Pulling it off

That's actually a pretty good comeback tho....lol

The sort of comeback so good you think of it later on and write a comic, wishing you'd said it at the time
- I highly doubt the situation happened. Their insecurity manifested it and it was output into something that made them feel excused. In reality, no one outside of their own mind has thought or said this to them. At least not since junior school.
  Just a bunch...
- L'esprit de l'escalier
- Tru
But at the end of the day, it's not true and they're still obese
- Buddy.... at the end of the day it's a fucking cartoon calm down

Man, I thought Lemmy was supposed to be better than Reddit. These comments are proving me wrong.

- I'm one of them. Still, was hoping the hate would be left behind.
Most of the negative comments are from Lemmy.world users, which is the instance that recieves the bulk of the Reddit crowd before the users find a more fitting instance.
Lemmy.world tends to attract people from Reddit that are too ideological to stay, but want the same thing as Reddit without the enshittification, so they go to the largest generalist instance first. Over time, some leave for more specialized instances, like Beehaw, Lemmy.ml, programming.dev, or blahaj.zone, so that leaves .world usually with newer accounts, or people who just want Reddit 2 before it went to shit.
Not saying everyone from .world is bad, of course not, but what drives users to .world over more niche instances is usually coming straight from Reddit.
- I joined Lemmy.ml because it looked like the largest generalist instance plus apparently ran by Lemmy developers. Here you list it as a specialist one. Well, I couldn't have known at the time. :D
- Wait I am in this comment I left reddit and joined world then wanted to switch to a different one so just joined .ee arbitrarily. Is there a short reference somewhere of how these are all different from each other?
- Ngl I just liked the name And I'm only staying out of laziness
- I'm baaad booooiiii
Yeah it’s a bummer. When I left twitter for mastodon there was a full 180° from the attitudes people had. Unfortunately it seems that the outrage/negativity algorithm has trained Redditors too well to break those bad habits.
- It's usually the ones coming straight from Reddit into Lemmy.world, if you go to a less generalist instance it's usually a lot better.
  .world is just Reddit 2, in terms of culture.
I just don't find obese women attractive, a little 胖乎乎的婴儿肥 is one thing, but not a serious health condition.
- We all have our own attractions, that's fine. However, people don't have to meet our standards of beauty to exist and take part in society.

This isn't cringe at all.. 🙄

Something about this feels like it's ten years old. It was a different time.
It would maybe pass as not cringe if not for the last panel
- It's to show playfulness and that the artist doesn't feel THAT strongly, imagine how cold the comic would be without it.
  And then consider that women have been raised to be polite and apologetic to the point it is even a habit for most of us. I guess that's why I can't really see it as cringe even if I try.
- i dunno, i quite like the last panel

Dont fight girls, I'll pull it off both of you

A man of culture

I've been in so many wholesome communities, I initially thought the first panel was a thinly veiled pickup line.

Same, thought it might go in a different direction
Something about that just feels… kinda great, definitely sounds like something one should strive for.

I feel like these clothes are the prefect match for the body type on the right. There are many clothes that might not fit the person the the right (also many wouldn't fit the person on the left), but the ones in the comics are not these clothes.

I thought the snowflakes stayed on reddit, but apparently me saying "Copium in comic" is too offensive for moderators.
¯(ツ)_/¯
She physically cannot pull it off due to size
- The boyfriend works in healthcare and it's just his job. Bless him.

"Body type"? Is obesity a body type?

"body type" has always been a general term to express the entire shape, size and proportions of a person, including excess weight and obesity.
When I was obese I couldn't pull off crop tops because of my body size, it was incredibly unflattering, and now that I'm a healthy weight I still can't pull off crop tops because of my body proportions, I have a short torso.
Body type encompasses both scenarios, so it's often thought of as a polite way to tell someone something is unflattering without singling out specific "flaws" in their body.
- Until its only used for this because our society sucks and just becomes a euphemism, because we can't have nice things.
- That makes a bit more sense. I was initially reminded of the various pseudo-scientific attempts to classify variations in human body shapes, which usually don't factor in great variations in body fat content. The way it's used in the image made me think this was an attempt to frame an unhealthy lifestyle as something inherent that can't be changed.
Even if I were to agree with this rather obvious trolling attempt.
...yes?
"Type" is a word used to categorize things by shared characteristics, in this context, characteristics shared by the human body?
- No, like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_type
  Even if I were to agree with this rather obvious trolling attempt.
  Peak reddit conversation.
It's an illness.

