Suck it up

So it didn’t take me long to find a completely bathroom unrelated topic which annoys me. Skinny girls who like to talk about how fat they are.  Why does this annoy me? Because I am NOT a skinny girl. So my initial thought when I overhear these types of conversations is… if they are fat… what would my classification be? “ALERT SEA WORLD!!! Shamoo has escaped!”And while I am not skinny I’m not “fat”. I’m: average, healthy, big boned, a marvel of advanced German engineering. But I was one a good bit heavier and there’s still a bit of that fat girl inside of me and man she gets pissed when skinny people complain.

The strange thing I have noticed about these conversations is that they tend to take place amongst groups of skinny girls. I’m not sure if it’s a genuine concern they are expressing which I suppose would be a commentary on the increase of eating disorders among young women in Western Society. Or if they are simple playing the game of fishing for compliments. You know how it goes…

Skinny Girl #1: “Oh my God I’m getting sooooo fat”

Skinny Girl#2:  “Shut up! You’re not fat you’re like suuuuper skinny, I wish I was as skinny as youuuuu.”

April: **grabs her muffin top and gives it a little jiggle**

Whatever the cause or the reason. I wonder if these individuals ever stop to think that there are people all over the place bigger than them and that perhaps they aren’t the people to be having this conversation around.  The last time one of these conversations took place in my vicinity I spoke up. “If you’re fat… what does that leave me? I’m bigger than you.” The skinny girl’s response was… a momentary stunned silence and the response of “You’re not big, you look great.” The same person so quick to label herself as fat never would have given that label to me. But the fact remains… if you don’t think I’m fat, and you’re smaller than me… then why do you think you’re fat? She didn’t have an answer, and few probably would. Perhaps because people hold themselves to higher standards than they do others? But then again if that were the case people wouldn’t more people be… better people?

I for one am extremely thankful that while I have several extremely skinny friends, they are not privy to this kind of thing.  They all seem to realize that the transition from a size zero to  a size two is not in fact the end of the world, nor does an extra ten pounds push them into the Welterweight category.