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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The average size 12, 14, and 16 woman is overweight bordering obese. It is unhealthy. Sorry snowflake, science doesn’t agree with you.[/quote]

Why are some people so dense? Does anybody think this is an intelligent statement?

The average 0-6 is also not healthy.

That is why size 8 is perfect.

Also women are getting bigger. It biology. Small women marry bigger and taller men. Their daughters will be bigger.[/quote]

It totally depends on body type.  For me, size 6 is fat.  I have no boobs and bird bones with a tiny rib cage.  When I get to size 6, I have rolls of fat around my abdomen.  My sister, who inherited a different set of genes, is totally healthy and curvy at size 12.  When she gets up to a 16, that's too fat for her and unhealthy for her.  I know other women who are really big boned for whom a size 16 might not be fat, though.  The sizes, and even weights, are really meaningless because people are all built differently.  I think when your weight interferes with your life (e.g.,can't walk upstairs, can't fly commercial, type 2 diabetes, etc.) that's sad and I feel bad for those individuals.  Otherwise, who cares?
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NP. I like your POV and attitude. I think I'm similar.

For me at 5'3" size 12 is fat. Size 6-8 is my wheelhouse. Smaller than that and people I know literally ask me if I am ill (it happened when I joined Weight Watchers and lost some weight). I have sympathy with people who are overweight or obese because I know, at least for me, I have a band that I can't go above or below, even with Herculean measures. I starved myself when I was a teenager and the weight loss, needless to say, was brief and impossible to maintain (society would've given me a thumbs up but I was very unhealthy). But I gained a bunch during two pregnancies but topped out at exactly the same weight, and then snapped back to my normal "non-pregnancy high" weight. Now, as I get older, the band is shifting -- I am noticing the weight creeping up unless I do something extra to maintain my ideal weight (my ideal, btw, not society's) -- again, probably due to my unique genetics. Whenever I see someone who is obese, I just figure that that is where their genes want them to be.

I don't see how body positivity could possibly be a bad thing. Same thing for all the models I see now with vitiligo, freckles, cellulite, wrinkles and gray hair, or models who are amputees, or trans models. It's just accepting differences and questioning the beauty ideals.[/quote]

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