I loved the movie, but in my high school this doesn't happen. i'm one of the "jocks" and my best friend is one of the "fat kids". There aren't that many overweight kids out of the 1800 in my school, but they fit in just fine, and have as many friends as the rest of us. Maybe my town is just more tolerant? Does this happen in your schools?
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I suppose looking at one of the other 8 threads dedicated to whether or not this movie was accurate wasn't good enough?
This movie was based on a true story...so it clearly happened at least to one person, didn't it?
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there aren't a whole lot of people who are over-weight in my school, but i'm one of them, there's only a hand full, but it does happen and when it does, it hurts a lot. i have gotten called road block, elephant, rhino, and when i have walked by someone they yelled EARTHQUAKE!!!! people say just ignore them, they're not worth it, yeah they aren't worth it, but it's damn hard to ignore them. it's there everyday it never gets easier, and people wonder why there are school shootings, it's because people fat or not get made fun of and they just get pushed too far and they just want the people who make fun of them to shut the hell up. i just know that one day that those who made fun of me, will be working as janitors in my office, and working at McDonalds saying, "Would you like fries with that?" so yes it does happen, and it's a shame because me and all the other over weight people i know have really big hearts of gold that wouldn't hurt a fly. i'm lucky in some aspects because i have friends who love me for what's inside and not what's on the outside. they don't see a fat guy walking down the hall, they see a sweet person who just wants people to like him.
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I agree with you for the most part. I am an overweight teenager, soon to be 18 in 5 days. And honestly I never get made fun of to my face, but I know as soon as I walk away they are talking about me. The people who say the dumb stuff they do, are just that, dumb people. But I also came to the realization that part of the reason that it hurt so much is because I agreed with it. So finally I decided to lose some weight, and so far I have lost 24 lbs. I still have about 50 to go, and I'm REALLY excited to get to my goal.
Have you ever tried losing weight? (That was meant in a non insulting manner)
I'm sorry. I can't really relate becuase i've never been fat, but one of my friends is, and everyone else is trying to get me to make fun of her also. I never did, but It hurt me to see them tease my friend.
What I'm trying to say is don't listen to them. I know its hard to ignore them but if you lets them know it bugs you, then they will get bored and stop.
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I'm glad that you feel hurt on behalf of your friend when people make fun of her and when they try to get you to join.
Where you are wrong is telling everyone to ignore it. You need to treat it as if someone told a racist or a gay bashing joke. Tell them that it is not funny and unacceptable. If they continue you will not be their friend anymore.
yeah, your right. I guess its wrong to just ignore it.
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well ure lucky that u go 2 da skool that u go 2 zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedc cause im a sophomore in highskool and the fat kids do get mistreated in our skool nobody sits next 2 them, talks 2 them, and the list goes on. even on the bathroom walls, there r cruel people who rite in the bathroom stall, how much they think a certain person weighs. its cruel and i cant even imagine what these people r thinking when they read this.
I'm in college right now, but yes, stuff like that does happen. It drives people to do stupid things, like suicide or shootings, but for me it just landed me in a psychologist's office every other week. My thing is genetic; I've got 3 generations of people in my family who were or are diabetic and seriously overweight. I'm doing what I have to in order to change it, and the best thing that non-overweight people could've done for me in high school was to support me and not hold my depression and anger against me. If you're not that lucky (I would be among you), college isn't that far away. No one knows you there, and people can talk to you and be your friend for who you are now, not who they think you are or who you used to be.
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I went to a pretty chill high school. It was small, almost everyone knew everyone in their class. I had a few good friends who were overweight (im not) and I can not recall them being made fun of. We wern't "popular" (that didn't really exist at my school) but people knew who we were. I dunno, im sure some people did get made fun of, but I don't remember anyone making fun of anyone really, for anything. I went to a very diverse school, lots of different races of kids, all from differnt economic backgrounds though.
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Look at our culture here: they've actually created a size 0...meaning they simply want us to now disappear?!
The ideal is bone thin--Paris Hilton; Mischa Barton; models on the cover of nearly every magazine we see on newsstands.
Changing these kinds of attitudes starts with one step at a time: with each one of us.
We have to look beyond appearances, whether it's a fat person, a handicapped person, a person with unusual facial features...we have to GIVE OTHER PEOPLE A CHANCE.
A chance, and time, to see who they are inside--a good person, an interesting person, a lively, fun person--someone worthwhile.
I haven't seen the movie yet, but just wanted to tell my experience as a 'fat' person. When I was at school, there wasn't much of teasing and that, but the worst thing for me was that it felt that I was invisable- people just pretended you didnt exist, and unfortunately it still happens.
sharesee that's what i'm talking about, some people DON'T think it exists, when we all know it does, and when people hear the reason for school shootings, that they were made fun of, people just blow it off, and think wow they were crazy in the brain, they weren't they just didn't have anyone to talk to, trust me it's embarrassing to talk about being fat and how you feel about it. i know that i'm just now, being 16, becoming comfortable, well not comfortable because i don't want to be fat, but i'm able to accept the fact that i am fat, and there is nothing that change that over night, and people have to accept that too, because if they don't they can miss out on a lot of good people, and possibly the love of their lives.
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Sadly it does, I am one of them too. Like I'd be talking to a friend or something then someone will be LOLYOUREFAT, so I will say shut up or just ignore it then one of their friends will come by and be like WATCH OUT IF HE ATTACKS ALL HE CAN DO IS SIT ON YOU AND YOU WILL DIE.
Its sad how people are.
This never happened at my high school, or at either of the middle schools I went to. It's just as unrealistic as any other high school oriented movie. Out of all of the thousands of bus rides I've taken, never once did I ride a bus where everyone glared at the first chubby person who got on. (The fatsuit chick in this movie wasn't even that fat. At least not compaired to some of the kids nowadays.)
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Are you serious? Don't you hear how guys talk about girls being "too fat" all the time, even when they aren't even really fat?
shareI think it depends on your town.
It doesn't happen in my school at all from what I've seen.
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I know what you mean. At my school, this doesn't happen. Well, except to the guys.. Which is stupid...
Anyway, I'm overweight, but not a "fat girl," but not skinny either. I have two friends who are big, both girls, and they have more friends than I do...They're like really popular and a lot of their friends are skinny, tiny girls. Then I have a friend who is big and he is a guy, and the other guys make fun of him. He laughs along with them but I think it really does hurt him, and I hate it... I never laugh at their jokes and always give them a look...especially if they say something to me. But they make fun of me saying I'm ugly too so, it's not like they'd listen to me.
I'm about twenty-five pounds overweight, so of course I'm not as big as the girls in here, but I'm not a skinny minnie.
The only person who complains about it is my dad. None of my friends mention it. They even yell at me when I talk about changing my diet, saying I need to do this or do that. They tell me I am beautiful and that I don't need to change. I've never heard anything about my weight from anyone but my dad.
How do you handle that? The smallest size I've ever been was a size 10, so my body itself, even if I were ten pounds underweight, isn't an anorexic looking body. I have hips. I work out, so I have shoulders and big chest.
I don't understand why he says that stuff but never brings it up to my sister who binges way more.