Fat and Proud or Just Plain Offensive?

I came across this website Fat Guy Shirts and I didn't know what to think. I know there is a whole group of obesity supporters, and I guess they'd appeal to these sayings. I didn't know whether to be offended, or proud that people accept their size..

What are your thoughts?

Some Tshirts say things like:

Fat people are harder to kidnap

Winning the fight against anorexica

Kenya: You wont find a fatguy there.

I dare you to picture me naked

Walking Whale: It's my indian name

Skinny Women Suck

Fat people are smarter

... The list goes on and on! Would you find someone wearing one of these shirts offensive? Or glad they are proud? I bet if I wore one of these, people would slap me silly.

I don't see how its very much different than all the shirts and pants with "Skinny bitch" across the boobs and butt. Skinny means underweight which is also unhealthy, and yet these people are "proud" and it could be offensive to some.

I don't think it's offensive, just  stupid.

The "buffet molester" shirt is kind of funny though...

I kinda like the walking whale one... made me giggle.  I wouldn't be offended, but I might be sad.  I generally want people to be healthy

Just as long as they leave their shirts on and don't show me their beer bellies and mounds of fat I don't care.

I had to laugh only because my father has a bumper sticker on his side window of his truck of the saying "Fat People Are Harder to Kidnap."

Oh..and the anorexia one..I saw one similar at Spencers a few years back..oddly enough I had just gotten out of the ED hospital for about half of a month and my family and I went to the mall and that shirt was there and my dad was like "Here, Iz...this is your t-shirt." I looked and it said "I BEAT ANOREXIA," of course it was a joke thing..but in my case it was true. Haha.

P.S. I looked at the shirts and most were humorous, but this one had me def. laughing... 

 http://www.zazzle.com/pirate_booty_shirt-2351 98357297391813

personally, i don't like clothes that make any kind of declaration (as i sit here in my uni hoody - oops!).  but i don't find those offensive.  i think it's healthy to be able to laugh at ourselves, and if that means wearing fat-and-proud tee-shirts, cool.  it's better than being in denial.

I think they are funny. If an overweight person wants to pick fun at themselves, more power to them.

I like how one of them has a typo that nobody caught before they printed the shirts:

"I'm hungry and your in my way"

lol

sure some are funny but I think they're dumb, and I probably wouldn't think too highly of a fat person wearing one...kind of like the fat kid at school that would go along with the jokes so they fit in.

I find it all kinda sad. I have always felt that people who continually had to say that they were happy being fat,

really weren't.

I like tees that say something be it funny, anti-this, pro-that or just plain stupid, it's on someone elses' body so I don't care too much.

Just make sure you don't wear your Obama or McCain shirt when you go to vote 

I don't find if offensive - I think they're pretty funny.

Also, I don't think that just because someone is wearing one of those shirts makes them a 'fat-and-pround' type of person.. I think they're just having a sense of humor about their weight.

Original Post by dove2424:

I kinda like the walking whale one... made me giggle.  I wouldn't be offended, but I might be sad.  I generally want people to be healthy

 

Me too. I laughed out loud at that one. Hee hee hee

I guess it would depend on who was wearing it. I think they're really funny, and if someone like me, a chubby person in the overweight category, wore one, I'd probably just giggle or not even pay attention. If someone who's morbidly obese wore it, I might be upset. Because I think it's awful for a person to be like, "Oh, I don't care if I'm 300 pounds." I'm "fat", but healthy. I can't laugh when someone is unhealthy, though. :C

Think they are so ashamed of their weight that they have no other outlet but to make people think that they are OK with it. It's a shame. I'll admit that I am very over weight but I'm not going to make myself look extremely ignorant by actually buying and wearing one of these shirts.

Believe me. Deep down, the people that buy these shirts don't want to be FAT. They just don't know what else to do or how to start making changes. And when you are so over weight sometimes looking at the all work that goes into getting healthy it's over whelming. So they choose to do nothing. It's very sad. Some of us are there, or have been there.

Geez people, am I the only one that just thinks it's OK to have a sense of humor about this stuff?

Sure, it's better to be healthy and at a healthy weight, but if you aren't or are still working on it, it's OK to laugh about it, too. Maybe it is a way to cope, but hey, it's better than being depressed about it. I make jokes about my fat sometimes, not because I'm happy being overweight but because I'd rather laugh in the face of it than cry about it. I'm working on it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't feel good to joke around sometimes.

People will be offended over anything, anytime, anywhere. No sense worrying about it. Live your life and be happy being you, "Fat person" T-shirt and all.

Funny that you wrote about these shirts.  My husband has an "Old Guys Rule" bumper sticker that says "the older I get, the better I was".  I guess you could make some tasteless remark about anyone, too tall, too short, too skinny, too fat, etc.  These types of shirts are definitely not PC, but you can't really choose clothing for someone else (unless you have a teenage daughter of course).

I think if you hate your weight and are embarrassed by it, sometimes the easiest way to deal with it is with humour... it makes some people feel better if they're the first one to crack a joke, that way they do it before someone else can make fun of them. It's a defense mechanism.

I'm with Fatty.   

uhmm to me I would lump these types of shirts in with the whole "Cutie","Hottie","Sexy Girl" t-shirts =LAME. I really don't like any slogan t-shirts.... there have been a rare few, but normally no way.

( a bit off topic, but ever notice that most of the gals who wear the "cutie", " hottie" etc shirts are usually not at all as described by their shirt.)