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07 Dec 2010, 12:48 am

It depends, there's a limit on both sides for me. I don't like the super-thin runway model types, but I don't like the very very large ones either. I think it's my dislike of extremes in general. I like moderation, and too fat and too thin are both equally unattractive. Being able to see a girl's shoulder blades or ribs is a major turnoff for me (makes me think of skeletons) and so is not being able to tell waist from hips. Beyond that, it's really about other things for me. The shape of a girls face, her eyes, her hair.



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07 Dec 2010, 3:00 am

I notice every day that there a lot more fat people around then when I was a kid.

I also notice that most of them are women. Sure there a lot of overweight men but far more women fall into the obese class than men.

It makes me sad when I see really fat teenage girls (or boys). I can see that they would be good looking if they weren't 100 pounds overweight.

It makes me even sadder when I see a big fat mother and a big fat father with their big fat little children.

I think: "Those kids have no chance. They will not grow up to be sports stars. No one will want to go out with them and they will die early.

Not to mention the job market. If two people apply for a job and one of them is slim and well groomed while the other is a big tub of lard, what do you think will happen?



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07 Dec 2010, 3:14 am

Wombat wrote:
I notice every day that there a lot more fat people around then when I was a kid.

I also notice that most of them are women. Sure there a lot of overweight men but far more women fall into the obese class than men.

It makes me sad when I see really fat teenage girls (or boys). I can see that they would be good looking if they weren't 100 pounds overweight.

It makes me even sadder when I see a big fat mother and a big fat father with their big fat little children.

I think: "Those kids have no chance. They will not grow up to be sports stars. No one will want to go out with them and they will die early.

Not to mention the job market. If two people apply for a job and one of them is slim and well groomed while the other is a big tub of lard, what do you think will happen?

I blame cable TV, the fast food industry, and non-transit friendly and non-walkable/bikeable communities amongst the reasons why America's become a fat country.

I've haven't gotten my blood moving lately, it's high time for me to hit up the gym tomorrow night.



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07 Dec 2010, 5:08 am

Nice to see some guys don't mind curves in the wrong places. I'm very self concious especially about my middle and upper arms.

I'd take a pudgy guy over a skinny guy, but its a personal taste thing.



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07 Dec 2010, 8:47 am

Wombat wrote:
I think: "Those kids have no chance. They will not grow up to be sports stars.


If not being a sports star is one of the biggest losses I'll face as a fat person,
I can live with that. lulz


Wombat wrote:
If two people apply for a job and one of them is slim and well groomed while the other is a big tub of lard, what do you think will happen?


Careful. You're bordering on bigotry.


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07 Dec 2010, 8:50 am

Bethie wrote:
Wombat wrote:
I think: "Those kids have no chance. They will not grow up to be sports stars.


If not being a sports star is one of the biggest losses I'll face as a fat person,
I can live with that. lulz


Wombat wrote:
If two people apply for a job and one of them is slim and well groomed while the other is a big tub of lard, what do you think will happen?


Careful. You're bordering on bigotry.


:lol: people apparently only want to go out with sports stars though. :roll:



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07 Dec 2010, 8:51 am

emlion wrote:
Bethie wrote:
Wombat wrote:
I think: "Those kids have no chance. They will not grow up to be sports stars.


If not being a sports star is one of the biggest losses I'll face as a fat person,
I can live with that. lulz


Wombat wrote:
If two people apply for a job and one of them is slim and well groomed while the other is a big tub of lard, what do you think will happen?


Careful. You're bordering on bigotry.


:lol: people apparently only want to go out with sports stars though. :roll:



lol :lol:


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11 Dec 2010, 12:08 am

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I also notice that most of them are women. Sure there a lot of overweight men but far more women fall into the obese class than men.

there is a 2% difference in the percentage of obese men and women in the united states. 2% more women does not equal "far more women" by anyone's standards - in fact the difference would not be discernible in a crowd. nice try with your attempt to disrespect women... again.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/world ... 24885.html

EDIT: in canada in 2004, the male and female obesity rates are less than 1% apart (somewhere around 0.3%).
2nd EDIT: one year later, more men than women were obese.


