A friend showed me a picture of a South Indian actress after a few days of her wedding. The lass had put on some weight and was no more the stereotype fit for the silver screen. My friend showed it with gusto, adding a comment for good measure - "hey you're the one that likes this actress is'nt it?" And then we were discussing about some gym and I had heard that gym had a big clientele of women, and I was jokingly saying , "dude we should enroll man, has a lot of women" and to that he replied " No machi, it'll all be fat women, once they get out of gym" we'll initiate conversation. Another pig headed man actually commented on a photo of a close person to me when I showed it and was saying they had lost weight - "After weight loss this big?" - If I had half the guts I have today he would have had to get about 4 of his his teeth replaced!
As if discrimination based on religion, caste, colour, sex, and the million other differences aren't enough we have one more folks - weight! And this attitude of branding someone as "fat, round, butter ball" etc sways more towards women. I can bravely say that men don't care squat about their body weight, it's the women who fall victim to this judgmental attitude of the morons! If we were to hold it against overweight people we would have to ostracize most of the kids today. The scars that this kind of discrimination leaves on a woman are big. It affects confidence, it affects self worth, and yes it causes distress and high levels of guilt. It leads to eating disorders and mood swings.
Now for a moment lets switch sides - let us assume that among women there existed an attraction for men whose waist size does not exceed 30 and have to absolutely have a neatly arranged "six pack". Except for maybe a handful, all men would die single. And imagine the strain on knowing that you are rejected/looked over for something as trivial as your physique when you know that as a person you're so humorous, you're so generous, you're fun to be with, you are extremely intelligent and can play the guitar like Hendrix. Imagine all of that important stuff being shunned for only your waist size and gut muscles! That's what you're doing to over weight women.
You may say it's a personal choice of yours. If that's the case choose a skinny woman, and shut up after that. It's a bloody vicious cycle. You have a prejudiced view which you communicate to the world and you know what, you have people following that idea. We're like a bunch of sheep - always following the herd. So if its your personal choice, keep it at that, don't go around judging other people, because no ones judging the fact that you're a pompous, rich, insensitive fart!
And for the final farewell message - don't be smug about the fact its only others who are going through this. Look around you - you have friends, family, loved ones - all going through this. And with all the packaged food industries charming ads and gimmicks, most of the next generation is going to be fighting this fight including your children So you'd better grow up to be a little more sensitive and stop behaving like a moron!
As if discrimination based on religion, caste, colour, sex, and the million other differences aren't enough we have one more folks - weight! And this attitude of branding someone as "fat, round, butter ball" etc sways more towards women. I can bravely say that men don't care squat about their body weight, it's the women who fall victim to this judgmental attitude of the morons! If we were to hold it against overweight people we would have to ostracize most of the kids today. The scars that this kind of discrimination leaves on a woman are big. It affects confidence, it affects self worth, and yes it causes distress and high levels of guilt. It leads to eating disorders and mood swings.
Now for a moment lets switch sides - let us assume that among women there existed an attraction for men whose waist size does not exceed 30 and have to absolutely have a neatly arranged "six pack". Except for maybe a handful, all men would die single. And imagine the strain on knowing that you are rejected/looked over for something as trivial as your physique when you know that as a person you're so humorous, you're so generous, you're fun to be with, you are extremely intelligent and can play the guitar like Hendrix. Imagine all of that important stuff being shunned for only your waist size and gut muscles! That's what you're doing to over weight women.
You may say it's a personal choice of yours. If that's the case choose a skinny woman, and shut up after that. It's a bloody vicious cycle. You have a prejudiced view which you communicate to the world and you know what, you have people following that idea. We're like a bunch of sheep - always following the herd. So if its your personal choice, keep it at that, don't go around judging other people, because no ones judging the fact that you're a pompous, rich, insensitive fart!
And for the final farewell message - don't be smug about the fact its only others who are going through this. Look around you - you have friends, family, loved ones - all going through this. And with all the packaged food industries charming ads and gimmicks, most of the next generation is going to be fighting this fight including your children So you'd better grow up to be a little more sensitive and stop behaving like a moron!
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