Thread by @marccold

I was reading a book last night where the narrator, a computer that is able to access all official information, gives the weight (and other vital stats) of every attractive woman who appears in the narrative

and they're all described as weighing less than a hundred pounds

now, are there a lot of women who weigh less than a hundred pounds? yes! but I'm a little disturbed that this is the description of literally every young woman in the book

I suspect the author just thinks that over a hundred pounds sounds fat, even if you're 5'7" (which a lot of these women are)

this is a self-pub, it looks like, and I'm comforting myself by thinking that if he'd gone the trad-pub route, someone would have mentioned this to him

but maybe not