Dear everyone,

Stop commenting on women’s bodies!

Kindly fuck off,
Women

So I work with the public at an amusement park and I've dealt face to face and on the phone with thousands of people.
Last night, a fellow worker came to me and said several girls were commenting on how pretty I was. It was a nice compliment. My head wasn't turned or anything. I simply replied, "awww, that was nice!" and continued with my day.
A few hours later, a child I was helping looked at me and said, "you look really old".....I paused, a little taken aback at her candor and replied, laughing, "well you look very young!" And I laughed that one off too.
Bottom line, don't take yourself too seriously.

I think commenting on other people's looks is a bit over the line , especially to strangers. Not their business.

Sounds like sour grapes. You're in no way "too" skinny, like a person with an eating disorder or something. There are plenty of people who would kill to be able to maintain your slender look -- but apparently not many willing to admit it. I say, enjoy your body and let them eat their hearts out.

My mother oscillated between pleasingly plump and obese throughout her life and I never judged her for it or particularly even registered it; that's how I grew up. This seems to have extended itself to "skinny" people also. I don't get hung up on the body; it's just packaging. I'm interested in that chunk of meat in between the two ears. Sure, someone who is a walking skeleton on the one hand or who is so big you can't get your arms around them would be a practical problem, but those people usually have other disqualifying problems anyway.

As for myself, I had an average frame, gradually blimped up into obese territory, and have hovered about 15 to 20 pounds over my ideal weight now for a couple of decades. I never liked how people treated me subtly different when I was heavy, any more than you like how they treat you. In fact my anger at realizing how much BETTER they treated me after I got close to normal weight, provided the motivation to keep myself that way. It also taught me not to trust the genuineness or depth of most people's praise.

The random guy who is sharpening your scissors had a comment about your body? Totally inappropriate!

get rid of your egos and none of it will matter. Leggo your ego.

No, it’s not ok. People think it’s ok because fat =bad and thin = good. But It’s not ok to comment on another person’s body ever.

I play it safe and refrain from commenting on a person’s appearance, unless I’m pretty certain my comment will be viewed as a compliment.

It's not appropriate to say it about anyone's size. If anyone says something to me, I look at them right in the eye and say, "I don't appreciate comments like that. It's not your place to say that."

In tribute to you it appears you have changed very little over the years. You look nice and also healthy.

Neither is appropriate but sometimes I really wish when they're blocking the aisle at a grocery store, department store, gas station or wherever that I can ask them to get there fat f** asses out of the way.

You're very fortunate. I used to be too thin (not manly enough) and now I'm overweight (not manly enough). One thing I've never been is: sexy.

I think you're stunning, and I think you know it.

If your body has not changed much in four decades or more, you're lucky, as am I. Appetite matches metabolism, which seems as much dumb luck as anything else. Not everyone understands that.

I lived with an anerexic / bulimic/ alcholic in my early 20s She was a model. She had also been raped. All of her problems stemmed from the rape. One thing I learned it's no one business but that person. you don't know the back story. People never help with these types of comments ever. In variably, I have gotten the question, do I look fat? I replied it's no ones business but yours... if your happy that's good....

My daughters have inherited me ..and my dad’s ‘frame.’ Much like yours … and they long ago became sick & tired of hearing ‘the same.’ One wrote a college paper on ‘healthy shaming,’ as opposed to the fat stuff that get’s it’s own music videos..

Had a tall thin girl in HS become the hit of our reunion ..a decade ago. The morbid obesity of our returning girls was ..hideous. Tried not to stare at the time, but when sent the class photo …wow.

You’re just right - healthy! Pride myself on the same, daughters too. We’ll live forever

To some... The "You're too thin" remark might be considered a compliment as it is the opposite of "You're fat!" I have seen this supposition before.

You aren't too thin... You are what I would consider to be "lithe." Now if that ain't a compliment, I don't know what is.

You look better at 65 than most women do at 35!

how is your weight anyone's business anyway? if he's not your a doctor or a loved one concerned for your health, it's none of his business.

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you look a stunningly cute babe at 24 and after 40 years - plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

I don't know if I buy into the ectomorph/endomorph/mesomorph scale.... I used to think I was ectomorph then some lifestyle change caused weight gain... I wonder if you were unable to hike if you'd have a different body type as well? >.>

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You look great!

Don't know what his problem was you are great

Lean is good. Lean and fit is better. Lean and fit and smart is best. You seem to be 3-for-3.

This past summer I met a woman at a party. She was uncommonly fit, lean, muscled, tan. As a conversation starter, I asked her "What kind of athlete are you?" She took it as a compliment. Turns out she is a bicyclist and hard-core, serious rock climber.

Rude. Who asked for his opinion on something so personal? Has he not heard of the maxim "if you can't say something nice, say nothing"? Me, I think you look fantastic, I really do and I wouldn't normally say that but for you seeming defensive about your weight.

Odd, I don't hear women saying similar things about men very often.