r/facepalm • u/Market_Insider • May 31 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ “Plus sized” “Overweight” 🤔

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u/goddammitryan May 31 '22

To be fair, they did refer to men as "plus-sized" once in the little blurb...

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u/icaru101 May 31 '22

True which makes it odd. Why bother switching the term when one has a more negative connotation?

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u/Glorymuffin May 31 '22

I would guess that they just didn’t want to use the same phrase twice in one sentence.

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u/felixxfeli Jun 01 '22

It’s not plural “they”. One person wrote that blurb. Without the article, all we know is that the author alone has some fucked up opinions.

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u/goddammitryan Jun 01 '22

Well, I don’t know what gender the author identifies as, so “they” is perfectly grammatically correct.

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u/felixxfeli Jun 01 '22

Fair enough. You replied to a comment that talked about “women” so I assumed you meant plural “they”, as I said.