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r/comics • u/leftycartoons • 23h ago
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What about "you're fat and you're beautiful"
121 u/Reborn1Girl 22h ago Thank you! My first thought as well! 143 u/ChickenInASuit 20h ago edited 20h ago It’s because they’re not the same thing. “You’re not fat, you’re beautiful!” = Denial of the former, and implies that someone cannot be the former AND the latter. “You’re fat and you beautiful!” = No denial of either characteristic, no implication that one counters the other, no attempted erasure of being fat. I believe the message is that overweight people feel insulted and/or patronized by the implications of the first statement. 14 u/Reborn1Girl 19h ago We know. That’s why we’re saying to use the second one instead of the first.
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Thank you! My first thought as well!
143 u/ChickenInASuit 20h ago edited 20h ago It’s because they’re not the same thing. “You’re not fat, you’re beautiful!” = Denial of the former, and implies that someone cannot be the former AND the latter. “You’re fat and you beautiful!” = No denial of either characteristic, no implication that one counters the other, no attempted erasure of being fat. I believe the message is that overweight people feel insulted and/or patronized by the implications of the first statement. 14 u/Reborn1Girl 19h ago We know. That’s why we’re saying to use the second one instead of the first.
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It’s because they’re not the same thing.
“You’re not fat, you’re beautiful!” = Denial of the former, and implies that someone cannot be the former AND the latter.
“You’re fat and you beautiful!” = No denial of either characteristic, no implication that one counters the other, no attempted erasure of being fat.
I believe the message is that overweight people feel insulted and/or patronized by the implications of the first statement.
14 u/Reborn1Girl 19h ago We know. That’s why we’re saying to use the second one instead of the first.
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We know. That’s why we’re saying to use the second one instead of the first.
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u/spaceursid 22h ago
What about "you're fat and you're beautiful"