Is it an insult to say a fat man is fat?

Linkat wrote:

patiodog wrote:
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Literature demeans someone as evil or grotesque, not by describing them as thin, but nearly always an evil fat slobs with fat lips, fat fingers, greasy fat oozing evil and degradation.

I'm neither grotesque or a fat slob!

I'm I kind of beautiful evil.

Satan comes as an angel of light....

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As long as he doesn't come on the good sofa, that's fine with me.

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I'm not a fat pig, I'm NOT a fat pig.

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time to bring some true intellectual insight to this thread

from Homer:

"I'm not fat, it's glandular"

http://www.slashfood.com/images/2005/09/homer.jpg

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So who is going to be the first volunteer to put on a 300 pound fat suit to walk in a fat person's shoes and tell us all how beneficial it is to have so many "helpful" people telling you in numerous creative ways how fat you are and that you disgust them?

Don't be bashful, just raise your hand. You'll be able to take the fat suit off after a month if the zipper doesn't jam.

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hey, i could stand to lose easily 20 pounds if not more

say what you want i could care less

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djjd62 wrote:

hey, i could stand to lose easily 20 pounds if not more

Then why are you still sitting down?

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Well, I think that's rather obvious, sturgis. He can't get off his fat patootie. :wink:

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hey

whats wrong with us fluffy people?

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**sigh** The debate on the word "fat" will rage on.

The debate on smokers has been closed; people hate smokers and can publicly ridicule them and that's ok.

My problem is that we can't even discriminate fairly.

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Butrflynet wrote:

So who is going to be the first volunteer to put on a 300 pound fat suit to walk in a fat person's shoes and tell us all how beneficial it is to have so many "helpful" people telling you in numerous creative ways how fat you are and that you disgust them?

Don't be bashful, just raise your hand. You'll be able to take the fat suit off after a month if the zipper doesn't jam.

which assures that that isn't a good method of "walking in someones shoes". If you can't take the comments all you have to do is slip out of the suit.

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Bi-Polar Bear wrote:

Butrflynet wrote:
So who is going to be the first volunteer to put on a 300 pound fat suit to walk in a fat person's shoes and tell us all how beneficial it is to have so many "helpful" people telling you in numerous creative ways how fat you are and that you disgust them?

Don't be bashful, just raise your hand. You'll be able to take the fat suit off after a month if the zipper doesn't jam.

which assures that that isn't a good method of "walking in someones shoes". If you can't take the comments all you have to do is slip out of the suit.

Unless that zipper jammed and no matter what you do, you can't get that suit off now.

It's quite a good method. If you're able to, and don't like the comments, remove the fat suit. Now you know what it feels like being in that suit and how better to encourage someone rather than criticize them.

Hopefully, the zipper will jam and you'll be forced to find out what it feels like to keep struggling to remove it, but not be able to without drastic efforts with a knife.

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butrfly, I agree that someone walking around in a fat suit would give that person an idea of what it's like to be overweight. However, even if the suit couldn't be removed, this person would still know that he or she isn't fat. So the outward unpleasantness would be there, and the understanding would be there. But the bottom line is that the person in the suit can still tell himself (or herself), "I'm not really fat." A different perspective and lacking the psychological pain.

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2PacksAday wrote:

Butterbean!!!!

Butterbean looks like he needs a bra!!!

http://www.jklawyer.net/blog/butterbean%2520punch.jpg

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It's called a Bro!

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Bella Dea wrote:

My problem is that we can't even discriminate fairly.

Umm yeah, thats kind of the point. :wink:

(If it'd be fair, it wouldnt be discrimination..)

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nimh wrote:

Bella Dea wrote:
My problem is that we can't even discriminate fairly.

Umm yeah, thats kind of the point. :wink:

(If it'd be fair, it wouldnt be discrimination..)

That was sort of my point too....an oxymoron if you will.

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I think it's an insult if you did it with negative intention. I also think it is not good if you don't think about what you are saying before you say it. For example, saying..

"You're fat, so you shouldn't buy that shirt."

Is alot worse than saying..

"You're a little overweight, maybe we can workout together for a while, then come back and buy that shirt."

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http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/5/57/180px-Deuel.jpg

Who you callin' fat? It's genetics! I'll chew you up and spit you out! Well, maybe I'll spit you out, maybe not...

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Cobbler wrote:

"You're fat, so you shouldn't buy that shirt."

Is alot worse than saying..

"You're a little overweight, maybe we can workout together for a while, then come back and buy that shirt."

Umm.. am I the only one who'd find that patronising **** of the second sentence actually a lot worse? I mean, the sheer condescension! Like they think you're some kind of fool! Yuck yuck yuck.

I'm too thin rather than too fat, no less an issue, but Id sure f*ckin prefer "You're too thin, you shouldnt buy that shirt" from a friend over "You have a very slight build right now, but maybe we can work out together for a while and then come back to buy that shirt"! Jesus, I'm not an idiot, who do you think you are, my mom? And I'll definitely not let you use this shopping trip to pressure me into working out the way you think I should. Sheesh.

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