Idk. But I remember my mom calling a 肥仔 in a light-hearted tone and I sort of felt the endearment… like my first instinct was oh mom’s teasing me again, like I didn’t feel offended at all, just annoyed that it become my nickname. If I had to make a comparison: I guess it’s sort of like calling a fat cat a “Chonker”
I wasn’t even that fat by American standards lol, literally at the time, in school there were kids bigger than me in the same grade.
Oh yeah, what about the fat thing? Is it about endearment, or is Chinese culture just ‘edgy’ like that?
Idk. But I remember my mom calling a 肥仔 in a light-hearted tone and I sort of felt the endearment… like my first instinct was oh mom’s teasing me again, like I didn’t feel offended at all, just annoyed that it become my nickname. If I had to make a comparison: I guess it’s sort of like calling a fat cat a “Chonker”
I wasn’t even that fat by American standards lol, literally at the time, in school there were kids bigger than me in the same grade.