>>78872
I'd totally forgotten until this point because I didn't think it really counted as "outing" myself, but I actually have a pretty similar story to this. I was in the Air Force, and during BMT (basic training), there used to be a portion in the second to last week of training called BEAST Week that was basically teaching and simulating skills and situations you might encounter in a deployed environment. This is relevant because instead of the MTIs (drill sergeants), we had "Cadre" that were a lot more laid back and hands-off as long as you didn't fuck up so blatantly that they had to do something about it.
Anyways, that's just background for the situation we were in. I can't remember the specific details of what we were doing, but I remember that I was in my tent with half my flight cleaning or getting ready for something or other and we were "alone," meaning no Cadre, which is rare for BMT except for Saturdays and Sundays. Some of the guys were shooting the shit and the subject of hot celebrities or celebrity crushes or something came up. I mostly stayed focus on the tasks at hand when we had time like this and didn't really engage in those kinds of conversations normally, mostly to not get caught slacking by the MTIs since they were always in the dorms with us, but also because there was a lot of stuff we had to have squared away and I'm generally a slow, methodical worker. Regardless, they were talking, and one of the brought up Megan Fox from the first Transformers movie and how hot she was it in. I usually get a feeling about when someone's about to ask me a question I'm not comfortable answering, and I was right.
They asked me what I thought of her and I answered, "She's too thin," or "She's too skinny," which is true. Fat fetish aside, I have a massive belly button fetish, even bigger than my fat fetish, so I can still appreciate thin women, but even still, I'm not a fan of the super-skinny, hard abs look that was in in the 2000s. I thought the scene where she looks under the hood at the Camaro's engine was hot in that she's showing off her belly button in it, but that look genuinely just isn't my type, even for thinner women who are in shape. Of course, one of the guys I considered a friend immediately jumped on that and said, "Oh, so you like fat chicks, then?" or something to that effect, and the other guys started laughing at me. I just tried to ignore them and go back to what I was doing, but of course, they made fun of me for a little bit. I might've tried to deny it, but that just made it worse. The guy who initially got on me eventually went on to go to tech school (job-specific training) with me and would occasionally tease me for it, even though I insisted I wasn't into fucking fat girls, which is also technically true since I'm not actually into penetrative sex.
In retrospect, I played the whole situation completely wrong, like I kept rolling nat 1s on all my charisma checks. What I should've said instead of talking about her being skinny was that she just wasn't my type and left it at that. Then, when they started teasing me, I should've taken the Walter White, "You got me," approach and played it off like a joke and went along with it, but I've never been good in those situations. When Among Us was big in 2020, I'd always clam up and say the wrong things in situations where I was either telling the truth and couldn't prove it, or someone came to the correct conclusion for the wrong reasons, which is what happened in this situation. To this day, I still don't know if the guy bought my excuses and just kept it up because he knew it annoyed me, or if he knew I was lying and kept doing it because he knew I was lying.
Either way, there it is, so on the off chance one of the guys from my flight was also a closeted fat fetishist who was mentally wiping the sweat from his forehead that I was taking the heat off of him and is lurking in this thread, one, you're welcome, and two, yeah, you did get me, you were right.