[Laner]

I came across this article that, while giving a sad outlook on the US, proves that there might be some hope across the border in Vancouver.

Here is the article.

This grad student wants Vancouverites to accept her in her obesity. She is tired of feeling shame for her looks, having to import her clothes from the USA, and being used as the brunt of seduction pranks.

Some quotes.

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During my first week of graduate school two years ago, another plus-sized girl who was from the States cornered me at a party when she heard I had also done my undergrad here. “Where do you buy your clothes up here?” she whispered. I felt awful, because I was going to break her heart.

I told her the truth. I returned home to Portland often, with an empty suitcase and would pack it full of new clothes for three to six months until I could get back down to the States again.

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And then there’s my dating life in this city. I’ve basically become as celibate as Mother Teresa. After seeing exactly how dismal my sex life was, a roommate of mine convinced me to join a dating site.

In six months of being on the site, with a full body shot on my profile page, I received not a single message from anyone in the Vancouver area. The place I received the most requests for dates? Bellingham.

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In the time since I’ve moved to Vancouver, I’ve managed to partake in a few nights out in other cities: Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, and every major Scandinavian city brimming with beautiful blondes, including Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Oslo. In none of those places did anyone feel the need to go out of their way and verbally berate me about my weight as they have here in Vancouver.

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This is my declaration: I know I’m fat, Vancouver.

You can feel free to stop pointing it out and punishing me for it every time you get a chance. This includes the mothers walking in Kits who point at me and think I can’t hear them when they tell their kids they’ll look like me if they keep playing their Xbox all day.

[Roosh]

Her picture:

[Bronan the Barbarian!]

Yep, we have some seriously disgusting women in Portland. No surprise whatsoever. I love how she's trying to change the whole city to accept her morbid obesity rather than simply change herself. Bravo, Vancouver.

[Excelsior]

(07-03-2012 01:14 PM)Roosh Wrote:  

Her picture:

[Roosh]

Oops that first photo was from another fattie. This is the author:



"In six months of being on the site, with a full body shot on my profile page, I received not a single message from anyone in the Vancouver area."

Entitlement = being disgustingly fat and thinking men would chase you. I wonder if there is a country in the world where that actually happens??

[Timoteo]

This came across to me as her not so much wanting acceptance, but more her wanting to be invisible. If you don't want to fuck me, at least don't ridicule me. She's actually afraid of acceptance, so she's caught in form of pergatory. But you're right - at no point does she appear motivated to try to lose some weight.

[Excelsior]

(07-03-2012 01:36 PM)Roosh Wrote:  

Oops that first photo was from another fattie. This is the author:

Still...

[beta_plus]

Interesting, because Vancouver is hardly slender by international standards (though it is by American). If you look at the Stanley Cup Riot pictures, there are plenty of fatties and uggos. Though maybe not quite as bad as her.

[beta_plus]

“I could take them out for breakfast, lunch and dinner and I’d go broke!" - that made me LOL even though I did feel bad about the racist comments beforehand.

[WesternCancer]

beta_plus: a lot of those fatties were probably from surrey/the lower mainland. the further outside of Vancouver you get the fatter and more 'white trash' the girls/guys get. My hometown (about an hour away) is close to the american border and could easily pass for an american city in terms of fatness. All of the girls have attitudes, dress trashy, are chubby to obese and the dudes they are with are usually trashy wearing ed hardy/affliction.

Vancouver on the other hand is way more slim, but of course the girls aren't very attractive or feminine (for the most part). You do see some fatties, but they are usually either tourists or older women.

I really don't understand this article. Shes blaming everyone for making her feel bad about being fat, how she has to go out of her way to get clothes that fit. She blames every one else but herself for her lack of self worth. All she has to do is eat less and exercise and most of her problems will go away. I cant stand people who complain about such easily solvable problems.

[Private Man]

Wow, attempting to change the minds of millions of people (Vancouver metro area is bigger than 500K) rather than losing weight. Such a strong and independent woman! Well, not that strong because she's unwilling to lose weight and can't seem to resist cupcakes.

[beta_plus]

(07-03-2012 01:54 PM)WesternCancer Wrote:  

beta_plus: a lot of those fatties were probably from surrey/the lower mainland. the further outside of Vancouver you get the fatter and more 'white trash' the girls/guys get. My hometown (about an hour away) is close to the american border and could easily pass for an american city in terms of fatness. All of the girls have attitudes, dress trashy, are chubby to obese and the dudes they are with are usually trashy wearing ed hardy/affliction.

Vancouver on the other hand is way more slim, but of course the girls aren't very attractive or feminine (for the most part). You do see some fatties, but they are usually either tourists or older women.

I really don't understand this article. Shes blaming everyone for making her feel bad about being fat, how she has to go out of her way to get clothes that fit. She blames every one else but herself for her lack of self worth. All she has to do is eat less and exercise and most of her problems will go away. I cant stand people who complain about such easily solvable problems.

How much of Vancouver slenderness is driven by Asian immigrants? I was only there for a day back in 2004. It was obviously thinner than the US, but the white chicks still seemed fat by then European standards. I will admit my sample size and time there was too short to really make a fair judgement.

[hypesession]

That's disgusting.

