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Of course.. What used to be morbidly obese when i was a kid is now a healthy weight...BTW, are the stairs made out of Titanium?

Does Western society have a distorted normal body image due to rampant obesity?

Yes. Duh.

No, western fat women do.

The correct answer is: Systemic racism.

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

The correct answer is: Systemic racism.

And Putin.

No, just 🇳🇪🇳🇪

I always cringe when young, fit, pretty women who have great healthy levels of bodyfat feel the need to refer to themselves as "skinny". I feel like they think of themselves as skinny because hiphop / rap is very culturally influential on young people, and theres a lot of influential fat western women in that section of culture, and the fatties call each other skinny as a way to make themselves less fat. "shananay why you so skinny girl? men be lovin all dis women I carries aroun." (and shananay is 30lbs overweight, nevermind her fatter friend calling her skinny)

My definition of "skinny" is more of a combo of low bodyfat (such that your skin folds get very thin) AND lower than normal muscle mass. Lean but sufficient muscle mass isnt skinny IMO.

Maybe part of it is theyd rather refer to themselves as skinny so as to not comparatively implicate an angry fatty as being fat.

HeadSet says

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

The correct answer is: Systemic racism.

And Putin.

and white male patriarchy

Does a bear shit in the woods?

Chubby now ecapsulates "morbidly obese"

Patrick says

This is the fraud promoted by healthscare industry.

Blue says

This is the fraud promoted by healthscare industry.

We're all old and feeling our age and realizing our health care system just exploits us and doesn't help us.

We either correct it, or at least warn the younger generations, so they can have a chance of fixing it. We've had a long life, welcome to having a duty beyond your life.

I still remember being 20 and having the idea that it was unimaginable to live to 50, here I am, or part of me is. My 20 year old self, he's dead. I have some of his memories, but I'm not him.

It's our duty at this point to educate the younger generation not only to avoid the gross errors we made, but the terrible errors the boomer generation made. No offense to the boomers, but I think they did a particular bad job of educating the young, however to give them some leeway, they went through enormous and rapid change.

Still, I won't forgive them for marching my generation into Operation Desert Storm when they were pushed into Vietnam, it was the same. They knew better. I remember that time and how little resistance that was put up. It destroyed my concept of the "make love not war" generation. I thought they were anti-war, they weren't, they were anti-draft. It dispelled the myth I had on their stated belief that government sanctioned murder was wrong. The vast majority of them were fine with government sanctioned murder provided their kids were driven into it, and not them.

Took a hazard bike ride around Santa Cruz today. Along with getting 'doored', 'car mirrored', 'garbage pails in streeted', 'pedestrianed', 'little running kidded', 'skateborded', and just plain being hit by other wobblers on bicycles, there is the new hazard of the EV boards and bicycles on the bicycle paths. Fucking electric bicycles are not bicycles, they are electric motorcycles and should be in traffic, not running over cyclists on the paths.

Of course there is the added hazard at the Boardwalk of what seems like innumerable hoards of incredibly obese Mexicans and their scores of 200 pound children. How many fat Meskins can California hold before it sinks?

I guess getting 'teeny weeny bikini'd' by flashing coeds isn't so bad, but I come back from these bike trips feeling like I'm skinny, and I am not.

Ceffer says

Of course there is the added hazard at the Boardwalk of what seems like innumerable hoards of incredibly obese Mexicans and their scores of 200 pound children.

Hollywod says this is fine.