Does My Ass Make My Pants Look Fat?
In purusing the internet, which I do from time to time, I came across this website: http://www.amifatornot.com/index.php
So… being morbidly curious about all things weird on the internet, I clicked. Now everyone and their ginger cat has heard of ‘Hot or Not’… but ‘Am I Fat?’ Are we really all so insecure that we need strangers to tell us whether or not we’re fat?
So… guess what. Most of the people on that site (I got bored after 6 clicks so bear with me if I’m making sweeping statements here) are just NORMAL looking people.
It’s a sad testament to the insecurity of 95% of the population. What’s even sadder is a couple of those people I saw on that site were downright SKINNY.
But then there’s the other side.. the part of US that judges other people based on how fat or skinny they are, whether or not they have nice hair, or their clothes are just right, etc etc etc. We spend endless amounts of time primping ourselves up, but make sure to point out everyone else’s flaws, just in case someone didn’t notice that we are oh so much more stylish, sophisticated and svelt.
You know when we’re born, and should we be lucky enough to live a long time, when we die, we all sorta look like some variation of an elder winston churchill. Whoever tells you babies are cute has some hormonal thing going on. They’re tubby and squashed and flubby… and they scream. But we like them for what they represent, so we call it cute. Anyway, birth, death, we all look like varying shades of raisins and for somewhere between 20 minutes to 20 years in the middle we’re really quite appealing.
Considering what a fractional moment it is in the lifetime of a human being, you’d think we’d have better questions to ask than: ‘Am I Fat Or Not’ How about: ‘Am I Judgemental.com’ or ‘Have I wasted my life and emotions on a corporation that can’t love me back.net’ or ‘Do I have to call other people fat/dumb/losers just to feel okay about myself.org’.
(This first appeared on my humor blog, Blogging for Bitter Women.)
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I would wager that very few of the pictures on that site weren’t put up by the people who created it, pulled from myspace and a thousand other places where such pictures are available. In other words, nothing to see here, move along, move along.
It could very well be that this site is fake, Walter. Good point. I hadn’t really thought about that aspect of it.
However, I can tell you that hot-or-not is not fake, and I know a handful of people personally that have submitted pictures to the site, then waited with bated breath to be told what the rest of the world rated them on ‘hotness’.
My point really is that I find it sad that we need other people to tell us what… and who… we are.
Thanks for the comment, Walter!
I completely agree. Total waste of time and completely sad & pointless. So, out of morbid curiosity, asked my husband. He thinks I’m hot and fat. Two more websites I don’t need to visit then…
Darling girls, I’m perfect, so I don’t have a horse in this race; howsomeever, people who can and do think the way you do, Jayne and English Mum, holding out for what is important and what isn’t, I declare to be perfect as well.
You go, Girls.
Yeah, the problem is the fact that there are too many people out there looking for validation- whether it’s winks on a dating site or “Hot” ratings on one of these sites. Eh, not my problem anyway.
Intriguing site you’ve got, and don’t be so bitter.
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That is terrible that women should care whether they are fat or not. Imagine the way men would bitch if they could only get validation by having a big c*** or if young males felt they needed to take steroids in their millions just to be acceptable to women?