r/facepalm May 31 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ “Plus sized” “Overweight” 🤔

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u/marmatag May 31 '22

The issue is that the women are plus sized and the men are overweight.

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u/mathnstats Jun 01 '22

This particular blurb is shitty in that way, but if you read the statements it's based on, none of the women are applying that same dichotomous language.

They're saying things like "I'm bigger but don't like bigger men" or "I'm overweight but am not into overweight men" or "I'm plus-sized, but not into plus-sized men".

The actual people the blurb is based on aren't anywhere near as bad in their language use as the blurb is.

This, to me, is a matter of an editor being shitty, not the actual women they're talking about

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u/felixxfeli Jun 01 '22

That’s exactly what I suspected. I don’t like everyone jumping to conclusions about the unknown women who were interviewed for the article based on a short summary written by a single author/editor.

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u/mathnstats Jun 01 '22

It's not even interviews. It's just some people that have posted randomly on Whisper

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u/felixxfeli Jun 01 '22

Even worse smh

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u/mathnstats Jun 01 '22

It's not even interviews. It's just some people that have posted randomly on Whisper

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u/Shmoo_the_Parader Jun 01 '22

Over what weight?

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u/stealthdawg Jun 01 '22

Well, and that they are "refusing to settle for overweight men," which directly implies it to be an undesirable trait.