Over the last 18 months i've lost 5 stone. After being overweight for about 5 years I am staggered how differently I am now treated on a daily basis. While I guess it's sad but unsurprising that more men have asked me out, it's the fact that more men are just more helpful and polite, people open doors more even, It's quite bizarre. I think I was actually invisible, when I was twice the size. I've been in social situations where people have made jokes about a persons size and i'm expected to join in. It sounds weird but I feel like i've joined a club and i'm not sure if I want to be a member! Conversely some women have been a lot less helpful, and a lot less friendly and I didn't expect that. Anyway I'm glad I lost the weight, i'm fitter and healthier which is the main thing. But there's no doubt that the world can be an unkind place for large people.
2007-02-08 06:11:17 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I went from size 22 to size 16 in the past year, and I'm seeing it myself.
2007-02-08 06:14:43 · answer #1 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've never been large, my size is one, but yes, i know what you feel, because all my family is big, and i am small beacuse i am sick. I know how they are sometimes treated different. However, we all can treat others bad therefore, don't worry about that. The main point is your personality anyway.
2007-02-08 14:31:01 · answer #2 · answered by snowdrop 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah i know i grew up in a family of heavy set people. i cant tell you how many times I've gotten into it with people making their stupid remarks about big people. i will not stand by and let someone get away with hurting the feelings of someone i love. people can be so cruel. I've taught my children not to make fun of people that are different and to be nice regardless if they are big or small or black or white.
2007-02-08 14:38:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This world is crazy,everybody is crying out for their respect.A pecking order should erected from the Blacks to minorities to Gays to Fat to Skinny.Hello,if everybody got the recognition they sort after,humans as we well know,would still not be content,the world would not be a kinder place.
2007-02-08 14:29:05 · answer #4 · answered by siaosi 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It happened to me when I got my breast augment surgery. Men would openly laugh at me, right in my face, and humiliate me beyond belief. Now that I have a shapely figure, men (the same exact ones) cannot stop doing things for me, asking me to lunch, etc. It makes me sick. They say I've changed and call me a b*tch now....but I haven't changed, THEY have, they just refuse to see it.
2007-02-08 14:24:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
if you where huge you were deffentley not invisable lol srry bad joke ....................... i have some big friends i dont treat them diffrent sometimes i play around and crack jokes but they do it to
2007-02-08 14:47:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