Am I Fat?! | TheaterFire

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rpv123@reddit

Gen Alpha would tell you “why do you need me to tell you? Mirrors exist for a reason” (Gen Alpha is scary mean.)

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AquaLimeFresca@reddit

I am of the belief that Gen Alpha is the reincarnation of GenX. They are savage and don’t give AF.

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drbutters76@reddit

This. My kid. Horrible. I try to stay out of the line of fire.

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Katjhud@reddit

Can attest to this. Gen x here with kids in gen z and gen alpha. And those gen alphas and super young gen zs have a combo of kind and super call it like they see it mean.

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helpitgrow@reddit

My kid made a friend of mine cry. I asked, “How?”. She said, “honesty”.

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Terrorcuda17@reddit

I'm sorry I said you were stupid. I thought you already knew.

Classic GenX.

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My Gen Alpha son makes me, an elder millennial, feel like I’m being bullied by my Gen X sister. Luckily, I spent my childhood learning how to stand up for myself so I dish it right back and take away privileged when he goes too far.

Honestly, I think it’s hilarious how many millennials tried to send their kids to Montessori schools and buy them shirts that say things like “I Choose Kindness” and try to gentle parent them only for them to act like little assholes. Those kids are the actual worst because they’re never actually taught limits. My kid is an asshole too, but he knows when he’s getting close to crossing a line and stops.

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farahwhy@reddit

I saw my aunt a few weeks ago and she told me three times I am fat. I did put on some weight around my middle but I still weigh less than 120 lbs. my mom died in Jan. I will blame it on that.

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Blerkm@reddit

My mom visited me last weekend. We decided to watch the amazing old movie “Some Like It Hot”. Mom said Marylin Monroe looked fat. I wish I were joking. Mom definitely has issues with food and body image.

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Knitmarefirst@reddit

Girl your aunt is the problem weight. She needs a Gen Z person to tell her we don’t body shame.

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OneNo5482@reddit

Did you eat your mom?

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NotNobody_Somebody@reddit

WTF!

How insensitive. I am sorry for your loss.
120lbs is only fat if you are 3 and a half feet tall.

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Adventurous-Brain-36@reddit

I’m so sorry for your loss.

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Salt_Honey8650@reddit

Yeah, auntie... But I could lose the weight while you couldn't lose the ugly. Inside or out.

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GenX-ModTeam@reddit

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ScreenTricky4257@reddit

You ain't fat, you ain't nothin'!

You ain't nothin'!

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grumpycat46@reddit

Well If you call someone Fat, just don't be offended if they call you some thing worse back, you gotta take it if you gonna dish it

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TapeFlip187@reddit

Wait - is it ok to be fat or is bad to be fat?\ Is it an insult or a descriptor, like 'tall' or 'brunette'?

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tindalos@reddit

You can test this in public - find two woman and call on “tall” and one “fat” and see what happens.

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TapeFlip187@reddit

That's my point. Being fat cant both be embraced as the beautiful human body and be used an insult.\ If I say "i dont want to buy new clothes, I'm fat rt now" bc I'm 10lbs up, people scramble to argue w/me. I dont need that argued. It's a fact. If I really cared about those 10lbs, Id work harder to lose it, but im not up to it these days so what you see is what you get - fat 🤷🏽‍♀️\ I don't get what's so offensive about it. It's happening.\ (rhetorical)

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retromafia@reddit

Descriptor: Being obese is bad, healthwise, like having high blood pressure. If someone can correct it, they should.

But that's a different thing than saying fat people are less deserving of compassion, which is obviously untrue. Using it as an insult is pathetic.

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TapeFlip187@reddit

That totally make sense.

I was more wondering why a person being called 'fat' would "call you something worse back". What does that even mean?

"Yeah, you're a bit fat."\ "Well, you have blue eyes!!"\ wth kind of conversation is this?

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Acceptable_Car_1833@reddit

A: "You're fat." B: "Well, you're stupid and I can lose weight."

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TravelingAardvark@reddit

My mother-in-law used to say “You got fat!” every time she saw us after a long time away. But she was SE Asian, and that was culturally ok, and always said good naturedly. Still took some getting used to!

