Nothing makes you want to lose weight like a holiday to C-town after a short spell abroad.
When I got back I wasn't greeted with "Oh how lovely to see you" or "How's England?". Instead I got "Ah you've put on weight no", "Your shoulders seem broader", "I think you've enlarged a bit" and many other comments along that very flattering vein...
Unfortunately the thought of having 'put on weight' actually makes me want to lose some. As blasé as I'd like to be about the whole thing...I actually do care. Just a little bit.
I've always lived in fear of growing fat, and like I said, there's nothing like a trip back home to reawaken any dormant weight-related paranoia you might have.
That and an uncle who insists on singing "Ohhh oh light on the bum, but heavy on tum...la la...".
Charming.
Well on the plus(?) side, I was told that I had become 'fairer' as well. (Seriously, how do people notice these things?)
I hate how in SL the criteria for being beautiful is to be skinny and 'fair', fullstop. Because god forbid an asian to actually be dark. How unnatural.
My aunt was telling me about how someone, when offering her a nanny for her son, went, "Only thing, she's very dark. Might scare the child no?".
I think we're one of those very special few races who are actually prejudiced against themselves.
Skinny, fat, light, dark, whatever. I think we should all just get over it.
Including myself.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
You've Put On Weigh, Ah!
Posted by Sapphira at 2:50 PM
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"Ohhh oh light on the bum, but heavy on tum...la la...".
LOL! Your uncle sounds fun. :D
And seriously man, our local Fair and Lovely ads are bordering on racist.. :P
haha good one shruthi. makes ALOT of sense especially when you live in SL! it's all aunties, uncles, grandparents and the rest of them ever talk about.
LOL... nice :)
lol good post. A counseling friend told me once, that the very Sri Lankan "oh you've gone fat/ think" is merely a conversation starter. Coz they have nothing better to say. :D It's not that they mean it, ok maybe they do, but it’s always top of mind. Don’t mind. It’s just a process from questions starting from begin fat/ thin, finishing studies, finishing masters, getting a job, having a guy, getting married, having babies, giving grandbabies ect…and beyond!
Personally I like skinny and dark:D
But yes Lankans are generally obsessed with weight/darkness for some unfathomable reason.
I once got this compliment(?) from an uncle: "ah you have lost weight! But... have gotten very dark!" sometimes i sometimes think they like to throw in an insult just for the sake of it.
the anti-darkness is in a lot of non-white cultures. A Taiwanese friend said that being tanned is disliked as it's associated with being a peasant. I read somewhere that Hawaiian royalty would keep their princesses inside all day to keep them away from the sun.
I think it started as a class thing, i.e. if you're fair, you clearly aren't someone who works outside.
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