You aren't fat, dammit!

She is very vocal about this too.
"I'm depressed, I'm fat",
"I'm getting fat",
"Look at all this fat!!" (as she pulls up her shirt to reveal a perfect stomach)

She can be told a thousand times that she's not. A supermodel could come out of a limo and tell her that she wishes she had her body and she will still focus like a laser on that time last year when she went home for a holiday and her sister told her that her arms had gotten a little bigger.

She may say something about how she was thinner in high school. Nearly everyone was thinner in high school. Often times sickly thin. Most guys don't want a girl that they can grab around the waist with one hand and do arm curls with. Just because someone weighs a little more now doesn't mean that they have become fat.

There are a few reasons I can think of why a woman would complain about being fat when she's not:
1. She is insecure and wants to be told that she is not fat to reassure herself. This is probably the most common reason. Basically, she wants to make herself feel better at the expense of annoying some local male. She can solve this by growing an ego. Not easy, but doable.
2. She is doing it to attract attention to her body because she knows she's beautiful. If she is actually good looking and doesn't mind me staring at her body, I don't mind this too much. However, it should probably be prevented as to avoid falling into category 3.
3. She actually believes she's fat. She's probably used to be in category 1 or 2 but has called herself fat so many times that she actually believes it. It's been repeated so often for her own selfish reasons that it has become a permanent fixture in her brain. This too can be fixed, but it would take much time and would probably never actually happen.

However, in all its futility, I will try this one more time. Maybe one of you out there will actually believe it. You AREN'T fat, damnit!. I don't lie when I say it, those that are fat tend to not ask. But I wouldn't lie to them either if they did. Now please find a better thing to whine about, like how I can't read your mind.

But I think I've stumbled on the answer. Certain women feel bad when they think of themselves as fat... but they get temporary relief when someone tells them that they look fine. I propose that we start telling women, right to their face, that they're fat. Not just sometimes, and not just the overly obsessed ones, all women, all the time. Sure, they'll feel real bad at first, but eventually it'll hurt so much that they'll learn to deal with it. They'll stop caring. Humans (just like all life-forms) are designed to adapt to their environments: if you give them two opposing truths ( "you should look like this" vs "you look beautiful the way you are"), they won't know which one is true, and which one they should integrate into their lifestyle and worldview, so they'll unhealthfully oscillate back and forth between the two extremes. If you give them a definite truth ("food and shelter are necessary", "people who commit crimes go to jail", "you are fat and there's nothing you can do about it"), they'll accept it and not try to fight it until they're presented with a different point of view ("I can commit crime and not get caught").

So since we obviously can't exert any influence over the media, the only point of view for us to eliminate is that women aren't fat. We can even make up some scientific studies demonstrating that women are genetically predisposed to being fat. And we won't say that being fat is bad -- just that every woman weighs more than the average. And they'll remove the badness they project onto it all by themselves.

And if you're opposed to this idea, it's just because you know that if women start being happy with their image, they won't spend so much time and effort trying to make themselves look like supermodels, and you won't have as much eyecandy. You chauvinistic, sexist swine.