Anybody want some yoga pants?

"Anima" (anima) 10/26/2016 at 18:06 • Filed to: None

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I found these pictures in the items for sale from a ebay seller I bought a completely unrelated item from and they amuse my greatly.

Takuro Spirit > Anima 10/26/2016 at 18:09

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*Sumo

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Anima 10/26/2016 at 18:10

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Yoga tents.

Ftfy.

and 100 more > Anima 10/26/2016 at 18:12

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JNCO is out of the denim business, i guess!

Noah - Now with more boost. > and 100 more 10/26/2016 at 18:14

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LOL!!!!!!!

Anima > and 100 more 10/26/2016 at 18:21

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As a non American I had to google that.

My life was better when I didn’t know about JNCO.

The Lurktastic Opponaught > Anima 10/26/2016 at 18:22

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Room for a friend...

Xyl0c41n3 > Anima 10/26/2016 at 18:24

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When my mom was a young woman, she used to sew pants and undergarments for a woman who couldn’t find clothing in her size in stores.

Nowadays, big and tall stores are more easily accessible, but even they can’t accommodate everyone, nor are they found in every community. These pants look like they’re probably homemade, too. Maybe your figure is more modelesque, but that doesn’t give you the right to make fun of these clothes or the people who need them. They’re human and deserving of every measure of dignity and respect as you. So grow up.

Anima > The Lurktastic Opponaught 10/26/2016 at 18:24

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Or you know, a dinner party.

and 100 more > Anima 10/26/2016 at 18:34

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For shits, I googled it too. It was so painfully, awkwardly ‘90s.

Anima > Xyl0c41n3 10/26/2016 at 18:35

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I’m absolutely not trying to diminish anybody’s worth with this post. It’s just that the juxtaposition of two skinny Thai people holding up giant yoga pants, which they are trying to sell on a western sales platform, in a random hallway, amused me.

I’m not making fun of people. I’m making fun of the situation.

Having said that, when you have reached the weight where you would need pants like those (asides from the very few people that due to medical reasons cannot change their situation, and mental illness is partly in there too) I do think a modest amount of criticism is justified. It doesn’t change anything about their worth as a person, but a healthy concern (no pun intended) is not a bad thing either.

And this is coming from someone who is overweight himself.

I think I’m fairly grown up, thank you very much.

(Now let me get back to my Legos)

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > Anima 10/26/2016 at 18:37

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That’s a healthy gusset. Good for stretching.

Anima > and 100 more 10/26/2016 at 18:38

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I mean.. I rocked superbaggy black pants in my awkward teen goth days.. but this is just.. 90's edgy cartoon levels wide.

Xyl0c41n3 > Anima 10/26/2016 at 18:39

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Nope. There is absolutely no number on a scale that, once reached, gives you the right to criticize someone. It doesn’t matter that you’re not at your ideal/desired/doctor recommended weight either.

You do NOT have the right to judge someone else because they don’t satisfy your metric for having a satisfactory medical or mental health excuse.

You’re othering them and treating them as less than human and that is never ok.

and 100 more > Anima 10/26/2016 at 18:41

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And somehow, they were insanely popular with the “skaters” back in California when i was growing up.

I put “skaters” in quotes because where I grew up there was far too much sand and far too few sidewalks for anyone to ever actually ride a skateboard anywhere.

Anima > Xyl0c41n3 10/26/2016 at 18:52

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There is definitely a number on the scale at which point health starts to become an issue and you have to start questioning (your own) behavior. Same as with overdoing anything.

And if someone is comfortable with their weight and themselves, I can’t see why they would object to a joke about people holding up oversized pants.

I’m not ‘othering’ them or ‘treating them less then human’ and if you read my last reply, you’d actually see this sentence: ‘It doesn’t change anything about their worth as a person’.

If someone drinks too much, is it dehumanizing to say “hey maybe work on that and cut back a bit”?

In most cases it’s an addiction, and dealing with that is confronting it.

Once again: Not making fun of anybody. Just having a laugh about the weird situation.

ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper > Anima 10/26/2016 at 18:52

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As eloquent as this was, “people” are too sensitive to appreciate it. But please carry on with the modest amount of justified criticism.

