Why do fat women laugh more than others?

Question

I've noticed that fat women always laugh at everything. Is it because they're happy or because they use it as a defense mechanism? If they're happier than others, then I should attempt to get fat....Is that not an adequate assumption?

Answer 1

Being someone who has gained alot of weight in the past few years... I have found that other people assume I must be conscious and worried about my weight all the time. Yes, sometimes it does bother me, but not nearly as much as my thinner family members are bothered by their own weight. This is interesting and probably not what you'd expect. However, I grew up in a household of slightly overweight people. From that, I've noticed that all of my family members, no matter how thin they are have body image issues - not to the point where they are anorexic or bulemic, but to the point that any time we have a special day and bring out some kind of dessert someone feels the need to mention that we shouldn't be eating the dessert because of how many unneccessary calories we will ingest and blah blah blah... by the time the dessert is ready to be served no one wants to eat any more than "a sliver" because everyone is so ashamed of the fact that they're stooping so low as to eat something bad for them in the first place. At this point, no matter how good the dessert actually tastes, it is hard to enjoy it.

From my perspective, at having been thin and fairly pretty, and then gaining a lot of weight and not being nearly as pretty, I have learned about myself and I think been given a greater perspective on life and have since learned that making sure you are the thinnest and strongest and healthiest you can be (while I do agree that these are good qualities) is not all that there is to life. I have been able to concentrate on how I am otherwise and who I am and realized (that yes, I do want to lose the weight and get back to having a nice body) but I also realized that when I had it, I didn't realize I had it. Even though I had a perfectly nice body, I still thought I was fat. I was still worried about how much weight I should lose and that I was never good enough.

Upon getting fat, it's become so much more clear how much more there is to life than being the thinnest person at the party or the person in the size 2 jeans. Sometimes I want to smack my thinner friends and family members upside the head when they start to worry about what size they are, because they are all a fine size right now and they never let themselves enjoy it because they are still concentrating on how much thinner they should be. It's craziness!

In a family where this isn't the case, you might think that my family and friends are weird in this, but I have met so many people that are like this that it is easy to see how much of an unconscious effect movie stars and models really do have on the way women view themselves.

So to finally answer the question, I think sometimes fat people are able to see the world from a different perspective and are perhaps more able to loosen up and enjoy situations that people who have never been fat will not be able to see from the same situations. (For the people who think it is usually a defense mechanism - think about how silly it really is when a bunch of your friends get together and discuss diets, weight, calories, etc when none of them really needs to lose a pound. There are much better things to talk about... Get yourselves some self-confidence and stop trying to be the thinnest person in the room.)

Answer 2

I don't know the answer to that but I can tell you a little about my own experience. When I was a young woman and thin and if I can say without sounding too braggy, attractive my sense of humor was dry. I didn't laugh easily. I might smile if it was really good. My attitude was kind of "cool." Or at least that's how I thought about it. I was very witty and made people laugh very often with my quips. I had a dry & "sophisticated" sense of humor.

Forward 30 year. I'm overrweight. I'm older. I'm more invisable in the world. I am "easily amused". Why is that? Well, I think there are a lot of reasons for that. I kind of need to be easily amused. It's one of the fun parts of my life. I no longer look cool or act sophisticated so I'm not trying to hold up any "image". Ibasically want to enjoy as much of life as I can. I'm no longer trying to look cute, or cool so I can "afford" to laugh easily.

Answer 3

ok i'm a lady and that i might want to snicker. This jogs my memory of at the same time as i change into in nursing college the position we were shown a video of basic approaches to provide a guy a urine catheter. We had 2 boys in our classification and something else human beings were gazing it heavily, at the same time as the adult males were truly crinching and crossing their legs and stuff. My wager is, those parts of a mans body are better smooth to discomfort than any body area we women individuals have.(even inspite of the actuality that a kick in the crotch will harm undesirable for us also) i'm continuously surprised at how little the punch should be for a guy to be in actual discomfort (watch any funniest abode video episode for that). So i wager at the same time as adult males watch stuff like this, they recognize how undesirable the discomfort is and they could't discover it humorous.... at the same time as we women discover the guy a loser already for being this kind of horner and we can in straight forward words snicker at that scene because we are no longer besides recommended about the sensitivity of that area as maximum adult males are....

Answer 4

Were just frekin jolly all the darn time!! No the reason "FAT" woman are so jolly is because they/myself included like to beat people to the punch line about themselve. They are not really happy and jolly all the time but beating people to the punch line really takes away some of the sting about being over weight for myself.

Answer 5

I do not think it is because they are fat. I think it is because they are happy and secure with themselves even tho they are fat. They just have a good sense of humor. I am one of them and people love to be around me. I have many friends and most of them are a lot younger than I. I am in my 60's.

Answer 6

Maybe they laugh as a defense mechanism or because of low self esteem. If she is in a group of people and all except for her are average size or skinny, and they start talking about how much they eat or something to that effect, she may start laughing to avoid embarassing questions or remarks. She may also be trying to enjoy herself, afterall they say laughter is the best medicine.

Answer 7

I can only extrapolate this to the extreme, and suggest those with insufficient dietary fat intake have reduced hormone & serotonin production, resulting in fatter people being generally happier than thin ones.

Answer 8

There's a psychological theory by Sheldon which explains this..Try using the term "endomorph"

Answer 9

i don't know, but it can think of two people off the top of my head who are always joking around. but one of them isn't insecure and she's fun to be around and the other is insecure....so i dunno. it could be a number of reasons, but it doesn't matter what your size is. just be you. you are being a little ridiculous by asking if you should get fat, now c'mon.

Answer 10

I notice that too...it could be to get more attention. They can have low self-esteem because they are not attracted. they want some one to pay attention on them. when they laugh at someone joke that person is near them... now the lady might have attention to say something