Yes overweight people are treated different

[snaffle]

Isnt it sad how overweight people are treated?

I have noticed that when I was 50 pounds overweight... I could go to town with my hair done up... wear my best clothes... and not be treated as well as

being slender... wearing dirty jeans... work ariats with questionable material on them... a work jacket with .. um.... looks like dirt on it... and hair messy.

anyone else notice?

now that the weight is going up again... hmmmm...

ok ok.. I gotta start eating healthy again!

[ride4fun]

There is a lot of truth in that snaffle, but there is a component of self view too. If someone projects self-confidence and poise with extra weight they're treated better then someone who feels self-consciously overweight.

[Chrisnstar]

which model was it that did that experiement
got dressed up in fat suit
and noticed how people treated her.

[MJ]

I think it was Tyra and yes she definitely was treated different.

[Sheryl]

Fat people are treated differently, but I really think that some of it is what we project to others too. When I gained some weight during college, I felt like scum and literally would not look a store clerk in the eye. I couldn't stand dealing with what I perceived to be people looking at my fat. I actually wasn't THAT fat, maybe 30 pounds overweight, but I sure projected how uncomfortable I was in my own skin. As a much older adult, at that same weight, I felt like I looked good and got plenty of positive attention. Of course, over the years, our standards changed too. We expect people to be a bit bigger these days.

[greymoya]

Dr Phil's son did that too. he went to a mall and shopped in a few stores and filmed the people's interaction with him with a hidden camera. Then he got dressed in a fat suit and went to the exact same stores and bought the exact same items. The exact same people who flirted and fluttered around him when he was handsome, avoided looking at him or talking to him when he was in the fat suit. He bought something in Godiva both times, and the first time the salespeople were all really nice, but as a fat man they snickered when he left and made a comment that he didn't need any more chocolate. In another store, a salesgirl was flirting with him and he asked if she had a boyfriend and she said no, but when he went there in the fat suit he asked if she was dating anyone and she said she was married!

I once saw a guy I was close friends with in high school in a college building, I was maybe 25 pounds heavier than I'd been in high school. We used to talk and hang out all the time and he was always trying to get me to go out with him. When I saw him at the college, only a little heavier, he barely stopped to speak to me but I thought he was busy. I gave him my number and told him to call me and we'd get together, he never called. I saw him around campus a few more times and he always avoided looking at me and acted like he didn't see me, but I had seen him look right at me. After that I lost 45 pounds and the last time I saw him I was a size 4. He asked me out. I said no with a few choice words mixed in.

Yes, heavier people definitely get treated differently.