Skinny is the new moral/hard working and all other kind of superiority?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Newsflash, because you did not put ice cream in your mouth today doesn't make you morally superior to a person that did have ice cream today.
If you think it does, you are the person I am talking about. Prig that thinks eating a certain way and looking a certain way makes you better than those that are a bit heavier.

So then what does it make you if you chose to continue to do things bad for your body when you are already at an unhealthy weight? I wouldn’t say it is a moral issue. But it is an issue..

Human, it makes you human. Just like being ocd and forbidding yourself food is human.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Newsflash, because you did not put ice cream in your mouth today doesn't make you morally superior to a person that did have ice cream today.
If you think it does, you are the person I am talking about. Prig that thinks eating a certain way and looking a certain way makes you better than those that are a bit heavier.

So then what does it make you if you chose to continue to do things bad for your body when you are already at an unhealthy weight? I wouldn’t say it is a moral issue. But it is an issue..

Do we really need to put a label on it? Why simple fact of eating scoop of ice cream should be judged and called an issue.

DP - If you want to eat ice cream knowing its unhealthy, then just do it and own it. Why do you care what other people think? You like the ice cream and want to eat it and apparently don't care about the consequences, but you're worried someone else is giving you the time of day to care more than you do about your own health? It's not happening nearly as much as you think it is.

Eating ice cream is not unhealthy. Eating ice cream should not be some kind of a guilt full activity that you will end up in hell for.
You are exactly the type of morally superior nasty person that is the topic of this thread. Nobody should ever give anyone a hard time or a time of day for their eating choices. But, you are. Because you are not the morally superior person that you think you are. If you were a morally decent person, you would never have posted such a nasty and judgy post.
Ugly.

[Anonymous]

My experience in life is that thin women very rarely think they are more moral or virtuous than other people. I'm a thin person and while I exercise and try to eat a nutritious diet, I know that my thinness is largely the result of luck and genetics. I've never assumed I was better than anyone because of my weight. I have fat people in my immediate family and I've seen firsthand how terribly they can be treated and how little people understand about fatness and weight loss. I've also seen how self-punishing they can be because of their weight and I never, ever want to add to anyone's negative self image.

But after years of being around women a lot, and thus hearing lots of women talk about bodies and weight loss, my observation is that the women who are most invested in the "thin=moral superiority" myth are people who are not naturally thin but who are close enough to thinness the they can achieve it through dieting, exercise (sometimes excessive amounts of both, sometimes not). I think this group drives the entire attitude because they are the one group who can say thinness is something you can achieve through hard work. Naturally thin people don't think this (we are thin regardless). And people who are actually fat usually understand that there are limits to how thin they will ever be, even with extreme interventions.

But women who are naturally a size 6 or 8, but can diet and exercise down to a 0 or 2, tend to be the most complimentary of my body, like it's an achievement (it's not). They also tend to be the most irritated when they discover that I don't have to diet to maintain a size 0. And they also tend to have the harshest things to say about people who are heavier than they are. Or they tend to say nasty or critical things about other women's bodies, commenting on someone's postpartum belly or the cellulite on someone's legs, stuff that it would never occur to me to point out because it seems cruel and tacky.

If anything comes from the body acceptance movement, I hope it's for women in this category (healthy weights but not necessarily thin) to just accept that they don't actually "need" to lose 20 pounds. And to stop tormenting the rest of us over that 20 pounds. Not everyone needs to be really thin. There are lots of different kinds of healthy bodies. And if your body isn't healthy, that's really your business and its unlikely that it's a simple fix that you are too lazy to implement -- most people want to be healthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Newsflash, because you did not put ice cream in your mouth today doesn't make you morally superior to a person that did have ice cream today.
If you think it does, you are the person I am talking about. Prig that thinks eating a certain way and looking a certain way makes you better than those that are a bit heavier.

So then what does it make you if you chose to continue to do things bad for your body when you are already at an unhealthy weight? I wouldn’t say it is a moral issue. But it is an issue..

Do we really need to put a label on it? Why simple fact of eating scoop of ice cream should be judged and called an issue.

