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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Is it a regional or sexist issue with people stating their body type.

So I’ve met some that are a dress size 8/10, and class themselves as average, a size 12, as curvy, and then a size 14 as average?

I see athletic describe a size 6 runner, but then a clear size 14/16 also athletic?

Men I see athletic waste bands from a 30” to a 40”, I’ve seen a slim 36” waste on a 5ft4 man, and I’ve seen a large 32” waste on a 6ft man?

Can people be more honest, or get better mirrors, or do men and women from different areas class slim and large completely differently?

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Sizest, surely? Measurementist perhaps....

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By *ohnjones3210Man
over a year ago

Chester


"Is it a regional or sexist issue with people stating their body type.

So I’ve met some that are a dress size 8/10, and class themselves as average, a size 12, as curvy, and then a size 14 as average?

I see athletic describe a size 6 runner, but then a clear size 14/16 also athletic?

Men I see athletic waste bands from a 30” to a 40”, I’ve seen a slim 36” waste on a 5ft4 man, and I’ve seen a large 32” waste on a 6ft man?

Can people be more honest, or get better mirrors, or do men and women from different areas class slim and large completely differently?"

It was lovely meeting you. Ha!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Size is subjective

If you need to know the proportions - ask

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

I see you are thicker than average too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Easy peasy. Give us the definitive criteria and we can all go file ourselves properly

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By *ensualtouch15Man
over a year ago

ashby de la zouch


"Is it a regional or sexist issue with people stating their body type.

So I’ve met some that are a dress size 8/10, and class themselves as average, a size 12, as curvy, and then a size 14 as average?

I see athletic describe a size 6 runner, but then a clear size 14/16 also athletic?

Men I see athletic waste bands from a 30” to a 40”, I’ve seen a slim 36” waste on a 5ft4 man, and I’ve seen a large 32” waste on a 6ft man?

Can people be more honest, or get better mirrors, or do men and women from different areas class slim and large completely differently?"

Sorry how should I describe?

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By *aven RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

That's also what pictures are for. Size definition is subjective from person to person x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Does size really matter? Lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Maybe body Dismorphia?, I see myself as Ample and get told off often by friends and men perving my pics but its how I feel and see myself x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I say curvy, can’t get in any trouble then!

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

The fab body type options aren't ideal, as our starting point, especially as they are the same for all genders.

As UK body weights have increased compared to the past, an average is probably now somewhat overwhat, when average 20 years ago would have been closer to lean.

Other sites that use physical info mix it between users adding more data, waist, chest etc or more descriptive gender-relevant labels.

Like a bit of fab, this is trailing much of the net.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don’t even look. I go by pics

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By *yx_InannaWoman
over a year ago

Burslem

You forget that skeletal size also attributes to actual size. I was anorexic with size 12 hips. Since having severe spd my hips splay more the smallest size is be able wear now is a 14/16 if I lost all the weight. People's bodies are different and they change, some people weigh more because their bones are more dense. Slender people can weigh more than someone same physical measurements due to muscle weight, internal fat density and bone density.

Everyone is different and if people focus on physical features you miss out on who they are as a person. Short, tall, thin, wide, lean, fat, thin shoulders, broad shoulders, list goes on the combinations go on and on. Enjoy what makes us all unique not judge.

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By *aven RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool


"You forget that skeletal size also attributes to actual size. I was anorexic with size 12 hips. Since having severe spd my hips splay more the smallest size is be able wear now is a 14/16 if I lost all the weight. People's bodies are different and they change, some people weigh more because their bones are more dense. Slender people can weigh more than someone same physical measurements due to muscle weight, internal fat density and bone density.

Everyone is different and if people focus on physical features you miss out on who they are as a person. Short, tall, thin, wide, lean, fat, thin shoulders, broad shoulders, list goes on the combinations go on and on. Enjoy what makes us all unique not judge."

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By *tarbuck007Man
over a year ago

up2no good

Size doesn't matter aslong as you not afraid to use your curves

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By *mberWoman
over a year ago

Preston

I'm a size 10.

I've put curvy.

Curvy is not a size. It's a shape and I am.

You can be slim and curvy, you can be fat and curvy.

You can also be slim or fat and not curvy.

Better to just look at the photos.

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By *exy mature ladyWoman
over a year ago

Newport

I've put curvy on mine...size 16....5ft9...with wobbly bits lol

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By *inky Biscuit DunkerMan
over a year ago

Gloucestershire

One persons slim is another's curvy.

It's up to you OP how you choose to 'pigeonhole" people

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

It really doesn't matter what you put your body type as. I could say I'm athletic if I wanted, but people are generally smart enough to look at the pictures and judge for themselves aren't they?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The fella has body dismorphia, he definitely sees people bigger than they actually are including himself, nothing wrong with it or much he can do about it, it's just him.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *elshkinkyMan
over a year ago

south wales

Give me a confident woman any day. No matter what her size

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’m curvy, fat, fu**ing massive ( to the ignorant few). But my pics let people decide what I am x

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By *am4CamWoman
over a year ago

Fairy Land

Body types are personal to the person doing the classifying. Would you rather we put our essential measurements in OP?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'd agree that it's much more complex than a few set labels that we have the option to choose from.

I'm now a size 12-14 and I describe myself as curvy, although I'm told.the average dress size for a woman is a UK 16.

I just don't think you can judge everyone the same way based on a one word description, I was a size 6 a few years ago, but I wasn't athletic. I was up to my eyeballs in an eating disorder and I was underweight.

One person's "athletic" size is another person's "underweight and killing myself" size.

I find it much easier just to look at photos to get an idea of what someone looks like.

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

Size is all about our own perceptions, I am a large lady but to some I’m not large enough where others see me as extra extra large, it’s all very subjective

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By *partacus2024Man
over a year ago

Near You


"Size is all about our own perceptions, I am a large lady but to some I’m not large enough where others see me as extra extra large, it’s all very subjective "

Your still here

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just throwing it out there but surely how everyone sees themselves is their own business?? Not sure why everyone should justify themselves to you OP....especially about their WAIST size

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’m what you see is what you get, how you want to describe me then it’s up to you. I can vary from curvy to obese especially get told obese by people I say no thanks to .... I prefer to post pics and let people decide if they are interested in me or not.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

So having a 36" waist means I'm not athletic?

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By *mberWoman
over a year ago

Preston


"So having a 36" waist means I'm not athletic? "

Nope

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’m your type

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By *abswinger555Man
over a year ago

EXETER


"I say curvy, can’t get in any trouble then! "
you have an amazing body xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I find it hard to work out how to class myself I’m not anything in any particular strength

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've put curvy on mine...size 16....5ft9...with wobbly bits lol "

Very similar to me, I am 5ft 10, size 16-18.

I put curvy but also state my dress size in my bio because my corsets can make me look slimmer.

People can describe themselfs however they see themselfs, I might be ample to some but slim to others. Curvy is best as that can me any size and I have a very cirvy shape.

For men there should be a chubby/dad bod deacription as it just goes from average to ample and seen many men put curvy as a result of this

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"So having a 36" waist means I'm not athletic? "

Nope, sorry. They don't do grey joggers in a 36" waist, do they?!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Easy peasy. Give us the definitive criteria and we can all go file ourselves properly "

I didn't need to scroll any further after this response

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