Anima > and 100 more 10/26/2016 at 18:52

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*shudders*

ESSSIX GmbH - Accountant/Wagon Thumper > Xyl0c41n3 10/26/2016 at 19:00

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Its more a species metric, clearly OP was talking about outliers, and there are numbers on a scale, and the scale is BMI(accuracy aside). And since we all make our own choices, healthy** criticism is how we generally learn if we made the right ones.

bob and john > and 100 more 10/26/2016 at 19:06

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....Why did I google that. Why

Though now that i think about it, i was wearing overly baggy jeans. maybe not to THAT extend...but probably not too far from it.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > Anima 10/26/2016 at 19:20

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Yoga pants by Omar the Tent Maker.

Out of curiosity, what size do those purport to be? I mean I’m literally the fattest guy I know and those are, even to me, very very big.

Anima > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 10/26/2016 at 19:29

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The ad says ‘XXL JUMBO’ so that I guess?

Xyl0c41n3 > Anima 10/26/2016 at 19:39

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You ARE making fun of people. The photos “amuse (you) greatly.” You’re not at all concerned about the health of the people who need them because you don’t even know who will buy these pants. And to say that you are is concern trolling at its worst.

I never said there’s no number on the scale where health concerns don’t become valid, I said there’s no number on the scale that gives YOU the right to criticize people because they don’t fit your definition of acceptable.

This isn’t the same as your significant other or best friend or brother/sister becoming overweight to the point of it impacting their health. This isn’t the same as you lovingly approaching someone you know and care about and saying you want to help them and you’re concerned for their wellbeing.

This is you fat shaming unknown anonymous people because they’re an easy target. You don’t know who they are, so it’s harmless, right? Wrong.

“but this is just.. 90's edgy cartoon levels wide.”

“(Room for) a dinner party”

These are your own words in these comments, making fun of the pants, and by consequence, the people who need themz

That absolutely does change YOUR personal perception of their worth as a person, despite your insistence to the contrary. If it didn’t, you wouldn’t have felt entitled to make the joke in the first place.

deprecated account > Xyl0c41n3 10/26/2016 at 19:55

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Anima > Xyl0c41n3 10/26/2016 at 20:10

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I am concerned about their health that they need them in the first place and why I made it quite clear in my first response that, in the substantiation that I gave, I set aside “the very few people that due to medical reasons cannot change their situation, and mental illness is partly in there too”.

I feel the point where people become a threat to their own health is the point where you can question those people’s behavior. AGAIN, not diminishing their worth, but it becomes at that point a subject that can be brought up in the right occasion, context and familiarity.

And no this isn’t someone I know. These are some pants. Held up by Thai people in a hallway.

Let’s be clear here: being ‘morbidly obese’, which is what we are talking about here, is not something a mentally healthy person want’s to be. Circumstances can lead to you getting there and that doesn’t mean you are worth anything less or don’t deserve respect. It does however mean there is a problem that needs to be acknowledged and hopefully dealt with, with support of others.

The joke I made wasn’t about specific people of a specific weight. It was about the juxtaposition.

This is the last reply I’ll give in this thread. We are not going to agree. I can tell this. There is no point in prolonging it. I you feel like you want to have the last word in this, here is your opportunity.

Everybody is allowed to do what they want with their own body and in their own space. Hell, as long as everyone is adult and consenting I couldn’t care less about what people do. However, there is a nuance in public perception and there is a health factor that, when addressed, can actually help people overcome problems. People that truly are happy with themselves don’t care about opinions people have in general of either of those.

Xyl0c41n3 > Anima 10/26/2016 at 20:46

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K. Keep on being a fat shamer, then.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Xyl0c41n3 10/26/2016 at 21:17

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Hey guess what, I’m obese and what Anima is saying is perfectly inoffensive. Move along now. Leave people to advocate for themselves.

and 100 more > bob and john 10/26/2016 at 21:45

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I was too. We were young, dumb, and full of Surge, we can’t be held responsible.

(Sorry not sorry about the incoming Verve Pipe earworm.)