DP - If you want to eat ice cream knowing its unhealthy, then just do it and own it. Why do you care what other people think? You like the ice cream and want to eat it and apparently don't care about the consequences, but you're worried someone else is giving you the time of day to care more than you do about your own health? It's not happening nearly as much as you think it is.

Eating ice cream is not unhealthy. Eating ice cream should not be some kind of a guilt full activity that you will end up in hell for.
You are exactly the type of morally superior nasty person that is the topic of this thread. Nobody should ever give anyone a hard time or a time of day for their eating choices. But, you are. Because you are not the morally superior person that you think you are. If you were a morally decent person, you would never have posted such a nasty and judgy post.
Ugly.

Eating ice cream isn’t unhealthy, but if you are obese and eating a triple scoop waffle cone, then yes I will judge you. But you know that. Don’t worry, I will also judge a thin person doing them same, because eating that much is pretty gross no matter your size

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My experience in life is that thin women very rarely think they are more moral or virtuous than other people. I'm a thin person and while I exercise and try to eat a nutritious diet, I know that my thinness is largely the result of luck and genetics. I've never assumed I was better than anyone because of my weight. I have fat people in my immediate family and I've seen firsthand how terribly they can be treated and how little people understand about fatness and weight loss. I've also seen how self-punishing they can be because of their weight and I never, ever want to add to anyone's negative self image.

But after years of being around women a lot, and thus hearing lots of women talk about bodies and weight loss, my observation is that the women who are most invested in the "thin=moral superiority" myth are people who are not naturally thin but who are close enough to thinness the they can achieve it through dieting, exercise (sometimes excessive amounts of both, sometimes not). I think this group drives the entire attitude because they are the one group who can say thinness is something you can achieve through hard work. Naturally thin people don't think this (we are thin regardless). And people who are actually fat usually understand that there are limits to how thin they will ever be, even with extreme interventions.

But women who are naturally a size 6 or 8, but can diet and exercise down to a 0 or 2, tend to be the most complimentary of my body, like it's an achievement (it's not). They also tend to be the most irritated when they discover that I don't have to diet to maintain a size 0. And they also tend to have the harshest things to say about people who are heavier than they are. Or they tend to say nasty or critical things about other women's bodies, commenting on someone's postpartum belly or the cellulite on someone's legs, stuff that it would never occur to me to point out because it seems cruel and tacky.

If anything comes from the body acceptance movement, I hope it's for women in this category (healthy weights but not necessarily thin) to just accept that they don't actually "need" to lose 20 pounds. And to stop tormenting the rest of us over that 20 pounds. Not everyone needs to be really thin. There are lots of different kinds of healthy bodies. And if your body isn't healthy, that's really your business and its unlikely that it's a simple fix that you are too lazy to implement -- most people want to be healthy.

I read your first paragraph and stopped at you calling your family fat.
You are pretty bad too. Didn't read the rest of your post since you clearly are judgy and regardless of your statements you used thin for yourself and fat for them. Forget societal politeness, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Newsflash, because you did not put ice cream in your mouth today doesn't make you morally superior to a person that did have ice cream today.
If you think it does, you are the person I am talking about. Prig that thinks eating a certain way and looking a certain way makes you better than those that are a bit heavier.

So then what does it make you if you chose to continue to do things bad for your body when you are already at an unhealthy weight? I wouldn’t say it is a moral issue. But it is an issue..

Do we really need to put a label on it? Why simple fact of eating scoop of ice cream should be judged and called an issue.

DP - If you want to eat ice cream knowing its unhealthy, then just do it and own it. Why do you care what other people think? You like the ice cream and want to eat it and apparently don't care about the consequences, but you're worried someone else is giving you the time of day to care more than you do about your own health? It's not happening nearly as much as you think it is.

I don't really care one way or another what people think about what I do, as in I would do it regardless of their opinion.

I'm just curious why they think it's OK to judge, and why they feel the need for the lable on other people actions.

