"people of size" is ridiculous and confusing

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I've heard this used on radio 4 a couple of times recently, can't help but role my eyes every time.

Obese used in a medical sense above a specific BMI (as is morbidly obese)

I CBA looking up the % though,

Reminds me of this cartoon.

If you're fat, you're fat. You put more in calories in than your body consumes, and the excess is turned into lard. We can be all PC about it just in case some of us are not able to handle the fact that we are fat and need to blame someone else, but at the end of the day, it's just more political correctness bullshit. Why must we pander to every ridiculous fuck up in our society with cotton wool and fluffy bunny politics? Next well declare them a special interest group, give them fatman badges and extra wide spaced at the supermarket, because they are disabled by their thighs rubbing together, and need closer access to supermarket doors. Wait, didn't I read somewhere steps are afoot to declare fatties disabled persons?

Why are we all so sensitive to body weight? We choose what we want to eat and drink. We choose whether to exercise of sit on our backsides. Other than stereotyping of conventional 'pretty' in the media, we are all one size of another. We are all of one degree of health or another. We can all choose how we wish to live. So why do we need to obfuscate and conceal the blatantly obvious truth that a fat person is fat?

Incidentally, in the interest of fairness in the inevitable judgement my viewpoint will bring, I don't care if people are fat or thin. I'm fat. I'm not embarrassed about it. But let's call it what it is, it's fat accumulating beneath my skin due to poor exercise and over consumption of crap.

I thought bariatric was the new word, or is that only for the very large?

Shouldn't it be "people of weight"

Or people of mass

When I saw size I thought height

Viviennemary is right. We all have a size.

As a person of size (i.e big/plus/fat/whatever) I think I find the person of size more insulting that being called fat. Fat is just fat. Person of size suggests that the person who is calling you that thinks it is something to be offended by. I am what I am. I don't need people trying to spare my feelings or make a big deal of it.

What about persons highly places on the BMI index? Or, ladies who lunch, too often? Or gentlemen who prefer blamange?

Oh no that's awful, I love radio 4 and I haven't heard it, but I hope they drop it. We have "overweight" and "obese" and they are fine for describing the issue. I have been overweight and I would have hated to be called a Person of Size - it just makes it sound like it's sooooo bad it's just unmentionable.

Plus it kind of makes it sound permanent and a feature of who you are, but your weight is just a measurement of what you weigh right now - you are not defined by it as a person. You can be overweight, just as you can be drunk or pregnant, it doesn't make you permanently that.

People of weight is no better, we all have a weight

This is ridiculous.

They are fat only no one wants to be fat so it's a bad word. But whatever word you use is going to end up a bad word as it's describing something no one want to be.

It's stupid. Also hate the POC - people of colour term. I think that's more offensive then saying someone is black or brown.

One of my antenatal scan reports said "view restricted by adiposity".

I thought that a very appropriate, honest and inoffensive way of putting it.

But whatever term becomes the PC way of referring to something awkward/unliked/divisive, within a few years it becomes awkward/unliked/divisive itself, and a new term springs up.

You can be honest without being nasty: "fatter people" rather than "fatties", for example.

TipsyMcStaggers: tell that to my white-cane-wielding friend. Her reply to something similar was "Visually impaired? Bollocks! I'm blind."

So, if you're skinny like me what am I a person of?

I'm fat .
I'm fat because i don't exercise.

I'll call myself fat before anyone else gets the opportunity though!

It's ridiculous. If you're fat, then you're fat.

I'm a very fat person. I wouldn't like to be called a person of size.

I think 'people of size' is inevitable and I'm going to use it from now on.

Incidentally OP, when you say 'role my eyes' is that some new noun to verb transition, do you mean that you are casting them in a theatrical production ?

Isn't the term "Morbidly jolly"?

an oxymoron if ever there was one!

ive never heard it, but it seems fine to me as a non offensive option. Easily understandable. No big deal

I teach MFL and when we are learning how to describe people in French the words for thin/slim/tall etc all come up. As does the word for fat. I have a powerpoint with famous peeps on it who have blonde hair, blue eyes, are tall, slim, pretty - and fat.

The kids are always bizarrely shocked by it. I don't understand it myself. When did "fat" become a banned word? They clearly think (this is 11yos btw) that they are not allowed to say someone is fat - not as in teasing, name calling etc, but purely in a descriptive sense - and even about a person they will never meet! It's madness!

Overweight seems a perfectly reasonable term if that's what's being discussed. Obese may also be appropriate. Person of size is just nonsense.

I call it vertically challenged.

Btw I'm overweight (planning to lose it) but find it jocular and not rude.