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[clarity]

Why do make fun of people who are over weight?
Why are people pressured?

What I've noticed is that people who are overweight tend to be an outcast or do not have many friend, or just don't plain fit in. Also many other people make fun of people for being overweight. I've herd many people say that "fat" people are ugly, but that's not true. I know a lot of overweight people who are very beautiful. Anyways to make a point, why would someone make fun of someone for being overweight? It just means their a different shape and built differently.

To get to a point, once someone is pressured on something they want to fix it, whether its the size of your breast, the shape of your nose, or even the color of your hair! But when it comes to weight, it can get very dangerous. So here's my story...

When me and my best friend (ariana)were younger, this girl made fun of ariana because she was overweight. Later as ariana got older she started to become obsessed with how she looked, and thought she didn't look right. So she stopped eating. That ended her up in the hospital. After she finally came home two weeks later, she came to visit me at my house and she wasn't the same person as before. She seemed depressed, sad, and very anxious. Finally I got her to open up to me for why she had these feelings. She told me she was pressured to be thin because of that girl who made fun of her. She said that she didn't like the way she looked and how wanted to look perfect but we all know perfection wasn't isn't an option.

You may wonder, if someone is made fun of for being overweight why don't they lose weight
with something healthier then starving themselves? Well I learned from ariana, its hard to open up to people and they want to fix things themselves.

From what I've also herd the media influences many people to believe that you need to look thin/skinny to look good, or be attractive. But its not only the media, Some chain clothing stores like Abercrombie & Fitch (forgive me if i spelled that wrong) only make clothes sizes for smaller people. I know this one girl at my school who is super overweight and she can't fit it to any clothes at aeropostal, hollister, forever 21, and abercrombie & fitch but she likes the style and she doesn't think its quite fair.

which my conclusion comes to my questions to you.
• Do you ever feel pressured to be thin/thinner?
• Have you made fun of someone for being overweight?
• Why would you make fun of someone for being overweight?
• If you found out you making fun of someone, made someone do something like what my friend ariana did, would you like to go back in the past and erase what you have said?

hopefully for those who do make fun of people for being overweight, after this you've rethought about it.

[Jeng]

# Do you ever feel pressured to be thin/thinner?
no because im already thin by fast metabolism or something, not because of anything else. but i do get pressured to be fatter :\ but i wouldnt give in if i was pressured to be thinner
# Have you made fun of someone for being overweight?
only my sister. beucase shes my sister. teehee. no one else, i would never.
# Why would you make fun of someone for being overweight?
i wouldnt, but if i did, itll probably be as a joke, but i knew it would still hurt the persons feelings, i do it to my sister because shes all these words i cant say here :x
# If you found out you making fun of someone, made someone do something like what my friend ariana did, would you like to go back in the past and erase what you have said?
yea i definately would. make things better, dont change that person.

[*salcha4u*]

# Do you ever feel pressured to be thin/thinner?

HECK no I eat hella mangggg. Then I just run it all off. <3 food.

# Have you made fun of someone for being overweight?

I make fun of everyone.

# If you found out you making fun of someone, made someone do something like what my friend ariana did, would you like to go back in the past and erase what you have said?

Sure, and while we're at it, let's change some other things too. AHH stupid chem grade...soph year...

[tokyo-rose]

Do you ever feel pressured to be thin/thinner?
No, I don't. If I feel like I want to be thinner, it's because of my own accord and because I want to look more fit.
Have you made fun of someone for being overweight?
I might have thought to myself that someone needed to lose weight, but I've never made fun of someone.
Why would you make fun of someone for being overweight?
I never have, but I guess meanspirited people just need something to do. They make fun of people who don't look like them, but the mocker may just have insecurities. They don't know any better.
If you found out you were making fun of someone, made someone do something like what my friend Ariana did, would you like to go back in the past and erase what you have said?
Yes, I would. To have made someone do something so drastic, and made them physically and mentally damage themselves, is just terrible.

[OhMyAnniee]

Do you ever feel pressured to be thin/thinner?
No. People say I'm really skinny but I'm fine. I keep my weight balanced between 111 - 115.
Have you made fun of someone for being overweight?
I feel bad when I say the word fat. I might have before but I don't remember. I would never say "Your fat!" to someone's face. That's just plain evil.
Why would you make fun of someone for being overweight?
I wouldn't. I don't see the point of making fun of someone for that. The only reason why someone would do it was to make themselves feel better about their own bodies.
If you found out you were making fun of someone, made someone do something like what my friend Ariana did, would you like to go back in the past and erase what you have said?
Yes. I would apologize and do everything possible to make it right. The other day, I apologized to one of my friends for talking bad about her two years ago. I felt really bad about that. If I knew someone that did that, I would tell them to apologize!

[*a painefull euphoria*]

[*]Do you ever feel pressured to be thin/thinner?
nah i like my body type i find it more atractive than anything,so does my bf
there are some people who find me too big and my philosophy on that is if a size 5/6 is to big for you then thats sad.

[*]Have you made fun of someone for being overweight?
no beacuse ive been the fat kid before.

[*]Why would you make fun of someone for being overweight?
i havent.never would

[*]If you found out you making fun of someone, made someone do something like what my friend ariana did, would you like to go back in the past and erase what you have said?

i would.=/and really mean it

[*WHIMSICAL 0NE*]

Do you ever feel pressured to be thin/thinner?
A lot of times I do, but I think it has become and impulse for me. When I was younger my dad was somewhat abusive and he would always call me fat and take my plate away at dinner. In 7th grade I became really depressed (due to an unrelated issue) and dropped a lot of weight. One of the Classic Campbell's Chicken Noodle soups would last me two days. Now it wouldn't, lol. But I was about 5'3 and weight less than 90lbs. To this day I still compare myself to people like my father did (and still sometimes does). I beat myself up alot about what I eat, but I don't think I'll ever get to that point again.

Have you made fun of someone for being overweight?
I can't say that I have. The closest thing to criticizing someone about their weight would be me, in my own home, questioning how someone could let themselves get deadly obese. Like when they have people on TV that weight 800+ pounds. But never to their face. Just conversation with my family.

Why would you make fun of someone for being overweight?
I wouldn't have a reason. I'm not a hypocrite.

If you found out you making fun of someone, made someone do something like what my friend ariana did, would you like to go back in the past and erase what you have said?
Yes, but that wouldn't be a possibility. Things like being picked on is inevitable but I would make sure that one of my friend's would never take that kind of negativity to heart. And I would notice what they were doing and get them help ASAP.

[koreansaga510]

Do you ever feel pressured to be thin/thinner?
No. I choose to be where i'm at, which is to be healthy and fit.

Have you made fun of someone for being overweight?
Yes, all the time. I guess it's regression from when i was fat. Plus, i do it to the guys, they take it with humor.

Why would you make fun of someone for being overweight?
Well, i only make fun of them when the other person talks shit. But i have never said it to a girl. I don;t think i ever will.. .