Um, I'm not judging. I don't really care what you eat. I may just assume you know better but just don't care, so why should I? But you know you judge people for other reasons. People judge. If my kids were running around screaming at the ice cream parlor you'd be judging me. There's no guarantee of a judgment free society. Make your decisions and move along.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Newsflash, because you did not put ice cream in your mouth today doesn't make you morally superior to a person that did have ice cream today.
If you think it does, you are the person I am talking about. Prig that thinks eating a certain way and looking a certain way makes you better than those that are a bit heavier.

So then what does it make you if you chose to continue to do things bad for your body when you are already at an unhealthy weight? I wouldn’t say it is a moral issue. But it is an issue..

Do we really need to put a label on it? Why simple fact of eating scoop of ice cream should be judged and called an issue.

DP - If you want to eat ice cream knowing its unhealthy, then just do it and own it. Why do you care what other people think? You like the ice cream and want to eat it and apparently don't care about the consequences, but you're worried someone else is giving you the time of day to care more than you do about your own health? It's not happening nearly as much as you think it is.

Eating ice cream is not unhealthy. Eating ice cream should not be some kind of a guilt full activity that you will end up in hell for.
You are exactly the type of morally superior nasty person that is the topic of this thread. Nobody should ever give anyone a hard time or a time of day for their eating choices. But, you are. Because you are not the morally superior person that you think you are. If you were a morally decent person, you would never have posted such a nasty and judgy post.
Ugly.

Eating ice cream isn’t unhealthy, but if you are obese and eating a triple scoop waffle cone, then yes I will judge you. But you know that. Don’t worry, I will also judge a thin person doing them same, because eating that much is pretty gross no matter your size

Judge not, lest ye be judged (c)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fat people are universally the butt of joke. Only in North Korea a fat person invokes fear in people.

Thank you for proving my point.
What a judgy and dehumanizing video about an overweight girl!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What ridiculous thing, " you don't know how skinny brains work!"
I am thin, I am 50 and have always been thin. I am right now making a huge pastry called burek to eat for breakfast! I crave sweets and love them. Speak for yourself pp!

What’s your point? You are not thin because you make eat some sort of sweet burek (?!) for breakfast. And you're definitely not thin because you think certain foods are punishment

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Newsflash, because you did not put ice cream in your mouth today doesn't make you morally superior to a person that did have ice cream today.
If you think it does, you are the person I am talking about. Prig that thinks eating a certain way and looking a certain way makes you better than those that are a bit heavier.

So then what does it make you if you chose to continue to do things bad for your body when you are already at an unhealthy weight? I wouldn’t say it is a moral issue. But it is an issue..

Do we really need to put a label on it? Why simple fact of eating scoop of ice cream should be judged and called an issue.

DP - If you want to eat ice cream knowing its unhealthy, then just do it and own it. Why do you care what other people think? You like the ice cream and want to eat it and apparently don't care about the consequences, but you're worried someone else is giving you the time of day to care more than you do about your own health? It's not happening nearly as much as you think it is.

I don't really care one way or another what people think about what I do, as in I would do it regardless of their opinion.

I'm just curious why they think it's OK to judge, and why they feel the need for the lable on other people actions.

Um, I'm not judging. I don't really care what you eat. I may just assume you know better but just don't care, so why should I? But you know you judge people for other reasons. People judge. If my kids were running around screaming at the ice cream parlor you'd be judging me. There's no guarantee of a judgment free society. Make your decisions and move along.

DP. Yes, you are. You are the exact person that this thread is about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Newsflash, because you did not put ice cream in your mouth today doesn't make you morally superior to a person that did have ice cream today.
If you think it does, you are the person I am talking about. Prig that thinks eating a certain way and looking a certain way makes you better than those that are a bit heavier.

So then what does it make you if you chose to continue to do things bad for your body when you are already at an unhealthy weight? I wouldn’t say it is a moral issue. But it is an issue..

Do we really need to put a label on it? Why simple fact of eating scoop of ice cream should be judged and called an issue.

DP - If you want to eat ice cream knowing its unhealthy, then just do it and own it. Why do you care what other people think? You like the ice cream and want to eat it and apparently don't care about the consequences, but you're worried someone else is giving you the time of day to care more than you do about your own health? It's not happening nearly as much as you think it is.

