It would be a false equivalency if I wasn’t continually stressing “unquestionably fat.” Meaning that the person is fat within the judgements of almost all reasonable people and thus removing most of the gray area.
In that case, I would indeed compare it to someone who is “unquestionably short” (short can of course depend on the population, and who is being compared as well, but there is certainly a range of height that is also well outside any reasonable measure of average) asking if they were short.
Hopefully thus, you can see how unquestionably short can make the question of “am I short” seem as bizarre or indicative of a perception problem as unquestionably fat can make “do I look fat” in my eyes.
Hi Said,
It would be a false equivalency if I wasn’t continually stressing “unquestionably fat.” Meaning that the person is fat within the judgements of almost all reasonable people and thus removing most of the gray area.
In that case, I would indeed compare it to someone who is “unquestionably short” (short can of course depend on the population, and who is being compared as well, but there is certainly a range of height that is also well outside any reasonable measure of average) asking if they were short.
Hopefully thus, you can see how unquestionably short can make the question of “am I short” seem as bizarre or indicative of a perception problem as unquestionably fat can make “do I look fat” in my eyes.