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Flyingarrow68@reddit

I always loved Jim Carrey to Courtney Cox, Why don’t you cry about it Saddlebags. I always tell people I’m too lazy to be fat as I don’t want to carry extra weight around.

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Darostheone@reddit

GenX'rs, we are hilariously savage.

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Grobbekee@reddit

I wasn't. I spent my whole youth in church. Still trying to shake all the niceness conditioning.

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kalelopaka@reddit

We just had no problem cutting each other down, and we were totally fine with that. It was always taken as just friendly banter. I used to cut on my black, Irish, Italian and German friends with ethnic jokes and they would laugh and do the same thing to me. Any little thing we could pick at was fair game, it wasn’t meant maliciously, it was all just joking around. We all laughed and had a great time. It’s why insults have no meaning to us.

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downpourbluey@reddit

We weren’t always fine with that, but we knew we were supposed to laugh.

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printerdsw1968@reddit

The ninth grade cut downs were legendary.

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essskaayeee@reddit

When I was younger, and not fat, my brother would song “fatty, fatty, 2x4, can’t fit through the kitchen door”. Anyone else? Signed, omg I wish I was that “fat” again.

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lostmindz@reddit

I cried about this just a few days ago.

I was going through a box of old things and came across an item of clothing I wore in my 20s... I was so tiny. and hated myself for being 'fat' then

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CrackedCrystalBall25@reddit

Omg I wish I was that fat again. Like I wish I was even post partum fat again. We were awful to ourselves for sure.

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VolupVeVa@reddit

typing out a meme you saw posted as an image on facebook into Reddit is boomer behaviour pls stop

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poppyjean70@reddit

Some GenX parents are the Silent Generation, and those Mom's responses would be, "Well, you have such a pretty face dear."

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2_Bagel_Dog@reddit

"You are well proportioned"

Huh?

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GboyFlex@reddit

My 86 yr old silent generation mom is exactly like that.

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rollerblade7@reddit

My mother told my 22 year old daughter that she was glad she lost weight, but she could lose some more. My daughter no longer speaks to her grandmother - both of them are too stubborn to move from their rocks

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RaggedyMan666@reddit

Ouch

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morts73@reddit

I hate the needy "Am I fat" question, looking for mamby pamby response. Gen X response is the perfect reply.

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jfhndz@reddit

Gen X: Whatever…everyone is fat

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ShimmyxSham@reddit

What a shitty post

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Mission_Doughnut4664@reddit

Boomers are way more brutal than that…but overall very accurate!

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tindalos@reddit

Boomers do not shy away from their opinions on fat and DEI. they grew up in a different world and we are still trying to get them to let go of it.

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zephyrthewonderdog@reddit

Are we allowed to tell our grown up kids they are fat? Asking for a friend obviously. My wife said telling a 20yr old that he should “maybe try and have a fucking apple for a snack rather than another fucking burger ” was slightly rude. He just laughed. It was said from a place of love and understanding obviously.

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The_Inward@reddit

I don't know about you, but I know I'm fat.

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Purgii@reddit

You have more Chins than a Chinese phone book.

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dragonmom1971@reddit

😆 true

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Ok-Candle-2562@reddit

My Silent Gen MIL to me: 'You know... thinner women are more attractive. You should lose some weight and you'll be more attractive to everybody and have more success in life."

I hadn't seen her in a few years because I'd been really sick and on Prednisone for most of that. I was applying for SSDI after losing everything to my health.

But yeah, nice to see you, too. I tried to let it slide. I did. But it hurt.

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mpete76@reddit

Sounds like my MIL (Boomer) to my wife (GenX). I love my wife just the way she is and tell her so, any body issues she has come directly from her mother telling her shit like that. Something we are trying not to do with our children. Just keeping them healthy and active. Not really all that easy, teenagers want to eat everything.

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nerdrific@reddit

I recently traveled thousands of miles to visit my 94 year old grandmother. When I arrived, she told me she hasn’t seen me in 30 years (I last saw her about a year ago) and that “we were both skinny then”.

