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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Is it a regional or sexist issue with people stating their body type.
So I’ve met some that are a dress size 8/10, and class themselves as average, a size 12, as curvy, and then a size 14 as average?
I see athletic describe a size 6 runner, but then a clear size 14/16 also athletic?
Men I see athletic waste bands from a 30” to a 40”, I’ve seen a slim 36” waste on a 5ft4 man, and I’ve seen a large 32” waste on a 6ft man?
Can people be more honest, or get better mirrors, or do men and women from different areas class slim and large completely differently? |
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"Is it a regional or sexist issue with people stating their body type.
So I’ve met some that are a dress size 8/10, and class themselves as average, a size 12, as curvy, and then a size 14 as average?
I see athletic describe a size 6 runner, but then a clear size 14/16 also athletic?
Men I see athletic waste bands from a 30” to a 40”, I’ve seen a slim 36” waste on a 5ft4 man, and I’ve seen a large 32” waste on a 6ft man?
Can people be more honest, or get better mirrors, or do men and women from different areas class slim and large completely differently?"
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"Is it a regional or sexist issue with people stating their body type.
So I’ve met some that are a dress size 8/10, and class themselves as average, a size 12, as curvy, and then a size 14 as average?
I see athletic describe a size 6 runner, but then a clear size 14/16 also athletic?
Men I see athletic waste bands from a 30” to a 40”, I’ve seen a slim 36” waste on a 5ft4 man, and I’ve seen a large 32” waste on a 6ft man?
Can people be more honest, or get better mirrors, or do men and women from different areas class slim and large completely differently?"
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The fab body type options aren't ideal, as our starting point, especially as they are the same for all genders.
As UK body weights have increased compared to the past, an average is probably now somewhat overwhat, when average 20 years ago would have been closer to lean.
Other sites that use physical info mix it between users adding more data, waist, chest etc or more descriptive gender-relevant labels.
Like a bit of fab, this is trailing much of the net.
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You forget that skeletal size also attributes to actual size. I was anorexic with size 12 hips. Since having severe spd my hips splay more the smallest size is be able wear now is a 14/16 if I lost all the weight. People's bodies are different and they change, some people weigh more because their bones are more dense. Slender people can weigh more than someone same physical measurements due to muscle weight, internal fat density and bone density.
Everyone is different and if people focus on physical features you miss out on who they are as a person. Short, tall, thin, wide, lean, fat, thin shoulders, broad shoulders, list goes on the combinations go on and on. Enjoy what makes us all unique not judge. |
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"You forget that skeletal size also attributes to actual size. I was anorexic with size 12 hips. Since having severe spd my hips splay more the smallest size is be able wear now is a 14/16 if I lost all the weight. People's bodies are different and they change, some people weigh more because their bones are more dense. Slender people can weigh more than someone same physical measurements due to muscle weight, internal fat density and bone density.
Everyone is different and if people focus on physical features you miss out on who they are as a person. Short, tall, thin, wide, lean, fat, thin shoulders, broad shoulders, list goes on the combinations go on and on. Enjoy what makes us all unique not judge."
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By *mberWoman
over a year ago
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I'm a size 10.
I've put curvy.
Curvy is not a size. It's a shape and I am.
You can be slim and curvy, you can be fat and curvy.
You can also be slim or fat and not curvy.
Better to just look at the photos. |
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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago
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It really doesn't matter what you put your body type as. I could say I'm athletic if I wanted, but people are generally smart enough to look at the pictures and judge for themselves aren't they? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The fella has body dismorphia, he definitely sees people bigger than they actually are including himself, nothing wrong with it or much he can do about it, it's just him. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'd agree that it's much more complex than a few set labels that we have the option to choose from.
I'm now a size 12-14 and I describe myself as curvy, although I'm told.the average dress size for a woman is a UK 16.
I just don't think you can judge everyone the same way based on a one word description, I was a size 6 a few years ago, but I wasn't athletic. I was up to my eyeballs in an eating disorder and I was underweight.
One person's "athletic" size is another person's "underweight and killing myself" size.
I find it much easier just to look at photos to get an idea of what someone looks like. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Just throwing it out there but surely how everyone sees themselves is their own business?? Not sure why everyone should justify themselves to you OP....especially about their WAIST size |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I’m what you see is what you get, how you want to describe me then it’s up to you. I can vary from curvy to obese especially get told obese by people I say no thanks to .... I prefer to post pics and let people decide if they are interested in me or not. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I've put curvy on mine...size 16....5ft9...with wobbly bits lol  "
Very similar to me, I am 5ft 10, size 16-18.
I put curvy but also state my dress size in my bio because my corsets can make me look slimmer.
People can describe themselfs however they see themselfs, I might be ample to some but slim to others. Curvy is best as that can me any size and I have a very cirvy shape.
For men there should be a chubby/dad bod deacription as it just goes from average to ample and seen many men put curvy as a result of this |
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