And yeah, I'm the bitch here... All I'm saying that it is not ok to bully skinny people for no reason. There are a lot of women who are hurt by these comments. I'm not one of them, but my sister was. I don't bully people. You are the one calling me pig headed and a hypocrite.
But it's okay to bully another forum member for having an opinion formed on her own observations? Yeah, seems legit.
I think many of you are seriously misusing the term 'bully/bullying'. This is not bullying. I don't even consider what was described in the OP to necessarily be bullying. By calling every disagreement or ad hominem 'bullying', it makes real bullying seem like less of an issue than it really is. 'Picking on' might be a better term for all of you. I consider what happened to me in school to be bullying, for many reasons, as it seriously impacted my life and self-esteem. It's absurd to call anyone in this thread a bully.
I agree with you, I just want him to explain how I bullied(his term)/ (picked on) (your term) anyone in this forum
Irminsul. You flat out told her she was wrong and then proceeded to bully her based off your own opinion. I believe you completely misread what she said, too and you told her to read the thread properly but then you ignored her response which corrected you. That's why I called you hypocritical, that's why I called you pig headed. You don't seem interested in learning why or how someone can form such a degrading opinion and instead bully them because of it. Just because someone isn't attracted to the ultra thin look doesn't mean they "are so wrong". We're attracted to whatever we are attracted to. Your constant defense is bitchy.
Yeah maybe a disgreement isn't bullying in the traditional sense but fuck, kids look at someone the wrong way at school these days and it's classed as bullying. Picking on someone has always been classed as bullying and now there's 3 of you attacking her because you don't agree. What a pack of gutless pricks.
Are you kidding me??? So I ask why it is acceptable to bash on skinny women for no reason, and she says that typically bigger women have more personality and are more fun to hang out with (thus stereotyping and implying that personality comes with weight, and making herself a rude comment) and I'm bullying HER??? I didn't say that it was wrong not to be attracted by skinny women, I'm just saying that you don't need to point it out as I don't point out things that I don't like about someone else for no reason other than to be mean! Jeez
Again, this is a thread about the fact that it is wrong to 'bully', than Irminsul makes a rude comment, and I'm the bully here. Note that I still haven't insulted anyone and you are calling us gutless pricks. You're actually quite funny ) I'm giving you a thumbs up for making me laugh ))
Yeeeah that's not bullying. Pay better attention to the bullying epidemic that America in particular currently has. Nobody is crying here. Nobody's social life is suffering as a result of what is being posted here. I highly doubt anyone is privately messaging anyone else to harass them directly, either. No. This is not bullying. And now it's just petty whining. And nowhere did I attack anyone. Not once. You are either extremely sensitive or you are not using reading comprehension. I asked her to clarify. I haven't insulted anyone here. At all. Please do not cry wolf like that with such ridiculous accusations.
When I've been told "you're too skinny"...I've always taken it as a compliment. When I've commented to co-workers about them being thin, lean, etc (I usually don't use the word skinny since people tend to get offended by it...something incomprehensible to me)...they NEVER got upset by it; but then I was never insulting them when I said it. When bigger girls go to hatin' on smaller girls, I've just always had enough common sense to know they were jealous. ALL that being said...95% of the time, it is the bigger girls that had boyfriends when those of us that weren't tipping the scale overweight were subject to have definite "dry spells". just sayin'
i only read the 1st and last page. just wanted to say that this phenomenon isn't specific to women. happens to me all the time. lots of people feel the need to tell me to eat more, or to put on some weight. it's kind of insulting to imply that i'm anorexic or something just because i'm naturally skinny. i AM pretty skinny though. 6'3" and just over 150 lbs