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Topic	No matter how much extra weight you have. YOU ARE NOT FAT.
Daremo 04/15/24 5:19:13 PM #148:	LightningThief posted... You can definitely control what you hear in a sense of twisting someone's words to be something that it isn't. Essentially those ignoring context to act like someone was attacked. The examples you gave are great examples to that. Taking something as a personal attack =/= it actually was. As there are definitely those who make it their mission to ignore context be a victim no matter what, or find victims no matter what to deflect. Context be damned. Speaking of context, it needs to be clarified again that no one is advocating of just walking up to people and calling them fat for no reason. You've kind of gone around my point there. What is the benefit in saying, "You are fat and unhealthy.", over "You have an excess of fat, and that's unhealthy."? --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary <cite>Daremo posted [p:979925395] in No matter ... [t:80746422]...</cite> <quote>LightningThief posted... </cite><quote>You can definitely control what you hear in a sense of twisting someone's words to be something that it isn't. Essentially those ignoring context to act like someone was attacked.The examples you gave are great examples to that. Taking something as a personal attack =/= it actually was. As there are definitely those who make it their mission to ignore context be a victim no matter what, or find victims no matter what to deflect. Context be damned.Speaking of context, it needs to be clarified again that no one is advocating of just walking up to people and calling them fat for no reason.</quote>You've kind of gone around my point there.What is the benefit in saying, "You are fat and unhealthy.", over "You have an excess of fat, and that's unhealthy."? --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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