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Arman · 13 answers · 3y
Have you ever encountered someone that was offended by your body? How would you react if someone expressed that your body/appearance made them uncomfortable?
Have you ever encountered someone that was offended by your body? How would you react if someone expressed that your body/appearance made them uncomfortable?
Middle school. I only had one outfit. I already felt frumpy and ugly and then some guy I had never seen before said with contempt, “don’t you have any other clothes ? You’re always wearing that.” And it started my lifelong self image issues and fear of appearing poor. :/ I ignored him but he got through. He got through.
I have mostly always been on the leaner side. I pretty much got the message early on in my life from my family/parents that this was unacceptable—as if I (a child) was purposely putting myself on a diet to keep skinny. I was often ridiculed by them for being this way. I spent the entirety of my childhood been force fed and being given concoction after concoction in an effort to fatten me up. I was spanked (and more) if I chose not to clean the adult-sized servings on my plate. If I complained of a headache I was spanked bc it was my fault for not eating enough. After a while, I kept the headaches which made me vomit a secret. I figured out later on as a teen that I had migraines bc I had needed glasses for quite some time. It’s this day, if anyone comments on my body it can be really triggering for me.
Yes. I encountered that. A woman body shamed me on a beach. She objected that I was nude and that I have no body hair. I just turned my back at her.
Yeah, it's a pretty common thing. I just think, oh wow, my bad, bro. Wow, bro, it's so bad because your body and existence, bro? it's so great, such a gift to the world. Man, I feel dumb for being born as if I'm just worthy of sharing a planet with a specimen like you. Boy do I feel silly
Of course, many, many times. I am considered as very unattractive or even ugly. Nothing you can do about it but take it most of the time, especially when you are still a kid but later, when I was an adult, it turned me on feeling it and hearing it coming from attractive females cause I became a masochist. Also my siblings were offended when they were still small and insulted me and I told them that it doesn't hurt me but it is indeed hurtful to other children and that it is mean and not okay. It is not their fault when they were born that way. I asked them to please don't do this to them.
I never have. If someone told me my protruding gut made them uncomfortable (because what else would it be?), I'd totally understand (well, it'd be odd since like 50% of people here are overweight), and I'd say sorry, I just keep eating and drinking sweets out of boredom and I can't help it because my life isn't very good.. I keep meaning to lose weight but I can never seem to start or at least I don't keep at it.
Lol...story of my life!!! When you're fat people seem to get offended by your body. It feels like you need to apologise for existing tbh. They also think we don't have mirrors at home and we don't know we're fat since they need to tell us constantly. They get offended if you go to the gym, if you wear a bikini or tight clothes. They get offended whenever you don't wear something that covers your whole body and it's loose because how the hell you dare to show your curves, rolls and cellulite? Ew, So gross...and I could go on and on...
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