Farewell, Vancouver, but I'm going to tell everyone about you!! wtf delusional.

Does it fall into the category of hamster logic that people should want to have sex with you regardless of how you look..

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if I lost 80 pounds and you were actually interested in me, I still wouldn’t be interested in you.

Whaaatt?

[liquiddrewl]

She thought they were FLIRTING!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH RUN HAMSTER RUN!!!!!

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“I could take them out for breakfast, lunch and dinner and I’d go broke!”

When we began to shout back to defend ourselves, they seemed genuinely shocked that we didn’t find this an acceptable form of flirting, like we were the ones in the wrong for being offended.

[Greek kamaki]

If she were living in Moscow she would not even find dogs to do her.

[SVK]

Bravo Vancouver!!! We need to import whatever Vancouverites are doing into the States. This fat acceptance BS is insane... As for her problem, solution is simple: Lose the weight finally! But oh no, she has a 'medical condition' preventing it, like 60% of Americans. Interesting that in Japan or France this condition is about 6 times less prevalent...

[dk902]

Wow that article is Female Rationalisation Hamster on a whole other level.

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Well, this is it. I’m done with being made to feel bad about my body when I know just a short drive away in any direction, I'm treated with the same respect everyone else receives.

Yes that is the symptom of a sick society that thinks it's OK and acceptable to be fat.

Being fat is not only completely unacceptable and unhealthy, it also makes your life unhappy, can't you see that you dumb bitch? Cause and effect.

Simply put, you're too fucking lazy to eat properly and exercise and you want people to respect you for it.

How about this - I choose to stay in shape, eat properly and I want [Western] women to stop being fat, masculine and entitled. Will people also respect my wishes?

Maybe I should write an article how a fat woman degraded my manhood the other day by polluting my eyesight. She just didn't think about my needs and wishes that day when she walked out the house.

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One day, very soon, I’m going to leave you, Vancouver, and it will be bittersweet. I’ll miss your mountains, your beaches, the eastside, your yoga teachers, your amazing food, your hockey and all the great friends I’ve made here.

Guess which part from the above she will miss most?

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This is my declaration: I know I’m fat, Vancouver.

So apart from endless self-pity, have you come up with any solution for it yet?

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You can feel free to stop pointing it out and punishing me for it every time you get a chance.

Guess not.

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There are many reasons someone might be fat besides eating too much and not enough exercise:

Wow really?

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medication, depression, chronic injuries, childhood abuse, or a bad card in the genetic deck.

Medication? Is the rest of your diet in check, tried eating properly recently?

Chronic injuries? Maybe you wouldn't get those if you weren't so fat.

Childhood abuse, a bad card in the genetic deck? Please spare the excuses and rationalisations. You're fucking lazy.

Honestly what sort of society thinks that an individual who is too lazy and/or unwilling to address their problems should be rewarded and celebrated for it?

[Kitsune]

We need to get Nigel on this, he could 'comfort' her.

[flyfreshandyoung]

The worst part of the article is when she describes how her and her fatty friends get pursued in Portland.

Props to Vancouver men, another stain on American "men"

[WesternCancer]

(07-03-2012 02:35 PM)beta_plus Wrote:  

How much of Vancouver slenderness is driven by Asian immigrants? I was only there for a day back in 2004. It was obviously thinner than the US, but the white chicks still seemed fat by then European standards. I will admit my sample size and time there was too short to really make a fair judgement.

Fat asian chicks are definitely far and few between, even the older/middle aged ones remain slim so I guess that has something to do with it. In terms of general slimness gay dudes probably have an effect too. The rest of the males are of the species herbius maximus or hipsters. Vancouver also has a huge feminist population, they (more often than not) are the ones who are overweight, but you hardly see them out. Levels of fatness is increasing though.

flyfreshandyoung: I bet the only dudes fatty-shaming are the bros who roll to a club 10 deep and buy every girl there drinks, I could be wrong, but from what I've seen that is the extent of game here. The rest of the dudes just get shitfaced and try to dance with the girls their friends brought there if anything at all.

[SVK]

I have and idea that could be more effective than fat shaming - the 'mistaken for pregnant' method. To be most effective you need to appear to be genuinely convinced that the girl in question is indeed pregnant.

Examples:

- Offer a seat to a fat girl on a bus. When she thanks you reply with something like "of course, I know how dangerous it could be for expecting women to be standing"
- In a store, ask about recommendation for a stretchmarks cream for your pregnant wife
- etc....

For best effect you have to seem genuinely baffled and apologize incessantly. Keeping a straight face is absolute necessity. The point is to make her believe that you genuinely mistaken her for pregnant, which would get her thinking and hopefully motivate to action.

So everybody do your civic duty and do 5 fat girl approaches today!

[Juan Antonio]

Vancouver is half Asian, so all the skinnies must make this whale hella self-conscious.

[Locke]

To be fair to her, the comments those people made to her were uncalled for and rude.

[Kafka]

Maybe this is why Canada seems to be able to afford socialized health care? I think her weight loss plan is to just wait until she looses a foot to type 2 diabetes and cant walk to the fridge!

[Kafka]

And what is it exactly that she is going to miss about Vancouver's yoga teachers?