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Post by finding on Mar 14, 2008 14:27:22 GMT -5
My father called to see how much my daughter weighs so he can find the right saddle so she can ride this week. Granted she is only 12, but she is 5'3" and weighs 105, by no means is the child overweight, but he had a total hissy that she weighs over 100 pounds at her age. It is men like him and their fucked up attitudes that give women a poor body image. The world isn't full of petite little brunettes you asshole.
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Post by murdock on Mar 14, 2008 14:29:49 GMT -5
My father called to see how much my daughter weighs so he can find the right saddle so she can ride this week. Granted she is only 12, but she is 5'3" and weighs 105, by no means is the child overweight, but he had a total hissy that she weighs over 100 pounds at her age. It is men like him and their fucked up attitudes that give women a poor body image. The world isn't full of petite little brunettes you asshole. well.... considering that your father is from the generation that expected to have the wife waiting at the door with a cocktail and dinner on the table when he came... I am not surprised.
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Post by finding on Mar 14, 2008 14:33:21 GMT -5
My father called to see how much my daughter weighs so he can find the right saddle so she can ride this week. Granted she is only 12, but she is 5'3" and weighs 105, by no means is the child overweight, but he had a total hissy that she weighs over 100 pounds at her age. It is men like him and their fucked up attitudes that give women a poor body image. The world isn't full of petite little brunettes you asshole. well.... considering that your father is from the generation that expected to have the wife waiting at the door with a cocktail and dinner on the table when he came... I am not surprised. He had the fucking nerve to tell me that she needs to go on a diet.
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Post by sheyd on Mar 14, 2008 14:37:13 GMT -5
My 11 year old is that weight - and NOT that height. (She is actually 4'10 now I think). Your daughter sounds QUITE thin enough! He IS a total jerk. Lucky he said it to you, not her!
Shey
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Post by finding on Mar 14, 2008 14:47:05 GMT -5
My 11 year old is that weight - and NOT that height. (She is actually 4'10 now I think). Your daughter sounds QUITE thin enough! He IS a total jerk. Lucky he said it to you, not her! Shey She is thin with a dancer's build thanks to many years of ballet. He just doesn't get it we are not all built like what he prefers. I shouldn't expect any better from a man who tried to push me into putting her into modeling when she was younger. A woman in his world is only to be known for how she looks and not the head on her shoulders. He threw a fit a few weeks ago when she told him she wanted to go into mechanical engineering.
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Post by murdock on Mar 14, 2008 14:56:35 GMT -5
well.... considering that your father is from the generation that expected to have the wife waiting at the door with a cocktail and dinner on the table when he came... I am not surprised. He had the fucking nerve to tell me that she needs to go on a diet. numerous 4 letter words comming to mind at this very second
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Post by sheyd on Mar 14, 2008 15:07:00 GMT -5
Thank God you are the one raising her! Harry is taking Mech Engineering - cool field! You keep encouraging her to be her FULL self!
Shey
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Post by pennylane on Mar 14, 2008 16:21:41 GMT -5
Try to not let it get to you. Ignorance is the ultimate disability in this world.
Hopefully he never makes such remarks to her or in front of her.
Young girls take comments like that serious. Eating disorders are common among young girls and it's comments like that - that provoke it. My daughter is tall for her age and a perfect weight. During her stay with me about a year ago, she was never hungry. She wouldn't eat. I finally got out of her that one of her cousins told her she was chuncky and getting fat. I was PISSED. She was only 8 years old at the time and it took months of me telling her over and over that she was no where near being chunky or overweight.
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Post by murdock on Mar 14, 2008 18:35:22 GMT -5
Women should be encouraged to love their bodies. My daughter started with the "I'm fat crap" when she was 7. I told her that she can't look at her body and compare it to airbrushed women who survive on a tic-tac and 2 saltines every day. Show me any woman... and I will find 10 things attractive about her... even if she is "fat".
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