+308 If a girl asks, "Does this dress make me look fat?", she shouldn't get angry if the answer is yes. If she didn't want to know, she shouldn't have asked and it's better to know a dress makes you look bigger than you are so you don't buy it and realize that yourself, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

When girls ask that, they're expecting a no. I wouldn't do that myself, but that's what I'm pretty sure happens. Even if they think they do look fat it helps hem to hear someone disagree.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"It's not the dress that makes you look fat, it's the fat that makes you look fat" -Al Bundy

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Some dresses actually make not fat people look fat.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not many girls ask that, but if they do, they are looking for reassurance regarding their looks. It hurts when someone close to you says that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's a stupid way to ask for reassurance. If you ask "Do I look okay?", I highly doubt anyone is going to say, "Nah, you look super fat." Plus, if you're shopping and you're asking that, you're more or less trying to talk yourself into the dress which you should //never// do because you'll probably end up hating it anyways.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Which is why I said girls don't usually ask if they look fat, unless they want a serious, truthful answer. Not all women are the way they are portrayed in sexist television commercials about weight loss. And calling something stupid isn't a good argument. You realize that people are going to be insecure about their looks, either from intrinsic or extrinsic motivation, correct? It isn't about the dress. It's about their body. It's a thinly veiled way to address body issues.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"Not all women are the way they are portrayed in sexist television commercials." A click on my profile would show you that I'm a girl so I know that. Calling something stupid is a perfectly reasonable argument if you follow it up with a less stupid solution. I'm an //incredibly// insecure person and I get anxious about practically everything, but I wouldn't ask someone if a dress makes me look fat if I thought there was a chance they might say yes. I would ask if I look okay because if they no, it could be about a variety of things and I could justify it as something besides me being fat.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

There's definitely a much nicer way to say it. "The dress is pretty, but it doesn't flatter you as much as that other dress you tried on." is a pretty fair way to get the message across without saying yes, you look fat.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"You look uncomfortable in this one"

by Anonymous 12 years ago