Obese women in Bikinis - should we be advocating this as normal?

It's probably normal for people to be over rather than underweight nowadays. The easy availability of food and our increasingly sedentary lifestyles moves us in that direction. However that view is opposed by social norms where the abnormal painfully thin female is seen as normal.

It's seriously ****ed up.
 
Jebs said:
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What about her? Is she "fat" to you?
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She 'has' fat, yes. But she's personally quite pretty in my eyes, it's not excessive fat (ie huge rolls) and she looks nice.

I would find someone like her more attractive than a stick
 
LordSplodge said:
It's probably normal for people to be over rather than underweight nowadays. The easy availability of food and our increasingly sedentary lifestyles moves us in that direction. However that view is opposed by social norms where the abnormal painfully thin female is seen as normal.

It's seriously ****ed up.
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You seriously don't believe that, do you?

Who do you genuinely think is going to cop the most hassle due to their weight over the course of their lifetime, someone who is overweight or someone is underweight?

And I'm sure the number of young girls out there that are willing to do ridiculous lengths to gain weight are outnumbered about ten thousand to one compared to the ones who are willing to go to ridiculous lengths to loose weight.

Hell, surely the fact that there was an article ran in a national news paper effectively having a moan that overweight woman want to be allowed to feel comfortable wearing binkis must give you an inkling to just now 'normal' it is seen to be overweight in society?

Overweight people still cop a lot of hate as a whole, but the treatment of overweight women is downright disgraceful, as some of the comments in this thread prove.
 
Joshy said:
You seriously don't believe that, do you?

Who do you genuinely think is going to cop the most hassle due to their weight over the course of their lifetime, someone who is overweight or someone is underweight?

And I'm sure the number of young girls out there that are willing to do ridiculous lengths to gain weight are outnumbered about ten thousand to one compared to the ones who are willing to go to ridiculous lengths to loose weight.

Hell, surely the fact that there was an article ran in a national news paper effectively having a moan that overweight woman want to be allowed to feel comfortable wearing binkis must give you an inkling to just now 'normal' it is seen to be overweight in society?

Overweight people still cop a lot of hate as a whole, but the treatment of overweight women is downright disgraceful, as some of the comments in this thread prove.
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Now read his post again as you've replied to a point he never made.

He said the normality for society is to be larger - but social norms do not relect that. His sentiment is actually the same as yours.
 
[TW]Fox;22012788 said:
Now read his post again as you've replied to a point he never made.

He said the normality for society is to be larger - but social norms do not relect that. His sentiment is actually the same as yours.
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Perhaps I need to finish reading posts before engaging rage mode :o :( :D.
 
Looking at the pictures in that daily mail article, it appears these women are under the impression that if they hide their nasal people won't fully recognise how fat they are.

They're wrong.

Curvy and unhealthily overweight are different things.
 
Joshy said:
Overweight people still cop a lot of hate as a whole, but the treatment of overweight women is downright disgraceful, as some of the comments in this thread prove.
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Yes they do and I get tired of seeing such attitudes. It isn't easy being overweight male or female but women get really unfairly treated, often by men who are themselves less than perfect. See an earlier post in this very thread where I said just that.

[TW]Fox;22012788 said:
He said the normality for society is to be larger - but social norms do not relect that. His sentiment is actually the same as yours.
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Joshy said:
Perhaps I need to finish reading posts before engaging rage mode :o :( :D.
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Fox hits the nail on the head. I even used italics to help differentiate between normality and social norms. :D
 
arctine said:
Looking at the pictures in that daily mail article, it appears these women are under the impression that if they hide their nasal people won't fully recognise how fat they are.
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do they have particularly fat noses? :confused:

but the naval covering is because otherwise the fat would flop over and completely cover the biki bottoms.
 
LordSplodge said:
Yes they do and I get tired of seeing such attitudes. It isn't easy being overweight male or female but women get really unfairly treated, often by men who are themselves less than perfect. See an earlier post in this very thread where I said just that
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it's the nuts /zoo and air brush generation. Anything less than airbrushed to perfection isn't good enough. What makes me laugh is regularly on here that generation say they prefer natural women or natural breasts then when there is an allowed babes or boobs thread they are nearly all silicone breasts. :D
 
But there's no doubt they know they overweight and that it's not healthy.

The point is fat people should be allowed to do things like go swimming too without being judged and being told to cover up.

Would people say the same to a slim woman who's whole body is covered in stretchmarks? Or people with excessive skin who are skinny because of major weight loss, just not nice to look at. Hell even most women who has had a child would not be "allowed" to wear a bikini if we are going by that.

A lot of people in this thread has completely missed the point.
 
Twentyone said:
But there's no doubt they know they overweight and that it's not healthy.

The point is fat people should be allowed to do things like go swimming too without being judged and being told to cover up.

Would people say the same to a slim woman who's whole body is covered in stretchmarks? Or people with excessive skin who are skinny because of major weight loss, just not nice to look at. Hell even most women who has had a child would not be "allowed" to wear a bikini if we are going by that.

A lot of people in this thread has completely missed the point.
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I understand what you mean. Would you like to see a picture of me in a bikini? No me neither...
 
dannyjo22 said:
it's the nuts /zoo and air brush generation. Anything less than airbrushed to perfection isn't good enough. What makes me laugh is regularly on here that generation say they prefer natural women or natural breasts then when there is an allowed babes or boobs thread they are nearly all silicone breasts. :D
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Exactly. We have a generation of males growing up thinking that is the norm and then expecting their girlfriends to meet the impossible image. We then have a generation of women damaging themselves to obtain a figure that is neither normal or healthy (and mostly not even attractive)

Twentyone said:
The point is fat people should be allowed to do things like go swimming too without being judged and being told to cover up.

Would people say the same to a slim woman who's whole body is covered in stretchmarks? Or people with excessive skin who are skinny because of major weight loss, just not nice to look at. Hell even most women who has had a child would not be "allowed" to wear a bikini if we are going by that.

A lot of people in this thread has completely missed the point.
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Imperfections are brushed to one side in the fat or not-fat argument for some reason. Forget that in reality women are shades of grey. Women and men are not perfect & this should be accepted.

As for the story in the OP well nobody has the right to tell somebody else what they can or cannot wear (outside of the places where dress code is prescribed such as work and so on) as it isn't any of your business. Don't like that larger woman in a bikini? Well tough.

What really annoys me and nobody has really addressed this point is how such standards don't apply to men. Seems it is perfectly OK for a fat man to parade around in shorts.
 
philtor said:
I understand what you mean. Would you like to see a picture of me in a bikini? No me neither...
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Irrelevant. You have as much right to wear one as they do. Now a man in a bikini is a little less socially acceptable but it is still your right. It is not our right to say you cannot wear one.

The Halk said:
But it's not our place to force you not to be seen in one.
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Exactly although by a lot of posters responses you'd think people do have a right to do so.
 
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