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  • View Poll Results: Is size 16 fat?
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  1. zKlown's Avatar
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    Re: Is size 16 fat?
    (Original post by sahajkaur)
    how can you anyone argue that this is okay and not fat tbh...
    http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs31/f/20...by_mattyqu.jpg
    Yeah that is fat

    But unattractive?
  2. Wilfred Little's Avatar
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    Re: Is size 16 fat?
    (Original post by sahajkaur)
    here comes the negs but hey ho just my opinion; some people are naturally large butskinny so they have big sizes but arent fat but personally size 16 just misses that boundary and i personally would label it fat but thats just me. Like

    http://www.dollymix.tv/2008/04/size_...t_entrant.html

    here thats not jsut a large skeleton; theres definitely fat to be lost to match the skeleton and be in proportion. I dont think size 16 is ever okay
    :confused:

    And if size 16 is not a danger to your health (which it isn't), then how can it "never" be OK?

    Women are under a stupid amount of pressure to be sizes they don't necessarily suit just because society says they should.
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    Re: Is size 16 fat?
    (Original post by sahajkaur)
    how can you anyone argue that this is okay and not fat tbh...
    http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs31/f/20...by_mattyqu.jpg
    She's smaller than the first woman you posted but clearly has a higher body fat percentage which proves my point about size 16 "never" being OK.

    Her fat is mostly deposited on her stomach whereas the first is more evenly spread out, plus the 2nd woman looks shorter and has narrower hips. It's all about 1) genetics and 2) your frame.
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    Re: Is size 16 fat?
    Are you trying to tell me there are people out there who DON'T think size 16 is fat? Mind = blown.

    But in all seriousness, this whole "I'm a REAL woman and proud" **** needs to stop. You're not 'curvy', you're an eyesore. Lose some weight or jump into the ocean where you belong.
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    Re: Is size 16 fat?
    (Original post by rcummins1)
    Are you trying to tell me there are people out there who DON'T think size 16 is fat? Mind = blown.

    But in all seriousness, this whole "I'm a REAL woman and proud" **** needs to stop.
    You're not 'curvy', you're an eyesore. Lose some weight or jump into the ocean where you belong.
    I agreed with you until there.
  6. Wilfred Little's Avatar
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    Re: Is size 16 fat?
    http://www.inmalafide.com/wp-content...re-is-ugly.jpg

    The girl on the right is a size 16. How very dare she. :rolleyes:
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    Re: Is size 16 fat?
    Yep.
  8. Hugh G. Rection's Avatar
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    Re: Is size 16 fat?
    No where near fat...
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    Re: Is size 16 fat?
    it depends on a lot of things...
    myself and my sister are the same dress size for me it is fat im more.. delicate? smaller hands smaller feet, at the size i am im not in proportion think potato with cocktail stick arms and legs teeny weeny raisin head... dangerous that is gonna topple over! ... my sister however if she was smaller it wouldnt be right.. she would look out of proportion the other way... shes got wayyy bigger feet than me shes more athletically built shes the right size for her body.
    if that makes sense...
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    Re: Is size 16 fat?
    (Original post by Hugh G. Rection)
    No where near fat...
    http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/art...ley_graham.jpg

    Here's another size 16. She is very attractive.

    I could post equal amounts of terrible-looking size 8's and 10's, too. Does that mean they're too skinny?

    The point is this is entirely subjective and differs from size 16 to size 16. Calling them all fat does not send out the right message to those women who suit or look good at size 16.
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    Re: Is size 16 fat?
    (Original post by Wilfred Little)
    http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/art...ley_graham.jpg

    Here's another size 16. She is very attractive.

    I could post equal amounts of terrible-looking size 8's and 10's, too. Does that mean they're too skinny?

    The point is this is entirely subjective and differs from size 16 to size 16. Calling them all fat does not send out the right message to those women who suit or look good at size 16.
    This

    So basically what we're saying in this thread is;

    Size 16 is still fat but doesn't mean unattractive

    /thread
  12. bishbash72's Avatar
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    Re: Is size 16 fat?
    (Original post by Wilfred Little)
    That's not fat :confused:

    She looks great.
    I fail to see how she can not be considered fat.

    It's not like she's got a Christina Hendricks-type figure. Her waist is wider than her bust and almost as wide as her hips. She's fat.
  13. Wilfred Little's Avatar
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    Re: Is size 16 fat?
    (Original post by zKlown)
    This

    So basically what we're saying in this thread is;

    Size 16 is still fat but doesn't mean unattractive

    /thread
    That's what people are saying but it can't be because the size 16's I posted are all in shape.

    Size 16: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...her-stars.html
  14. zKlown's Avatar
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    Re: Is size 16 fat?
    (Original post by Wilfred Little)
    That's what people are saying but it can't be because the size 16's I posted are all in shape.

    Size 16: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...her-stars.html
    Nah she ain't in shape, she's just still attractive
  15. bishbash72's Avatar
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    Re: Is size 16 fat?
    (Original post by Wilfred Little)
    http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/art...ley_graham.jpg

    Here's another size 16. She is very attractive.

    I could post equal amounts of terrible-looking size 8's and 10's, too. Does that mean they're too skinny?

    The point is this is entirely subjective and differs from size 16 to size 16. Calling them all fat does not send out the right message to those women who suit or look good at size 16.
    Dude, you're into fat girls. I appreciate that, they need love too. But you don't need to insist that they're not fat. Both girls clearly are.
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    Re: Is size 16 fat?
    Yes - either fairly tubby to fat.


    (Original post by Hugh G. Rection)
    No where near fat...
    Rubbish.
    What would you consider fat then? Some one who is hyper obese?


    (Original post by Wilfred Little)
    http://www.inmalafide.com/wp-content...re-is-ugly.jpg

    The girl on the right is a size 16. How very dare she. :rolleyes:
    And she is quite tubby.



    (Original post by zKlown)
    Yeah that is fat

    But unattractive?
    Very. I would rather sleep alone than with her.
    Last edited by Jimbo1234; 03-06-2012 at 22:11.
  17. fbear's Avatar
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    Re: Is size 16 fat?
    (Original post by Callum828)
    Dude, you're into fat girls. I appreciate that, they need love too. But you don't need to insist that they're not fat. Both girls clearly are.
    I'm wondering how you define 'fat'?
  18. sii217's Avatar
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    Re: Is size 16 fat?
    I'd say it was fatter than a size 14, but not as fat as size 18.
  19. Wilfred Little's Avatar
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    Re: Is size 16 fat?
    (Original post by Callum828)
    Dude, you're into fat girls. I appreciate that, they need love too. But you don't need to insist that they're not fat. Both girls clearly are.
    http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/art...ley_graham.jpg

    Fat?
  20. G8D's Avatar
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    Re: Is size 16 fat?
    Most people at size 16 will be fat. Some will just be chubby.
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