For the sake of this free thought I will use the term centre weight. This does NOT mean that I feel there is an 'ideal weight' or that it is 'wrong' to be above or below this weight. My own personal opinion is that unless it makes you unhealthy or unable to complete simple, common tasks it's your choice.
That said, I don't feel like looking at everyone else's fat. And I use the term fat because I'm honest. To say someone is "overweight" instantly implies that there is an ideal weight which one could go over. Which seems kind of contradictory to what people who use the term "overweight" want us to think. Confuses the hell out of me. Anyway....
In the world today there is fashion trend which I, one with very minimal knowledge in fashion, assume has been going on since about the sixties. That trend (if you can call 40 year fashion a trend) is tight, revealing clothing. Nearly every clothing company in North America has billboards up of attractive individuals with nicely toned bodies wearing tight clothing. For the men, it is often tight to show off the abs and chest. For a woman, it usually reveals the stomach and is to show off the ass and breasts and legs. The key word here is "show off".
The term to show off indicates that you have something to show off. If you have nothing to show off, you can't very well show it off. After all, how is it possible to show off your wealth if your poor? I would like to state plainly and straight forward for all the men and women in particular (as increasingly they are the ones wearing tight clothing MUCH more often) of sciforums - if you do NOT have it, do NOT flaunt it. If you have very small breasts, do not wear clothing designed to show off natural breasts. If you have an unnatractive rear and you know it, please don't wear pants designed to show off a nice ass. And I would like to make this clear now - when I say clothing designed to show nice breasts or nice ass or nice legs or nice stomach I mean "nice" in the sense of the common North American view and what the clothes are designed for as, of course, beauty is subjective.
Those two things though (breasts, ass) aren't my major concern. My major concern is women who are not of centre weight who wear extremely tight tops and jeans who have their stomachs showing or their ass accentuated or anything else like that. For the love of god almighty why do they do this? It confuses the hell out of me. I know for a fact that tight clothing is not particularily comfortable. There is very little tight clothing I have worn that was more comfortable than sweats and a t-shirt. And I have never once heard a woman say "yeah, these tight, tight jeans are so easy to get into and comfortable". So it's obviously not for comfort reasons. All I can think of is to attract men (or, women I suppose). Well, here it is from a typical male - THAT IS NOT ATTRACTIVE!!!! It is so very detrimental to a woman's (or a man's) appearance to wear clothing which is not fit for their body design. There is very, very few men who wish to look at a 5'2 150 lbs. woman's gut spill out from the bottom of her tight shirt or see a 5'5 165 lbs. woman's ass in the tightest jeans imaginable. These articles of clothing are designed for people with today's North American "ideal weight" or just above/below. Here's a little tip - if you could loose 20-30+ lbs through exercise and a healthy (not eating too little) diet and remain in a perfectly healthy weight you should never be wearing tight, tight clothing. It is unpleasant to look at. If you wore a t-shirt and some loose jeans or sweatpants or anything not tight I say all the power to you, enjoy whatever healthy weight you wish to maintain and I will respect you just as much. But do not try to flaunt what you don't have. Remember - you would laugh at the pauper showing off his wealth.
While I'm on the subject I would liek to address two minor issues as well. The term BBW and the phrase "Proud to be Fat!". The former I am willing to bet every young male on this board at some time or another ran across while searching for pictures of hot girls and quickly learned BBW stands for Big Beautiful Woman. This is a minor issue as I am simply opposed to the term. Just as being thin or fit does not equal beautiful, in no way does being fat equal beautiful.
The second is something I've seen on a few occasions. I've seen it as a bumper sticker and as a little graphic on numerous neo-Feminist site. And no, I'm not going to rant on the feminists now as I don't equate Proud To Be Fat to feminism. However, this saying is stupid and irresponsible. No person should be "proud" to be fat. For starters, the term "proud" implies satisfaction over an act one or a group completed. There is ZERO skill, ability or practice necessary to become fat. Therefore, I see no reason to have pride because there is no accomplishment. Second, no individual, in my opinion, should be content with being fat (again I remind you I refuse to use the term overweight here because that implies an ideal weight). You should not be happy to be fat IF (and this is a biiiiiig if) you have the ability to loose weight. Being within a certain weight (which differs for every individual's height and body type) will allow one to be better at athletics, more mobile, healtier and believe it or not, better suited for business and social interaction. Plus, for most people it tends to increase self confidence. However, IF you are one of those individuals for whom it is extremely difficult or impossible to loose weight with a healthy method I have absolutely no disrespect and totally understand the situation. For those individuals I see how depression over one's body weight occurs, however I feel they should eventually be accepting and content with their body (thoguh I realize just how much easier it is to say than to do). That said, the vast majority of people simply don't do enough exercise and have poor diets. Having troubles loosing weight? Run 6 or 7 km (that's about 4.5 miles to Yanks) 4 or 5 days a week and within months I guarantee a visual notice in weight lose. Can't run that far? Build up to it. It takes time, but so what. Of course, there are also individuals who simply don't have the time to run that distance every day. Eat healthy and get in exercise when you can. And be content with your body style because obviously there is little time for you to do what it would take to get in better shape. That said, for a while I woke up at 4:30 in the morning to run 10k after usually waking up at around 11 (it was too hot in Toronto to run during the day).
I suppose my only reason for posting this is because tomorrow is back to school and I am guaranteed to encounter countless very out of shape women in skin tight shirts and jeans designed to show off their 36 waist. Please, please. For the love of god either give me a logical reason to wear these clothes (comfort is not the answer because that's a lie and to look attractive to men/women is not the answer because, as I said, tight clothing on a woman not fit to wear tight clothing is one of the least attractive things I know of) or put on a fucking pair of loose pants and a t-shirt.
