Does their weight affect the way you view them? Do you automatically make assumptions about someone's personality from their physique?
2006-11-29 00:07:16 · 19 answers · asked by Uncommon Sense 2 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
I think that people DO treat overweight people differently than fit people. As an addendum, people also treat physically attractive people better, than those not so aesthetically pleasing to the eyes.
I might be guilty to this folly myself. I try not to be, since I've cycled from being obese to physically fit (and back to obese and now physically fit) over the past 20 years. I can attest first-hand that I was treated differently when obese versus being physically fit.
As to gauging one's personality from their physique, I don't fall victim to this faux pas, since I see people making assumptions about me from my physique. At this point in my life, I am a big muscular guy (lots of time in the gym). Just recently, an employee at a sandwich shop that I am a regular patron of asked me what I did for a living. I told him that I am a software engineer and he was taken aback. He told me he assumed I was a construction worker, given my build and the clothin I wear (I'm always wearing beat-up jeans and a T-shirt). He was also surprized to learn that I am a zealous reader on topics such as theoretical physics, psychology, and biology.
Basically, people employ heuristics where they categorize other people within certain labelled groups, in order to make sense of their world. It's an unfortunate practice, but may have an evolutionary reason (think prehistoric man avoiding a big burly adversary, in order to protect himself and his family).
2006-11-29 01:32:59 · answer #1 · answered by EruditeGuy 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I dont. The only thing that comes to mind is those who gripe about their weight while they hold a cupcake. But think poorley? Not at all. Everyone has some issue. Maybe for some its overeating,but there are worse things(things that cant be fixed). What I do tend to judge,however,is when overweight ppl are making their kids overweight. Thats not fair. That the children grow with healthy habits(kids are cruel) as their parents should know. When the kid grows uo let them decide if they want to be fit or fat.
2006-11-29 00:11:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I treat everyone the same. Just because someone looks different on the outside doesn't mean they are any different in the inside. You can't judge a book by it's cover.
And for the people that say they have less respect for overweight people that is bullshit.
I'm overweight but not obese and I respect myself and all other people. It's people like you that I don't respect.
2006-11-29 00:15:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, honestly I do not. I adore so many overweight people! And never once have I judged them, not even in the beginning.
I guess the one thing I get annoyed about sometimes is uncontrollable heavy breathing, but I'm not annoyed AT them just annoyed- and I don't know if that has any correlation with being overweight (that's just my experience).
2006-11-29 00:11:56 · answer #4 · answered by solaralley 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of course a persons weight affects how you think of them. Anyone who says it doesn't is lying. It's not a concious thing, but you have less respect for them vs a fit person because fit people pay attention to their health, and that's hard. I'm skinny as hell, but I'm not fit.
2006-11-29 00:11:36 · answer #5 · answered by Manuscript Replica 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I treat over-weight people differently. I find it to be unhealthy and unattractive. However, I have great respect when I see overweight people in the gym trying to do something about it!
2006-11-29 00:21:57 · answer #6 · answered by ropemancometh 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes and everyone does it,not necessarily in a negative way but all have the ability to judge,(cant escape it,built in us). Making assumptions depends on ones background and experiences.Again not necessarily negative.
2006-11-29 00:21:16 · answer #7 · answered by hunter 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no longer inevitably, no be counted if that's barely many times as an occasion in case you have been in a shop, you does no longer say excuse me to a skinny individual, you may say it to a fat individual. Make experience?
2016-10-13 08:22:16 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't, but I know people that do...and I have been the victim of rude, crude, and socially unacceptable behavior because I am over weight. It sucks.
2006-11-29 00:15:56 · answer #9 · answered by Barbiq 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
nope, im 140 and 5 ft 8 and i can be a bi*** people that are over weight can be the same look inside the person
2006-11-29 00:12:33 · answer #10 · answered by arizonaprincess2 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