What’s your favourite response to the “does this make me look fat” trap?

44 comments

1. Just your ass

2. I’ll give an honest answer and refuse to be in a relationship with whoever can’t handle it.

3. My HS teacher once said “I wouldn’t blame the dress” to his wife

4. “No, it’s all the donuts and ice cream you’ve been eating.”

5. “Fuck yeah! Momma real thicc!”

6. No, just the ass you put in it.

7. No, that doesn’t make you look fat. The fat makes you look fat.

8. Oh fuck yeah!

9. I awenser, honestly. My wife doesn’t look fat in anything she wears, so I’m kind of lucky in that department

10. “Fuck yes it does! Get your ass in the car”

11. Some variant of “I don’t like it as much as <some more flattering thing she’s worn recently or tried on>”.

12. Idk turn around and bend over for me. You know for context. Now give me a little bounce. You know so I can make a educated observation. Repeat these steps till she leave you alone.

13. 69%. There is scope for improvement,on either side.

14. No it makes the rest of us look thin

15. It makes you look gravitationally challenged.

16. I just say I appreciate curves then
    Proceed with a tight yet frim butt grub ..

17. Honesty. Its a shit test.

18. I’m 40 years old and have been married almost 10 years, I’ve never been asked that question.

19. I’m a woman, and I feel we shouldn’t ask that question if we can’t handle the truth. Men shouldn’t have to lie to make us feel better.

20. “come here and let me see”

    Then you start poking her, grabbing her butt etc etc you should be able to take it from here.

    “Does this make me look fat”=”do you think I’m still attractive” and the best way to do that is be physically attracted to her

21. Nah, but I would sure look fat in it!

22. I would just be honest and say “yeah that (whatever they’re wearing) does make you look a little fat”.

23. A few blocks away you didn’t look that fat

24. I have literally never been asked this by a woman. My women were much more subtle and dangerous in their passive-aggression.

25. Yes.

26. “Not at all, but it doesn’t really go with <insert other item being worn> and I really love that <other item> on you.” Has literally worked every time.

27. It doesn’t make your ass look fat. Your ass makes your ass look fat.

28. “Fatter than what?”

29. “No, your giant tummy makes you look fat”

30. “You make the dress look fat.”

31. Ask, how do you feel in it?? Let them answer their own question

32. Honesty is the best policy clearly..,

33. No, you were already fat when you put it on.

34. It’s not always a trap. Straight-waisted dresses look awful on women with hourglass figures yet for some reason they still buy them, and, yes, they look fat in them. I say, “It’s not flattering. You need something that follows your curves closer.” It’s accurate, honest, helpful, and focused on the dress and not their figure.

35. “Ehh. Little bit.”

36. I tell them straight, because I’m the only one they know who will be honest with them, and they know the truth too.

37. My usual answer is
    “Does this shirt make me look stupid?”

    Which gets a giggle, and then i give an honest answer about whether or not the particular garment is flattering.

    It usually works.

38. The only way to win is to not play.

39. It’s not the dress that makes you look fat,it’s the fat that makes you look fat.

40. “It’s not the dress that makes you look fat…it’s the fat that makes you look fat”

    – The Great Al Bundy

41. You make this fat wit that dress ” (while grabbing 🍆) works every time

42. “It’s not the clothes, it’s what you eat.”

43. Not compared to what you normally wear

44. I once eventually said along the lines of “you are beautiful and also I’m never going to be able to make you feel better about how you see yourself in the mirror with anything I say. There are things about the way you are and live your life that you need to change in order for you to be able to feel better about it.”

    I got yelled at that night but a couple of years later she began working out at home and is now, a few years after that, in the best shape of her life and I’ve actually never heard those awful words again