Eating ice cream is not unhealthy. Eating ice cream should not be some kind of a guilt full activity that you will end up in hell for.
You are exactly the type of morally superior nasty person that is the topic of this thread. Nobody should ever give anyone a hard time or a time of day for their eating choices. But, you are. Because you are not the morally superior person that you think you are. If you were a morally decent person, you would never have posted such a nasty and judgy post.
Ugly.

Eating ice cream isn’t unhealthy, but if you are obese and eating a triple scoop waffle cone, then yes I will judge you. But you know that. Don’t worry, I will also judge a thin person doing them same, because eating that much is pretty gross no matter your size

Judge not, lest ye be judged (c)

Everyone judges. You can either care or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My experience in life is that thin women very rarely think they are more moral or virtuous than other people. I'm a thin person and while I exercise and try to eat a nutritious diet, I know that my thinness is largely the result of luck and genetics. I've never assumed I was better than anyone because of my weight. I have fat people in my immediate family and I've seen firsthand how terribly they can be treated and how little people understand about fatness and weight loss. I've also seen how self-punishing they can be because of their weight and I never, ever want to add to anyone's negative self image.

But after years of being around women a lot, and thus hearing lots of women talk about bodies and weight loss, my observation is that the women who are most invested in the "thin=moral superiority" myth are people who are not naturally thin but who are close enough to thinness the they can achieve it through dieting, exercise (sometimes excessive amounts of both, sometimes not). I think this group drives the entire attitude because they are the one group who can say thinness is something you can achieve through hard work. Naturally thin people don't think this (we are thin regardless). And people who are actually fat usually understand that there are limits to how thin they will ever be, even with extreme interventions.

But women who are naturally a size 6 or 8, but can diet and exercise down to a 0 or 2, tend to be the most complimentary of my body, like it's an achievement (it's not). They also tend to be the most irritated when they discover that I don't have to diet to maintain a size 0. And they also tend to have the harshest things to say about people who are heavier than they are. Or they tend to say nasty or critical things about other women's bodies, commenting on someone's postpartum belly or the cellulite on someone's legs, stuff that it would never occur to me to point out because it seems cruel and tacky.

If anything comes from the body acceptance movement, I hope it's for women in this category (healthy weights but not necessarily thin) to just accept that they don't actually "need" to lose 20 pounds. And to stop tormenting the rest of us over that 20 pounds. Not everyone needs to be really thin. There are lots of different kinds of healthy bodies. And if your body isn't healthy, that's really your business and its unlikely that it's a simple fix that you are too lazy to implement -- most people want to be healthy.

Yes to all this. Also thin thanks to genetics, not moral superiority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My experience in life is that thin women very rarely think they are more moral or virtuous than other people. I'm a thin person and while I exercise and try to eat a nutritious diet, I know that my thinness is largely the result of luck and genetics. I've never assumed I was better than anyone because of my weight. I have fat people in my immediate family and I've seen firsthand how terribly they can be treated and how little people understand about fatness and weight loss. I've also seen how self-punishing they can be because of their weight and I never, ever want to add to anyone's negative self image.

But after years of being around women a lot, and thus hearing lots of women talk about bodies and weight loss, my observation is that the women who are most invested in the "thin=moral superiority" myth are people who are not naturally thin but who are close enough to thinness the they can achieve it through dieting, exercise (sometimes excessive amounts of both, sometimes not). I think this group drives the entire attitude because they are the one group who can say thinness is something you can achieve through hard work. Naturally thin people don't think this (we are thin regardless). And people who are actually fat usually understand that there are limits to how thin they will ever be, even with extreme interventions.

But women who are naturally a size 6 or 8, but can diet and exercise down to a 0 or 2, tend to be the most complimentary of my body, like it's an achievement (it's not). They also tend to be the most irritated when they discover that I don't have to diet to maintain a size 0. And they also tend to have the harshest things to say about people who are heavier than they are. Or they tend to say nasty or critical things about other women's bodies, commenting on someone's postpartum belly or the cellulite on someone's legs, stuff that it would never occur to me to point out because it seems cruel and tacky.

