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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can be fat even without emotional eating.

I know some thin women judge because of the dirty looks when I eat in public.  There are some women who seem completely nonplussed by my size (2X) and it's clearly the only thing they perceive.  This is waaay more common in DC.

It's also not uncommon for acquaintances to "forget" I'm fat and express anxiety and condemnation about their own weight.  It's obvious that being my size is their worst nightmare, and they're convinced they'll lose everything and be unworthy if that happens.  The fog is so thick that the evidence of a happily married, physically and socially active, sexually satisfied fat woman standing next to them just doesn't penetrate.[/quote]

I've had the same experience. One moment that has stuck with me was my 2 best friends in high school talking disgustedly about how they couldn't believe 14 was the average clothing size for US women because it is sooooooo huge and gross, etc. I said, "I wear a 14." Cue awkward silence followed by a lame, "well, you don't look it..."

It's amazing how often people will chatter obliviously to me about how disgusting some celebrity is for gaining weight, or how they're so disgusted with themselves because they still have 7 pounds of baby weight to lose and feeling their thighs touch is soooooo nasty! I just smile and nod because I honestly don't think they mean any offense. In their minds, they're not talking about me - the obese person standing in front of them - but rather about fatness in general.

Anyway, that's why I think thin women care, because many of them talk about it all the time. But I don't necessarily think they care that I, personally, am obese.
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