Hey mods... Ever heard of free speech? People can have opinions... Let people decide by upvotes and down votes. Why the unnecessary censoring?

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the censored comments are probably literal death threats against fat people or anyone who would dare support them 😬
What did I miss?

The girl on the right is fucking hot. The comic is for girls that do not look like her but think they do 😂

I think all women are beautiful but if you can't live up to these strict standards, it's not the end of the world.

Obese moment

I would have been that boyfriend. I always saw women like the right as more attractive and sexual than women like the left. It would infuriate a couple of my friends because I was a pretty boy who had the attention of women they found more appropriate, but I could never get them to understand that those women were like background extras to me in dating terms. It's not even something I willfully do, it just feels natural and correct to want a bbw vixen.

Have we all forgotten about the Venus of Willendorf?
Men have always liked em thicc
- I for sure don't

Can any ladies comment, are girls ever actually this bitchy to each other? This has to be a bit of hyperbole right?

Not a woman, but a some teenager girls I met in high school were absolutely vicious.
Usually, they say it, but not directly to you. The attacking woman will tell another person in the group, and that person will usually tell the target woman what was said by the first woman just "because I thought you should know." Very, very rarely is it said directly.
I also have seen a lot of people pull the move of talking too loud about things they hate about the target woman on purpose so that the target woman hears it, but can't really confont the attacking woman because she "should mind her own business."
Not a chick but when booze is involved it can get rough lol
- ooh yeah I am a woman and thankfully I don't drink alcohol ever, and if I did I could see how my mouth would get very ascerbic. I have so many bitter, cutting, scathing opinions about people, and I learn to keep them to myself, but if I ever had alcohol, I'm pretty sure I would let it all go and probably would have been murdered in a bar a long time ago
From what I hear it's usually more about back-handed compliments than outright insults, like "wow, you must have a lot of confidence in yourself to wear that, go you!"

That comeback makes the right one 500 times more attractive js

A sharp wit is more attractive than any physical feature.
Why all those downvotes? What did I miss?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say.

Takes all kinds.

Medically obese moment

Fat girls do more stuff

This is one hell of a joke, love it.

If you have a comeback this weak in the comic YOU drew, I don't want to imagine the amount of cringe your friends felt around you

that comic is fatphobic. you're making people believe that fat folx are cringe

and cute
Like yo momma.
- Gottem
More like phat
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phat
You can't say that in Tumblr 2!
Let me guess, as an average lemmy user the chances are pretty high you are a white male in early adulthood, probably living off a very concerning diet but not gaining weight because of some genetical inability to build up fat.
Like, thats me, but I am aware of it. People can get fat if they eat as much as I do, which is not even much. Get a hold of your privileges dude.
- People can get fat if they eat as much as I do
  Then its up to those people to fucking get out of their asses and exercise. It's one thing to be fat because of a health issue like hypothyroidism, and a whole different thing to choose being fat. In either case, you can't really demand people to think an unhealthy, droopy and blobby body is beautiful, all you can ask is for people to not be rude about it.
  Here's a very apt comparison: I suffer from hyperhidrosis, a condition which makes me sweat 100% of the time regarless of temperature. Which do you think more reasonable: that I wear deodorant, refresh myself and shower often; or that I demand people to live with and enjoy my body odour?
- I'm actually a 31 year old female living together with my bf and cat. I'm going to the gym about 2 to 3 times a week since a few months. My bmi at this moment is 24.1 which is still quite high but I'm getting there.
  All I did was say fat. If that offended you, go to the gym.
- No, I'm getting fat. Slowly, and not very, but I need to start running again. Geneticals be damned.
- Hahahaha, I love how the OP just smacked your little made up anecdote down