Suffered mainly by females and gay stereotypes. A disease shared by all of the female characters in Desperate Housewives,
Grey'
s Anatomy and Bones, just to mention some. In real life, a patient with SBS rarely reach the age of forty, as the people around them tend to
kill them off. The symptoms include:
- Nagging about teir tragic lovelives
- Manipulating other women's husbands in order to feed their own insatiable need for approval
- Blackmailing other women in order to be the queen of the hill
- Living on a diet consisting of mainly nothing, diet
coke and some artsy-farsty coffee drink. It never fails.
- Being bitchy
- Being generally hysterical
- Being a blast at parties by bitching and say things
like "I don't eat sugar/snacks/filth like that" into the host/hostess' face
- Control issues.
Oh,
man.
- Excessive visible-
bone flaunting
- Competing at everything and to everyone
- Staring bug-eyed at someone w the nerve to eat a Twizzler or bear claw in their presence
- Considering people over size of 00 to be subhuman
- The most common topics of conversation would be ramblings
like these: "the
baby, my lovelife, my life is complicated, i want to wait" and blah blah blah.
If you want to heal an SBS-patient in your circle, there is only one cure. You need a pair of boxing mitts, a cattle prod and some elbow
grease. You do the
math.
In fiction: (This is the digest, people. In real life the display of SBS is much more understated and takes time to discover)
SBS-patient (A glamorous FBI-agent, lawyer, surgeon) to a male model-like colleague: "You'
re smart, I'm pretty. I want your sperm because I can't have a
baby with someone whose not as perfect as me. Its selfish not to have a
baby. My
baby's gonna be a doctor, no matter what. And
beautiful. Or else I'll just not give a dang about it. But I can't be in a relationship with you because my life is too complicated. Of course."
Narrator out of nowhere: This, folks, is a classic display of Skinny Bitch Syndrome!
In real life:
Hostess: How was the souffle, guys?
Other friends: Absolutely scrumptious!
SBS-
friend: "I really couldn't say. I'M on a diet." *looks smugly down on her untouched dessert*