And I assume right about now I'll have a few ladies on my back for being sexist or uncaring!
That said, I don't feel like looking at everyone else's fat. And I use the term fat because I'm honest. To say someone is "overweight" instantly implies that there is an ideal weight which one could go over. Which seems kind of contradictory to what people who use the term "overweight" want us to think. Confuses the hell out of me. Anyway....
In the world today there is fashion trend which I, one with very minimal knowledge in fashion, assume has been going on since about the sixties. That trend (if you can call 40 year fashion a trend) is tight, revealing clothing. Nearly every clothing company in North America has billboards up of attractive individuals with nicely toned bodies wearing tight clothing. For the men, it is often tight to show off the abs and chest. For a woman, it usually reveals the stomach and is to show off the ass and breasts and legs. The key word here is "show off".
The term to show off indicates that you have something to show off. If you have nothing to show off, you can't very well show it off. After all, how is it possible to show off your wealth if your poor? I would like to state plainly and straight forward for all the men and women in particular (as increasingly they are the ones wearing tight clothing MUCH more often) of sciforums - if you do NOT have it, do NOT flaunt it. If you have very small breasts, do not wear clothing designed to show off natural breasts. If you have an unnatractive rear and you know it, please don't wear pants designed to show off a nice ass. And I would like to make this clear now - when I say clothing designed to show nice breasts or nice ass or nice legs or nice stomach I mean "nice" in the sense of the common North American view and what the clothes are designed for as, of course, beauty is subjective.
Those two things though (breasts, ass) aren't my major concern. My major concern is women who are not of centre weight who wear extremely tight tops and jeans who have their stomachs showing or their ass accentuated or anything else like that. For the love of god almighty why do they do this? It confuses the hell out of me. I know for a fact that tight clothing is not particularily comfortable. There is very little tight clothing I have worn that was more comfortable than sweats and a t-shirt. And I have never once heard a woman say "yeah, these tight, tight jeans are so easy to get into and comfortable". So it's obviously not for comfort reasons. All I can think of is to attract men (or, women I suppose). Well, here it is from a typical male - THAT IS NOT ATTRACTIVE!!!! It is so very detrimental to a woman's (or a man's) appearance to wear clothing which is not fit for their body design. There is very, very few men who wish to look at a 5'2 150 lbs. woman's gut spill out from the bottom of her tight shirt or see a 5'5 165 lbs. woman's ass in the tightest jeans imaginable. These articles of clothing are designed for people with today's North American "ideal weight" or just above/below. Here's a little tip - if you could loose 20-30+ lbs through exercise and a healthy (not eating too little) diet and remain in a perfectly healthy weight you should never be wearing tight, tight clothing. It is unpleasant to look at. If you wore a t-shirt and some loose jeans or sweatpants or anything not tight I say all the power to you, enjoy whatever healthy weight you wish to maintain and I will respect you just as much. But do not try to flaunt what you don't have. Remember - you would laugh at the pauper showing off his wealth.
While I'm on the subject I would liek to address two minor issues as well. The term BBW and the phrase "Proud to be Fat!". The former I am willing to bet every young male on this board at some time or another ran across while searching for pictures of hot girls and quickly learned BBW stands for Big Beautiful Woman. This is a minor issue as I am simply opposed to the term. Just as being thin or fit does not equal beautiful, in no way does being fat equal beautiful.
The second is something I've seen on a few occasions. I've seen it as a bumper sticker and as a little graphic on numerous neo-Feminist site. And no, I'm not going to rant on the feminists now as I don't equate Proud To Be Fat to feminism. However, this saying is stupid and irresponsible. No person should be "proud" to be fat. For starters, the term "proud" implies satisfaction over an act one or a group completed. There is ZERO skill, ability or practice necessary to become fat. Therefore, I see no reason to have pride because there is no accomplishment. Second, no individual, in my opinion, should be content with being fat (again I remind you I refuse to use the term overweight here because that implies an ideal weight). You should not be happy to be fat IF (and this is a biiiiiig if) you have the ability to loose weight. Being within a certain weight (which differs for every individual's height and body type) will allow one to be better at athletics, more mobile, healtier and believe it or not, better suited for business and social interaction. Plus, for most people it tends to increase self confidence. However, IF you are one of those individuals for whom it is extremely difficult or impossible to loose weight with a healthy method I have absolutely no disrespect and totally understand the situation. For those individuals I see how depression over one's body weight occurs, however I feel they should eventually be accepting and content with their body (thoguh I realize just how much easier it is to say than to do). That said, the vast majority of people simply don't do enough exercise and have poor diets. Having troubles loosing weight? Run 6 or 7 km (that's about 4.5 miles to Yanks) 4 or 5 days a week and within months I guarantee a visual notice in weight lose. Can't run that far? Build up to it. It takes time, but so what. Of course, there are also individuals who simply don't have the time to run that distance every day. Eat healthy and get in exercise when you can. And be content with your body style because obviously there is little time for you to do what it would take to get in better shape. That said, for a while I woke up at 4:30 in the morning to run 10k after usually waking up at around 11 (it was too hot in Toronto to run during the day).
I suppose my only reason for posting this is because tomorrow is back to school and I am guaranteed to encounter countless very out of shape women in skin tight shirts and jeans designed to show off their 36 waist. Please, please. For the love of god either give me a logical reason to wear these clothes (comfort is not the answer because that's a lie and to look attractive to men/women is not the answer because, as I said, tight clothing on a woman not fit to wear tight clothing is one of the least attractive things I know of) or put on a fucking pair of loose pants and a t-shirt.
And I assume right about now I'll have a few ladies on my back for being sexist or uncaring!