I have always considered myself skinny, and in high school and college when we bantered the insults to me were always that I was emaciated, string bean, etc. After some time I realize that my body type is not so skinny here, but pretty ideal, honestly. It’s a trip and it feels kind of good. But I still feel skinny in my own head.
Conversely, I’ve seen guys who I consider to have the “ideal” body type politely be called fat or compared to hippo, whale, etc. In my head I think wow this brother is ripped wish I could get those kind of gains, but in Japan they’re fat?
There’s a chance this is something well known and you’re rolling your eyes at me in which case I’m sorry! But it’s new to me
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Yeah. A lot of it just has to do with people of Asian descent mostly being smaller anyways, but a lot of it is pretty toxic. I’m 169cm and 58kg and get told I should lose 5-10kg pretty often. Of course a lot of the popular Instagram girls or socialites get a ton of plastic surgery and take pills to get that sub 18 bmi…I know that. Doesn’t stop me from feeling bad about myself every now and then. Best to just recognize that, as long as you’re healthy and not overweight, you just have a different body type from the norm and move on.