial & metric measurements and conversions for pretty well everything. Groceries are sold with dual labels. Ditto with fluids. Construction drawings are being done in metric more and more, but materials are still produced and sold in imperial, and most guys with hands on tools use imperial measurement & only bother with metric when they have to do a few conversions to figure out material quantities. I find it rather interesting that some things are bought & sold in a hybrid blend of metric and imperial measurement, and other very similar things in one or the other depending on quantity. The best example are drugs. Legal ones are all in metric, as we take milligrams of medication, as the metric system is far superior for measuring things in very small amounts. Illegal ones are sold in a hybrid of grams in low quantity, and ounces or portions of lbs, or lbs are higher quantities.. but then other illegal drugs are sold in tenths of a gram, grams, ounces, but then have nothing to do with pounds & are only ever referred to in large quantities as being sold in kilograms. Interesting stuff indeed.

Overall I don't really care which measurements are used for anything so long as I know what they are. Give me a recipe with cups and ounces and teaspoons and tablespoons and I'll cook something up. Give me the same recipe with grams and millilitres and I'll do the same. It seems kind of odd to me that others don't bother to just learn both measurement systems so that they can be flexible and work with whichever one works best in the moment, ie metric in anything scientific, imperial for anything construction.. etc. There's a time and a place for either until there's one clear dominant measurement system that everyone is familiar with. Maybe it'll be metric and my ability to adapt to either in this current hybrid system is just a coping mechanism I'm using to deal with the imperial system before it finally goes through it's final death throws... which won't happen until the construction industry figures out how to properly apply the metric system. ret*d to sell a 4x8 sheet as a 1200x2400mm making it a daunting task for laymen to calculate anything meaningful from measurements in mm that should have been done in m from the get-go, making it a 1.2x2.4m sheet & much simpler to do basic math with.

please allow the thread to go back on topic or the discussion about the metric system will be removed to its own thread.

here is a handy converter for anyone struggling to understand the weights and measures:

http://www.metric-conversions.org/converter.htm

10 pages in one day - and still not locked. (Did anyone take IlovemyAspie's bet? )

Yes to the original question, because I actually find them attractive (some of them).

A useful way to make the question more specific - thanks. Potentially I'd date someone from 2 to 9 on that chart, but the the probability of me finding them attractive is not linear - it's a curve, peaking at 6-7.

By the way, I don't find it in any way "hypocritical" for a fat person to only be attracted to thin people. You have no control over who you are attracted to - it is what it is. Since there is no choice no hypocrisy is possible. Of course, you can choose to date someone you're not attracted to, at least not physically, but if we interpret the question "would you date..." this way then the whole thread is pointless. So I'm interpreting the question as "would you be physically attracted enough to date..."

Edit: well, the thread was 10 pages, but seems to have shrunk.

You are more flexible than I.
I do not think I could go over 3. I prefer the girl to be the same as me or thinner. Not too gaunt and malnurished of course.

on that scale, i wont go for a 1, and a 2 will be limiting.
i am quite large and have trouble dosing my strength, so i'd be afraid to hurt or even break anyone below a 3...
that said, a 6 is the upper limit, anything higher just looks unhealthy (well, so does a 1)
i myself am about a 4-5, for comparison

That is understandable and I agree, im between 2-3 but anything above 6 is indeed unhealthy! The highest id go for would be 6. As for partner being below 3 it might work out just have to have the partner on top etc.

Standards have certainly changed over the years, as our nation has fattened up.

Behold, for example, these guys:



By today's standards, they are down in Category 1 or 2. Someone feed them some big macs, french fries, jumbo cokes, and piles of other high-carbohydrate/low nutrient foods right now, so that they will go up the scale and appear healthier!

Half a century ago, no-one would have considered them to be so thin that they could hire themselves out as sideshow freaks.

Behold the supersize David

Something being a "trend" doesn't make it any healthier.

And jeez, if Beatles are "sideshow freaks", what am I?

Culture has a lot to do with what is desirable,I had a shrink from Peru,I told him I wanted to lose twenty pounds,he looked horrified and said"Oh,No,NO!!"
And bone structure,I have a stocky build and once when I weighed around 115 the only comments I got was that I looked too skinny for my frame.
I'm happy to be pleasantly plump.
More cushion for the pushing

Thank you for articulating what a lot of people fail to realize. I concur wholly with you on this.

So... if she had the body of Christina Hendriks, Beyonce, Kate Upton but the most beautiful face and character ever.. would you not date her?