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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.

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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.