I'm a petite and when I was super skinny I was put down by older people (both male and female). Not that all older people are the same, but I've heard "mean" comments on my looks by people who were born and raised under different, older, thinking patterns and either didn't care to educate themselves out of such limited thinking or were being mean because my looks somehow offended the way they saw the world.

I wonder if, in their mind, they were like "Oh boy, I bet Popuri didn't notice she is X and Y, I'd better let her know she won't get away with that in this world", or something.