Asian American Attitudes toward Weight | Asian American Poll

AA ATTITUDE TOWARD WEIGHT
(Updated Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:06:54 PM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

Assuming you are an Asian American, how important is weight in your assessment of a person's attractiveness?
It's a key element of attractiveness. | 57%
It's one of many factors I consider. | 39%
It's less important than other personal qualities. | 2%
I don't care about a person's weight. | 2%

Assuming you are an Asian American, which best matches your feelings toward your own weight?
I'd like to be 20 pounds lighter. | 20%
I'd like to be 10 pounds lighter. | 35%
I'm happy with my weight. | 28%
I'd like to be heavier. | 17%

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Asian Dominatrix,

5'4 1/2" and 98 lbs is too thin. I think you should put your bra top and mini skirt back on if you weigh 15 pounds more now. I like women with a little bit of meat, not the bilimic look.
FOP Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 18:23:03 (PST)

I was accepting my new size until I saw all these angry replies trying to beat down asian dominatrix. I'm going back on my diet, and going to lose weight again. You all sound waaaaaay too angry.
fat girl Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 16:42:37 (PST)

not fat, not thin, just right

Yes, I admit I'm guilty of holding my personal preferences as the ideal, which however also happens to be the ideal figure featured in fashion magazines at the moment.

But let me ask you too, who are you to say "Most men prefer women like this [muscles and curves] over stick figures?" You then say that "all my guy friends say this." Conjecturally speaking, has it ever occurred to you that maybe your guy friends are exceptions or perhaps a minority? Or that maybe, it all depends on locale: for instance, Midwesterners and Southerners tend to prefer more flesh, while East and West coasters prefer leanness?

Don't get all over yourself on the issue of "ideal" figures. In the end, we're going to have ideals, whether or not they conform with society's ideals (which are always changing, atho' thin just happens to be in right now). For instance, when I was 17, I loved being 5'4 1/2" and 98 lbs. (with a super metabolism to boot)--even tho' it was far from the ideal of the mesomorphic and muscly Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell look which were still very much in at that time. (And yes, I know there are other attractive women who are not stick thin.) I was also considered "too skinny" by many of my slim friends--who, oddly enough, were busy dieting and taking pills while telling me I was too thin!?! I couldn't have cared less. I loved the way I looked in pictures: I looked much taller than I actually was, with long lanky arms and legs, and I enjoyed being told that I could get away with anything I wore.

Twelve years later, I'm half an inch taller but weigh 15 pounds more. Damn! no more of the teensy tops and shorts. No more going braless. But absolutely ideal or not, I'm not going to sweat it.

Let's face it, we need to acknowledge that we have different ideals and that we can't always reach or retain our or society's absolutely ideal figure. No big deal. Because there are more important things in life than carping over other people's notions of ideal figures or even worrying needlessly about conforming to our own. There are weightier issues in life than weight.

Asian Dominatrix Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 12:51:10 (PST)

hehehe I LOVE my Asian metabolism....hehe yesterday I ate two pizzas and two cheesecakes and I didnt gain a pound I actually lost one, hehe I eat so much and I dont gain a pound...hehe my friend is anorexic and I am still the same weight as her sometimes even skinnier hehe...I love being Asian!
Christy
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Okay Christy, first of all you should be helping your anorexic friend get some help. Second of all I dont think you're much of a friend if you laugh in her face about how you can eat like a pig and still be thinner than her. Third of all I hope it catches up with you one day and you are a huge cow!
me Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 12:47:58 (PST)

hey asian dominatrix:
who are you to say that ecotomorphic is the ideal figure? I suppose it's ideal just because that's what you are? There are plenty of beautiful people of all races that are not stick thin, that have muscles and curves. Most men prefer women like this over stick figures, all my guy friends say this. you sound like one stuck-up little b&&ch.
not fat, not thin, just right Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 12:40:40 (PST)

AFs are obsessed with how much they weigh for sure. I used to be like that too.
I was born as a chubby baby, grew up not so skinny though nobody said I was fat. Reaching adolescece, I started gaining more. Coming to the US let me gain extra. So I know how the girls who don't think they are skinny enough feel.
Its not about weight but proportion, how balanced your body is, I realized!
I worked out to lose the fat where had to be shaped up. I was once about 145 but worked out and now I am 125. I guess a lot of people still consider this weight as too heavy to be an asian but f*** that!
Because I know I am well-balanced now and my boy is happy with my body.

One thing I have to keep in my mind is that weight can be controlled. and what people dislike about overweighted people is that they think those people can't control themselves.
If you are the overweighted side, show others you can control yourself, without doing so, everything you say is excuses.
JF in Boston Monday, March 18, 2002 at 14:06:56 (PST)

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