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Originally Posted by Mountaindewed
When I was on the way home from therapy yesterday my mom said "I never saw your therapist up close before, but she sure is a large women"
All my life my mom would comment on peoples weight in real life and on TV. Like the news people. She'd be like "she looks pregnant" or "she looks like shes put on weight or else her dress is just too tight." My dad made fat jokes all the time.
I wonder if hearing all that stuff growing up contributed to my disordered thinking around my weight and food as an adult.
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100%. Although our whole society in the west has toxic notions about weight, especially in females. Online, women get way more nasty comments about their weight than men do. I've watched videos on Youtube of overweight dancers, and the men get comments like "way to go buddy, you can do it" and the women get comments like "Gross. You should lose 50 lbs before taking up dance." If a women doesn't state that she is actively losing weight, she is accused of fat acceptance. There are many men online who seem to detest all fat women, yet obesity in women is tied to factors like childhood poverty, sexual abuse and harassment, and eating disorders.