re: Making fun of skinny people

I hear skinny jokes all day. I'm 6'4" and weigh 140. The jokes don't bother me being that I've heard them all and they're unoriginal. I think it has to do with jealousy, cause most people follow up the joke with I wish I could eat like you and not gain weight

Being called skinny as an attempted insult is like being called a honkey.

Why, thank you. I’m quite proud of it.

Yo momma so skinny she has to run around the shower to get wet.

I was a skinny weakling as a child. I would even get sand kicked in my face at the beach. Then I saw this ad, but the bully had stolen all of my money. Undeterred, I started a GoFundMe page to raise the money. A few dollars more and I can exact revenge on my tormentors.

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I hear skinny jokes all day. I'm 6'4" and weigh 140

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Holy moly. You need to gain 80 pounds.

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think it has to do with jealousy,

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Jealous you can eat without gaining weight, because they wish they could eat like that.

They don’t want to weigh 140 lbs.

the only time it’s inappropriate is if said person has a bad eating disorder. had a platonic female friend throughout childhood who struggled with bulimia to the point that it threatened her life.

and that was without being the expense of skinny jokes

but yes, all skinny shaming should be reversed to fat people

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Jealous you can eat without gaining weight, because they wish they could eat like that.

They don’t want to weigh 140 lbs.

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If they are fat, they definitely would rather be 140. Being skinny will always be seen as more favorable than being fat. Also, you don't have all the additional health issues that come with being fat.

When I was I HS I was 6' and 115.....people would call me boney and make fun of me. And Yea, I was boney. But then I ran an 880 at a track meet in 6th grade and crushed everyone and I realized being skinny like a Kenyan was OK.

The kids in our family are always super skinny for some reason. We call them minnow-butt , spider monkeys. mosquito-butt and say that have a body you could pick a lock with. and such. So we do tease them about it (and many other things, in a loving way)

ETA. I maintained my small size as an adult but at one point I because very ill and was so skinny. It was actually pitiful looking. I'm about 5 ft and being at 80 lbs looked horrific and it was so painful because my bones hit everything because i had no fat to cushion them.

Now i prefer to keep a few extra lbs on because I look so much better at a healthy weight