Opportunity or microaggression

I actually feel hurt when people don’t acknowledge that I’ve lost weight. It makes me think, didn’t they notice how I looked before versus now? Losing weight is really hard to do, so I appreciate it when people say something about it.

I recently have lost a lot of weight. I went to see my D last weekend, and the last time I saw her and her BF was the weekend before I decided that enough was enough.

Neither of them said a word about it, and it did bother me. I would never take a hostile point of view towards someone who noticed I’d lost weight. I mean, it’s true that I was heavier before. And if by losing all that weight, I now look “great,” well I’m happy about that. If I didn’t look “great” before, well, that’s in the past and good riddance, I say.

Now if I can just keep it off…

I got annoyed when people noticed I gained weight and commented on it. Not anyone in my immediate family. But I politely state, I know I need to lose some weight but winter is hard because I like to eat and my body likes to store fat. But I was thinking why was it her business, it’s my weight, my business. Somebody at work who likes to exercise.

Thats a terribly rude thing for someone to say, DrGoogle. You should pick a sarcastic Miss Manners answer, “oh have I gained weight? How kind of you to bring that to my attention. Here I was imagining that I was always this marvelously zaftig”.

If someone commented on my weight, I would say, " I can either look good naked, or with clothes, I chose to look good naked" :wink:

I didn’t have the heart to tell her when she lost a lot of weight, she looks much older than when she did have more weight because she already had a tough life. I’m fat and happy. I won’t trade that.

I feel microvictimized when my coworkers don’t notice I just got a haircut.

Maybe they didn’t like your haircut. In which case, making note of it would actually be the microagression.

:wink:

How do think persons of baldness feel when you talk about your haircut?

^^^Lol. “Persons of baldness.” :smiley:

The follicularly challenged.
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EK - post 77 - uh, the Chinese. Who else did you think? And I don’t get your post 84. How could you choose “between” those things? Efforts you do to look better in clothes translate to looking better without clothes and vice versa.

At an event yesterday, the program read - All those able, please stand (during a certain part of the program). I thought that was a bit silly - like “All please stand” didn’t also imply “but obviously if you have a physical disability such that you can’t, then of course remain seated.” What, would someone confined to a wheelchair be offended if it just said “please stand”, thinking that everyone around them expected some miracle cure at the moment? It struck me as a little PC run amok.