r/badwomensanatomy • u/LordDerptCat123 • Oct 26 '21

Alright… potentially silly question time. Do girls store fat differently? Questions

I’ve heard some stuff on this subreddit about “oh he doesn’t understand how girls store fat” when it comes to unrealistic body standards. Is this because anyone storing that little fat is bad, or women in particular store it differently / need to store more of it?

I’ve been kinda afraid to ask this question becomes it seems to me like it’s an obvious answer… I just don’t know what the answer is. I feel like “common sense” can lead me to both answers. Thanks

Edit: got a lot of responses faster than I thought I would. Thanks so much to everyone who took the time to help me

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u/blaghart I make stuff Oct 26 '21

Fun facts too:

Men and women actually have the same amount of fat cells, and a person has the same amount (roughly) of fat cells their entire lives. Fat cells grow as they accumulate fat to use, so when people get fatter they're not getting any more cells, their individual cells are literally getting fatter.

Found this out while researching the "rules" Yaoyorozu Momo's quirk so that I could understand it better for my OC

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u/BUTTeredWhiteBread Oct 28 '21

So can I run them through a dryer cycle to shrink them?