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11 Dec 2010, 4:02 am

Yeah I definitely like women that are bigger (whereas I'm tall and slimmish myself).
Skinny girls are OK, its just that women with curves make me feel glad I'm alive :D . Christina Hendricks for example.
Yay for curves!



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13 Dec 2010, 8:11 am

I'm really sorry, but I can't resist the urge to post this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnjF1O4eH0[/youtube]

As somebody said before, i like curvy women, no matter if they are voluptuous or slender. In other words, healthy women.



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13 Dec 2010, 9:13 am

nostromo wrote:
Yeah I definitely like women that are bigger (whereas I'm tall and slimmish myself).
Skinny girls are OK, its just that women with curves make me feel glad I'm alive :D . Christina Hendricks for example.
Yay for curves!


Christina Hendricks is SO sexy!

Yeah, I'm with you. I prefer girls to be curvy. I think Sara Ramirez is really hot. That kind of body is awesome.



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13 Dec 2010, 11:18 am

Skeletal or voluptuous, it's all fine with me as long as a woman takes care of herself physically; there are much more important things than looks.

But I'm sorry, there is nothing "beautiful" about heart disease, type-II diabetes, kidney failure, cancer, and premature death.

If that makes me "shallow" then I'm guilty as charged: if you want to kill yourself with food, do it on someone else's time...



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13 Dec 2010, 2:24 pm

Kiseki wrote:
nostromo wrote:
Yeah I definitely like women that are bigger (whereas I'm tall and slimmish myself).
Skinny girls are OK, its just that women with curves make me feel glad I'm alive :D . Christina Hendricks for example.
Yay for curves!


Christina Hendricks is SO sexy!

Yeah, I'm with you. I prefer girls to be curvy. I think Sara Ramirez is really hot. That kind of body is awesome.


Christina Hendricks probably isn't even anywhere near overweight. She just has curves. Everyone who likes women, likes women who look like that. I wouldn't think of her as chubby in a million years.

I'm chubby. I'm overweight with no boobs. I don't call myself a BBW because they're usually really big women and because I know that it's things other than my body shape that make me attractive.



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13 Dec 2010, 2:32 pm

puddingmouse wrote:
Kiseki wrote:
nostromo wrote:
Yeah I definitely like women that are bigger (whereas I'm tall and slimmish myself).
Skinny girls are OK, its just that women with curves make me feel glad I'm alive :D . Christina Hendricks for example.
Yay for curves!


Christina Hendricks is SO sexy!

Yeah, I'm with you. I prefer girls to be curvy. I think Sara Ramirez is really hot. That kind of body is awesome.


Christina Hendricks probably isn't even anywhere near overweight. She just has curves. Everyone who likes women, likes women who look like that. I wouldn't think of her as chubby in a million years.

I'm chubby. I'm overweight with no boobs. I don't call myself a BBW because they're usually really big women and because I know that it's things other than my body shape that make me attractive.

Alright just to clarify, IMO Queen Latifa - hottie, nom nom nom!



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13 Dec 2010, 9:05 pm

Grisha wrote:
Skeletal or voluptuous, it's all fine with me as long as a woman takes care of herself physically; there are much more important things than looks.

But I'm sorry, there is nothing "beautiful" about heart disease, type-II diabetes, kidney failure, cancer, and premature death.

If that makes me "shallow" then I'm guilty as charged: if you want to kill yourself with food, do it on someone else's time...

i would take the word shallow out of quotation marks, maybe. it's really about your own personal aesthetic preferences. which is fine, but call a spade a spade.

skeletal can just as unhealthy as overweight, and notably, if you have a heart attack, you are more likely to survive if you are overweight than if you are skinny or ideal weight.

anyway, alcohol consumption costs the american health care system a lot more every year than obesity. so if you are even a moderate drinker, you could be causing an undue burden on the health care system. people being overweight does not equal killing themselves with food.


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13 Dec 2010, 9:36 pm

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people being overweight does not equal killing themselves with food.


I'm not going to argue with you, but this is the source I relied upon if you're interested:

http://www.ajpm-online.net/webfiles/ima ... RE2701.pdf

It's a leading peer-reviewed journal.