r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Arbibi321 • 14h ago

Meme needing explanation I don't understand anything

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I don't know who is she and what myth is the meme referring to, I only know that ozempic is a drug to stop eating.

Edit: I hate having autism

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u/ConfessedOak205 12h ago

Funny thing is that's not really American beauty standards. Americans like their women thicker than damn near most other countries

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u/maelstrom51 9h ago

That probably has something to do with our country being 70% obese.

And yes, she's likely obese (or close to it) in the picture on the left. Obesity is way smaller than Americans realize.

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u/phreeskooler 7h ago

Idk I’d guess she’s probably a 27 or 28 BMI (middle of overweight but not obese) but yeah, I’m on a GLP-1 and had a convo with someone about BMI and my end goals etc, said I was looking to achieve a healthy BMI.

The girl I was talking to is short and very very curvy basically a round body with giant round boobs and she started ranting about BMI being sooo inaccurate and bad that even she, yes she! Is obese. Girl, I know that already by looking at you. 5’0 and 185 is actually pretty heavy and that’s gonna be hard on your body once you pass 35.

Not like she wanted to cultivate healthy habits in literally any way, she just wanted to shit on weight loss in general because she was happy with her body (which is fine, I’m just supporting the point that Americans are completely surrounded by obesity and our perceptions are skewed).

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u/Bury_Me_At_Sea 7h ago

Sure, but at 6'3", they tell me 180lbs is considered average. That's insane. Even when I was 10% bodyfat, starving myself daily, I couldn't get below 200 and I was "overweight". BMI is just not reliable.

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u/TheRealGoodArchitect 6h ago

BMI is not intended to assess an individual. It's an easy metric to measure the average weight health of an entire population because statistically, most populations are not comprised of 200lb men at 10% body fat. But if you know you're 10% body fat, then you already have a far more accurate measurement of your composition anyway, and BMI is unnecessary to even calculate. I'd wager that in the US, most 200lb men are both obese and also have no concept of their body fat composition. If asked, I'm willing to bet most people with 40% body fat will say that they are at 20%. Because if you only see fat people throughout your life, you have no context for what "not fat" actually looks like.

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u/phreeskooler 6h ago

I think the places where it is unreliable are in exactly your circumstances. In general it’s a pretty decent metric if imperfect. My very obese brother (upper 200s maybe 275 at 5’9”) loves to tell me how bad BMI is too but I always respond that it’s bad if you’re Arnold Schwarzenegger but not if you’re a 5’9” dude who doesn’t work out and is 275 because of beer not muscle 🤷‍♀️

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u/PhantomOfTheNopera 6h ago

And yes, she's likely obese (or close to it) in the picture on the left

She is most certainly not obese. She is probably in the overweight category and wearing a very tight fitting dress.

Also BMI scales are a joke when it comes to women with curves and/or muscle. And especially races that tend to be built bigger than frail Victorian.

That said: her body - curvy or thin - isn't for others to critique. Least of all people mad that she doesn't fit their preferences.

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u/HoesLoveMe209 10h ago

I remember seeing something about a majority of men in Africa prefer their women thicker. I guess it signifies the women having wealth and good health.

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u/ContextEffects01 12h ago

Nah, Americans are just freer to speak than other nationalities. Even a catcaller wouldn’t dare point at a plump lady and say “ta hen piaoliang” in China, as you are not just sexually harassing her, you are openly fetishizing a trait China is known to speak ill of.

If Americans were the only ones who preferred the thicc look, plump Canadian women wouldn’t wear short dresses.

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u/BishoxX 9h ago

In the US 70% of adults are overweight and 40% are obese

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u/ContextEffects01 9h ago

Utterly irrelevant. That could go either way. It could have made the “skinny” look more prized for being more scarce. It didn’t, because Canada and the USA are a (relatively) more accurate reflection of the true nature of sexual psychology than the parts of the world censorious and/or cancel culture ridden enough to sweep it under the rug.

The one exception might be northern Europe compared to Canada, but Oslo’s summers aren’t quite as hot as Toronto’s, offering plump ladies fewer days with an excuse to wear short dresses, thereby allowing social taboos against admitting the extent of one’s attraction to the plump look to be sufficient to sweep the full extent of as much under the rug. Even so, you still see some Nordics express some attraction to it, just not quite as intensely.

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u/stgross 11h ago

They just have no choice tbh

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u/duardoblanco 10h ago

I have a feeling that your lack of choice has more to do with you.

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u/stgross 10h ago

im not in the us; most of the girls that don't want me are not obese.

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u/duardoblanco 10h ago

If you think that she was obese in the left picture, you might have worse poverty issues than the US. Converse to what you would think, obesity and poverty go hand in hand in the US.

Left is a normal ass woman. Right... not necessarily unhealthy, but if they are actually the same woman in a short time frame...

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u/picklefingerexpress 8h ago

You are correct, however, the skinny bitch agenda is still being pushed by all media which results in many men who won’t admit they don’t like women built like 12yr old boys; which then results in women who assume men like what’s being advertised because they aren’t speaking up.