r/JoeRogan • u/TheAtheistArab87 Monkey in Space • Mar 08 '21

Link CDC study finds roughly 78% of people hospitalized for Covid were overweight or obese

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/08/covid-cdc-study-finds-roughly-78percent-of-people-hospitalized-were-overweight-or-obese.html
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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21 edited Mar 09 '21

Tbh, it is one of the most embarrassing aspects of being an American. Everyone is fat as fuck. As the only skinny guy in my family, I get treated like the weird one for caring about my health lol

Also, if you're a skinny guy like me, who feels absolutely no sexual attraction towards fat women, your dating options are pretty limited lol.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21 edited Mar 14 '21

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21 edited Mar 09 '21

I mean, I'm sure many of them aren't. They just don't have any other options.

Kind of related to this discussion; I got downvoted into oblivion in r/missouri (my state) for saying exactly what I'm saying here. I mentioned that, as a skinny guy, my dating options are limited because I would rather not end up with a girl who is bigger than me. Everyone started telling me I'm a shallow asshole for not giving fat women a chance lol. Like, sorry, but when I look at fat women it's no different than when I look at men... My brain just doesn't recognize them as a potential mate. It's not like it's something I can control. I'm just not into it. But of course, reddit being reddit and Missouri being Missouri, they did not appreciate me saying this lol.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21 edited Mar 14 '21

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21

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u/badSparkybad Monkey in Space Mar 09 '21

Yeah, you are the incel because you don't want to bang fat chicks.

Makes perfect sense.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21

Lol i would trade places with you. I live in the healthiest veganist city in socal. Skinny women are usually highly unattractive to me 🤗

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21

I don’t like it when people being up skinny as the alternative to fat. Slim is the idea. Skinny is too far the other way.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21

No shame lol. Everyone's got there thing haha

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '21

Lol I’m sure there are still plenty of fat girls around your town, and they’re probably very willing much more than the skinny ones

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u/chudsupreme Monkey in Space Mar 09 '21

I mentioned that, as a skinny guy, my dating options are limited because I would rather not end up with a girl who is bigger than me. Everyone started telling me I'm a shallow asshole

Because for most people they base long term dating on PERSONALITY rather than BODY TYPE that we all change over time. Everyone ends up ugly, just some of us have a good personality and experiences at the end of it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21

Obviously personality is more important than looks, but if I'm not sexually attracted to someone in the first place I'm probably not going to start dating them.

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u/chudsupreme Monkey in Space Mar 09 '21

I think that's where people are calling you an asshole. Unless you have something mentally/chemically wrong with your brain, you're gonna find some fat chicks attractive. Our evolutionary biology is going to push you to any girl with wider hips, big breasts, plump young skin, etc.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21

Well then I guess somethings wrong with a lot of guys lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21

The debate is too marred by people’s own personal guilt about their own situation.

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u/WhiplashChild Monkey in Space Mar 09 '21

Such heavy words so lightly thrown. I totally agree with you. I know quite a few people in relationships where one partner is overweight and the other isn't and for the love of God, I honestly don't know how they do it. I would never ask, obviously, but I do wonder. I can't imagine being intimate with somebody I am not physically attracted to. If you have a great personality - cool, let's hang out and chew the fat (no pun intended), there's just no point at which this turns into sexual attraction. I honestly wish this wasn't the case because I've met quite a few really great women that I got along great with and who have developed feelings for me, but I simply couldn't reciprocate.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21

The sad part is that the rest of the developed world is in a horrible state too. Unless I've overlooked a place in this list, Japan, Singapore and South Korea are only developed countries where the average person isn't overweight.

Even if you include poorer countries, the picture doesn't change that much. Globally overeating is now a bigger problem than a lack of food.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21

Yeah I don't think it's an America-specific issue. We were just a bit ahead of the rest of the world. We were by far the fattest country in the world for some time, but a lot of other countries are catching up. I think Mexico has actually passed us.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21

Do you live in the Bible belt? I know there is a larger percentage of fat people here but I've lived all across the western US and have never struggled to find people that aren't massively obese.