I’m heavier than she remembers me. She is smaller than I remember her. It’s all relative.

We had a good visit and I’m glad I went.

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AttorneyKate@reddit

Damn I need to remember to do this to my grandkids every year lol.

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AttorneyKate@reddit

…. The 30 years part ….

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Xo-Mo@reddit

Don't forget the Anime Weeb culture, where being what is now called "Thicc" (which is medically considered obese) is considered to be a hot, sexy MILF or a study DILF. Something considered the epitome of sexiness in their eyes. There are variations of "Thiccness". Having peered into that genre of Japanese fantasy culture, it confuses the perspective many of us grew up with as GenX.

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SoCalChrisW@reddit

I took /u/Do_it_My_Way-79 to the dance, and they made the band skip.

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SojuSeed@reddit

As a formerly obese guy who now just needs to shed the last 15lbs or so, the whole fat acceptance movement drives me batshit insane.

People should not be discriminated against because of their weight. Like they are less of a person because of those extra pounds is wrong. Don’t do that. But pretending that ‘beautiful at any size’ and ‘you can be fat and healthy’ is damaging and dangerous. There is nothing good about being fat. It sucks all the time. You feel like shit, you look like shit, you are tired all the time, you hate your own reflection, and health problems start to compound.

So yeah, fat person. You’re fat. No, it’s not good. You’re not a bad person because you are fat, you are not less deserving of love and respect because you are fat. But you are fat and I won’t pretend you’re healthy while being a hundred pounds overweight.

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moscowramada@reddit

I’m not gonna argue it’s healthier but my hot take is that sometimes I like fat people more when they were fat: they were more charismatic and sometimes even easier on the eyes. So sue me.

Exhibit A: Jonah Hill.

Exhibit B: Chris Farley.

I could actually give more examples but I’ll stop there.

Personally I don’t think skinny Chris Farley would’ve been as funny as the one we got. I guess if we’re speaking “hard truths” here, that is mine.

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imrickjamesbioch@reddit

Um Chris Farley died at 33 cuz he was a fat, cokehead, and drunk… I don’t think a salad or two would have hurt his seefood diet.

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SneauPhlaiche@reddit

But Farley might be alive.

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SojuSeed@reddit

That’s a whole other conversation. My point was only that being obese is not good from a health standpoint.

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syzygialchaos@reddit

Honesty in order to help someone is better for them than the shallow kindness that does harm

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in-a-microbus@reddit

Like they are less of a person because of those extra pounds is wrong

I think we all agree they are not less of a person.

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spamtardeggs@reddit

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SojuSeed@reddit

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Winter-Fondant7875@reddit

You’re not a bad person because you are fat, you are not less deserving of love and respect because you are fat

Yup. Same as you're not automatically deserving of love and respect or are magically a better person because you're average weight or thin.

Question is: is current you happy with your shape, activity level, and headspace? If not, be nice to future you and do something different. Everyone else's opinion should take a hike.

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Azzhole169@reddit

I just had this discussion with my millennial girlfriend last week, her response to friends- you look fine, my response- you could probably lose 20lbs. She’s gentle, I’m blunt.

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gravityhomer@reddit

In my family, kids usually get wider before taller all through the early teen years. My brother and I used to call our little sister tons of fun when it was her turn.

Seriously why does this sound so bad now but when we were younger it was like totally normal. We would all laugh about a few years later.

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Katjhud@reddit

Did you make this up because this is hilarious and near spot on. The only thing I’d change is boomers to say: you could lose quite a lot of pounds. (And then they All come on the internet and trash talk every single person).

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Tammy993@reddit

Our whole society needs to stop shaming people about their weight. In treatment for eating disorders we learned that you should not comment on someone's weight - gain or loss. Take the focus off appearance. People are already obsessed.

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REDDITSHITLORD@reddit

Nope! I shed my dad-bod when I turned turned 36, and haven't looked back.

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carlcarlson33@reddit

A friend that I haven't talked to in years messaged me out of the blue that I'm fat. Last week Mom said "You need to lose weight. Your gut is huge. " Thank God that we aren't sensitive. Imagine living with no sense of humor.

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