To Be Skinny Or Not to Be

One evening, I was at a club on Second Life where the usual conversations among circle of friends were going on when this person asks why every woman on here wants to be skinny and short. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize why this is. People tend to alter their avatars to be fat when they want to make fun of the way overweight people look like in real life. No woman wants to come onto here to deal with the constant ridicule of body weight. Of course, people having big butts on here is more acceptable than full on overweight look. I am overweight in real life but when I come onto here I feel like sexy in this skinny perfect pixel. It is not a fun existence in life to be overweight because you are made fun of since your early years of school and way into your adulthood. I have found that only a small number of men prefer overweight women over the thin ones. It also makes more sense that avatars are skinny due to the fact that we hardly if ever eat in this world. Can you imagine Second Life with a bunch of overweight avatars? I don't think anyone can answer that as a yes unless they like their significant other as overweight. Every woman wants her man to love her skinny or overweight, rich or poor, and healthy or sick but that is adoring not only the Second Life self but also their real life self. I never care about looks in either world but I do have things on men I don't particularly like which are the super muscular look and the noobish look in avatars. I worked hard to get my avatar to look the way that I like to see everyday I am logged in so I appreciate men who took a fairly good amount of time on their avatar look. I wouldn't be with a overweight looking male avatar because it gives me bad memories of being at club events where they looked that way to make fun of overweightness. The whole idea of online dating is that you come to know the person based on their personality and not solely on how a pixel looks. I tend to refer to my Second Life self as a pixel when I am with any man since I don't want them to get used to a skinny body when I am the total opposite real life. Everyday I work hard in real life to hopefully be somewhat skinny which I feel that my avatar helps me to keep motivated to lose weight. However, I am not losing weight for the strong need to please the men who don't appreciate me for who I am but I'm doing it for my own health. The hard facts is that so many people see beauty as skinny but it really isn't since the most beautiful/handsome people in both lives are those who a nice in personality and don't set forth in life to deliberately hurt others. I know for me that nothing sexier in a man than his honesty and sense of humor.