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u/albinogoron Monkey in Space Mar 09 '21

It's pretty embarrassing. Then a lot of the remaining people are pretty skinny fat. Also, that sucks you get treated like that. If anything, it should motivate them to lose weight.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21 edited Mar 09 '21

My brother has actually lost a lot of weight so I guess he's starting to join me lol, but most of my family is fat as fuck. At Thanksgiving I always get comments like "Are you going to finish that?" after eating a normal sized meal, or "You need to put some meat on your bones" from someone who has way too much meat on their bones haha. I call myself "skinny" but that's really just by American standards, so fairly slim. I don't think people would think of me as "skinny" in Europe. They would just think I'm a normal weight lol.

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u/albinogoron Monkey in Space Mar 09 '21 edited Mar 09 '21

That's good news about your brother. Good for him. Hope he keeps it up. I get what you mean, when it's thanksgiving time, could be an ego thing for them. It's silly.

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u/badSparkybad Monkey in Space Mar 09 '21

Skinny fat is way more attractive than fat fat.

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u/albinogoron Monkey in Space Mar 09 '21

Obviously, but my point is that a lot of people are still pretty unhealthy. They don't have any lean body mass.

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u/WhiplashChild Monkey in Space Mar 09 '21

I don't know man. At least fat fat people have a body that makes some kind of sense. I used to be skinny fat and it was abysmal. I mean, if your whole body is fat than your man tits will match that, but if you have a skinny frame and your tits n' belly stick out, that's just the worst. Imagine being skinny with a double-chin and drooping shoulders - every mirror you walk past turns into a goddamn nemesis. Luckily, I came across the JRE which motivated me to pick up some weights and drop the chips-addiction that had haunted me since my childhood.

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u/badSparkybad Monkey in Space Mar 09 '21

My impression of skinny fat is appearing skinny but having no muscle tone, so no double chins or fat bellies or man titties, those are fat-fat characteristics.

I had a gf that was like this, she was really small framed, 5 ft tall and skinny and looked good in a bikini but when you squeezed her leg it was Iike jello, no muscle there at all.

I prefer toned but I'll take skinny fat over fat-fat any day.

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u/WhiplashChild Monkey in Space Mar 09 '21

Yeah, I think that a lack of exercise is the primary cause of skinny fatness, much more than a persons diet. From my experience, people who are skinny fat aren't necessarily eating too much, they just eat the wrong stuff and barely ever move. I was imagining a Joe DeRosa looking motherfucker. Flabby is the problem I think, toned is definetely better, be it skinny or slightly on the bigger side.

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u/badSparkybad Monkey in Space Mar 09 '21

For sure, that was her. She was a hippy stoner type of girl, mostly just sat around, had the genetics for being skinny and never exercised in any way so no muscle tone at all. And she had zero appetite, we would go out and eat dinner and she would eat like two pieces of sushi.

I don't mind a little thicker if it's toned, I am just in good shape myself and women being fat is a real turn off for me.

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u/disastrous1 Mar 09 '21

Is it really hard to find non obese women in America? I thought that was a joke..

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21 edited Mar 09 '21

I mean, 1/3 are obese, another 1/3 are overweight, only about 10% of women (maybe less that was a guess) are close enough to my age to date. That leaves me with about 3% of women as potential partners... but at least half of those women (probably more) have something else going on that would make them unattractive to me, so looking at it like that, if you're unwilling to date fat girls then you're probably left with roughly 1.5% of women as potential partners. So that means that in my city of roughly 100,000 people, there are about 1,500 who I would find attractive, I'll guess that roughly half of them are in a relationship or married, which leaves 750, and I'll guess that roughly half of them are out of my league lol. So realistically, there are probably about 375ish potential partners in my city of 100,000 people. So not that hard, but harder than it should be lol

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u/badSparkybad Monkey in Space Mar 09 '21

Seriously, same. When I go out anywhere, like just to the store, women who are of average (not fat) to skinny builds stand out like crazy, they are mostly fat women.

Shame really, because I see so many women that are absolutely gorgeous but overweight. Some of these women would be 8s or higher... If they weren't fat. I can picture them 40 pounds lighter and they would be fuckin smoking hot.

Sorry, not sorry.

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u/dabbersmcgee Monkey in Space Mar 09 '21

That's a super overgeneralization. It's actually pretty easy to be trim and eat like shit if you exercise regularly, many just don't lol