Criticised by (non specified height, age and sexed) stranger.

[RosemarysBush]

On the back of an earlier thread! Yesterday, at the supermarket with my healthy(slim) 16year old daughter. Walking across the carpark, she was eating a biscuit 🍪. A person scowled at her and said “you should’nt be eating that, you’ll get fat. Then you’ll be running round the block to wear it off”!
He wasn’t joking. Why do people thinks it’s ok to make such comments to complete strangers? It’s like saying “Cheer up, it might never happen” !! Who knows what’s going on in someone’s life right now.

I had an age, sex non specific person shove their face in my then 3yo DD's face in Costa (slim, healthy, perfect teeth, walks miles, blah blah blah) and tell her her little cake would make her fat. At three. I was furious for hours.

Not about weight, but vaping.

I recently went with a friend to meet one of her friends from abroad. She in turn was accompanied by her XH (somewhat peculiar set -up, but not a problem). At some point I was standing in a quiet outside area, having a vape, when from behind me I heard "You should be ashamed of yourself". I wondered who he was talking to so turned around and apparently he was addressing me. I'd only met him 2 hours earlier. So I just said "Not at all actually, why should I be?". He then went off on a spiel about giving up smoking, how he'd done it, I should too etc. I waved my vape at him and said "Not smoking. Vaping" and then turned around again.

Pompous ass.

Why do people make remarks? At your dd s age I was under 7 stone and got stupid remarks like "eat a cake love " and "don't you feed her"? To my mum.
Wish I hadn't been so painfully shy (I m not now ) and just said "fuck off dickhead, I m recovering from an eating disorder ".
I m glad your ds told the twat to fuck off!

I think it's true what people say, society (especially men) feel they have an innate right to criticise and police women's bodies, whether they are 3, 16 or 50.

I do notice you did say "Heathy and slim. However. That's not really the point. Even if she was 28 stone wearing size 30 clothes doesn't mean hed have had the right yo open his big fat mush

While that is very true Awwlookatmybabyspider, mentioning it does prevent the thread being derailed by the MN orthorexics commenting "well is she overweight?" "Did he have a point?" "My teenager only eats kale salad and China seeds, what are you thinking?"