If anything comes from the body acceptance movement, I hope it's for women in this category (healthy weights but not necessarily thin) to just accept that they don't actually "need" to lose 20 pounds. And to stop tormenting the rest of us over that 20 pounds. Not everyone needs to be really thin. There are lots of different kinds of healthy bodies. And if your body isn't healthy, that's really your business and its unlikely that it's a simple fix that you are too lazy to implement -- most people want to be healthy.

I read your first paragraph and stopped at you calling your family fat.
You are pretty bad too. Didn't read the rest of your post since you clearly are judgy and regardless of your statements you used thin for yourself and fat for them. Forget societal politeness, right?

Fat is only a pejorative term if you think there is something wrong with being fat. I don't. It's descriptive, and it's how my relatives would describe themselves. It's also the term that the body acceptance movement embraces. "Overweight" implies that there is a weight someone is supposed to be. I could also say "big" but, people who are very caught up in weight and morality will take issue with that too. There is nothing wrong with being fat. And some people are fat, and they would be the first to tell you that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Newsflash, because you did not put ice cream in your mouth today doesn't make you morally superior to a person that did have ice cream today.
If you think it does, you are the person I am talking about. Prig that thinks eating a certain way and looking a certain way makes you better than those that are a bit heavier.

So then what does it make you if you chose to continue to do things bad for your body when you are already at an unhealthy weight? I wouldn’t say it is a moral issue. But it is an issue..

Do we really need to put a label on it? Why simple fact of eating scoop of ice cream should be judged and called an issue.

DP - If you want to eat ice cream knowing its unhealthy, then just do it and own it. Why do you care what other people think? You like the ice cream and want to eat it and apparently don't care about the consequences, but you're worried someone else is giving you the time of day to care more than you do about your own health? It's not happening nearly as much as you think it is.

I don't really care one way or another what people think about what I do, as in I would do it regardless of their opinion.

I'm just curious why they think it's OK to judge, and why they feel the need for the lable on other people actions.

Um, I'm not judging. I don't really care what you eat. I may just assume you know better but just don't care, so why should I? But you know you judge people for other reasons. People judge. If my kids were running around screaming at the ice cream parlor you'd be judging me. There's no guarantee of a judgment free society. Make your decisions and move along.

I don't judge people. Question "what doest it make you?" is judgment of person/character.
I'll probably judge your action of not restraining your kids, maybe, but I won't go as far as judging you as a parent. Huge difference in my books.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Newsflash, because you did not put ice cream in your mouth today doesn't make you morally superior to a person that did have ice cream today.
If you think it does, you are the person I am talking about. Prig that thinks eating a certain way and looking a certain way makes you better than those that are a bit heavier.

So then what does it make you if you chose to continue to do things bad for your body when you are already at an unhealthy weight? I wouldn’t say it is a moral issue. But it is an issue..

Do we really need to put a label on it? Why simple fact of eating scoop of ice cream should be judged and called an issue.

DP - If you want to eat ice cream knowing its unhealthy, then just do it and own it. Why do you care what other people think? You like the ice cream and want to eat it and apparently don't care about the consequences, but you're worried someone else is giving you the time of day to care more than you do about your own health? It's not happening nearly as much as you think it is.

I don't really care one way or another what people think about what I do, as in I would do it regardless of their opinion.

I'm just curious why they think it's OK to judge, and why they feel the need for the lable on other people actions.

Um, I'm not judging. I don't really care what you eat. I may just assume you know better but just don't care, so why should I? But you know you judge people for other reasons. People judge. If my kids were running around screaming at the ice cream parlor you'd be judging me. There's no guarantee of a judgment free society. Make your decisions and move along.

DP. Yes, you are. You are the exact person that this thread is about.

Not really. I would wonder why any adult needs ice cream because in my mind it's kid food. I may take my kids for an ice cream because they like it, but I never get any. I just don't care for it. I may think its odd an adult of any size is eating it but I really don't care. They have different preferences. I'm more worried about keeping my kids in line lest I be judged.