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[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

Ariana Grande is skinny.

She's practically dying. She's skeletal.

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[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Ever heard the phrase "skin and bones"?

That's where skinny comes from.

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[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

And as evidenced here, the definition of skinny varies wildly.

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[–] Soup@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ariana Grande looks like she has a very serious eating disorder. She’s not skinny, she looks malnourished.

It’s like saying that a Honda Civic is a muscle car because someone rolled up in a poorly setup Kei car.

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Skinny used to be a pejorative and it basically meant that you were too poor to feed yourself, i.e. malnourished.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 point 2 weeks ago

yeah but now it means you're rich enough you don't have to spend all your waking hours eating and working

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[–] yuri@pawb.social 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

what

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[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Skinny means you can see the bones.

I'm not saying I find it attractive, I'm not arguing that it's healthy.

Taylor Swift is not skinny.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 weeks ago*

Thats not what skinny means.

You've defined skinny as 'medically dangerously low levels of body fat/muscle tissue'.

It is possible to be skinny and healthy.

Ariana Grande is so far beyond skinny that she genuienly needs an immediate medical intervention.

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[–] yuri@pawb.social 10 points 2 weeks ago

golly that’s not what i understand skinny to mean. i think it’d be odd if “every skinny person is unhealthy” was true by definition

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Skinny means you can see the bones.

No, it does not. Your opinion of what a relative term means is not fact.