Something that I am a bit curious about now is what you would consider ideal weight for a woman? You've already mentioned a bit that you consider a woman closer to your own height to be more attractive, and what you would consider attractive weight would be an interesting thing to know as well, seeing as others have provided examples of what they would consider, and you have responded to a few of those considerations.
I am also curious as to what your definitions as far as "excess weight" are? You have stated that excess weight will overwhelm the body and cause certain problems, and I am wondering what weight you believe these problems are likely to happen at.
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If you have experienced some amount of prejudice, I suppose I owe an apology for my assumption. And now I'm more curious as to whether you were ostracized not necessarily for being very bright and quirky, but also possibly for being a bit argumentative as well? =P
Can I say that safely without having something repeated at me thrice as though I need it sufficiently beat into my thick skull?
Now, you might ask yourself how anybody could like the thought of being fat, but you would be forgetting that the reason this question occurs to you so intuitively is that you've grown up in a culture where fat prejudice is very strong.
I would like to point out that this question did not occur to me. As a critique, a lot of your responses in general to most people seems to lie under the assumption that weighing heavily in their mind, and behind a lot of what they say, is the strong culturally influenced ideal that fat is wrong, that everything everyone has said stems from this prejudice, and pointing out where you believe it might be showing through. Truly, this might be the case in many instances - still, it makes it nearly impossible to make a slightly adverse point to yours, because the point could always easily be written off as having an underlying prejudice that you are discussing showing through. Rearing its ugly head, one might say. Or... err... not say.
Also, it seems that it would be pointless to search and post links to anything such as a study that possibly links health problems to weight gain, simply because you have also mentioned several times that you believe such studies are taken up based on the prejudice - that these people are searching for why fat is bad, or noticing such things because they wish to prove that fat is bad, to back up their prejudice. Still, scientific research is rarely absolute - some people take certain theories as "law," but even these could possibly, in time, be debunked. In this sense, one could say that researchers are simply trying to prove that fat is bad, and it would be highly difficult to argue that point - but if there is a high correlation between such things as, say, weight gain and diabetes, is it really safe to so quickly toss it out the window as "possibly being backed by prejudice"?
You lost your logic line somewhere in there. Judging a person who judges a person by race, as racist, is not racist. (I dare you to read that sentence aloud.) Your statement is sort of a gibberish.
I know what he said used the wrong words, but is it really so difficult to figure out for one so bright and quirky as you, oh lord?
I believe what he meant was that, hating people who are racist is a prejudice within itself. We all have our underlying prejudices - I believe at some point you expressed that you have a prejudice yourself against people who are highly sexist.
...Still, I wonder about how we're using the word prejudice here. An exact definition always involves "preconceptions" and silly ideals that you hold about people that are not necessarily true. Once people throw around the word prejudice, the simplest definition seems to be that we all hate and judge, which isn't necessarily a correct definition of the word. Then again, I suppose that to judge a person without fully knowing them takes a certain amount of what you percieve about them that might not necessarily be true... and also the English language is ever changing... still I suppose this last bit is digression.
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