Dear Cr-Abby from Medium-Sized in California

WOMAN IS RELUCTANT BENCHMARK FOR CO-WORKER LOSING WEIGHT
DEAR CR-ABBY: I need some advice on how to handle a delicate situation at work because it's starting to get to me.
One of my co-workers, "Vicki," is overweight. She has been dieting and having some success with it. I support her efforts and am happy for her. However, she constantly makes comments to and about me. I often hear her comparing our looks, and I have heard her saying that we wear the same size. Cr-Abby, we don't.
As with many women, I struggle to maintain a positive body image. Vicki's constant comparisons are now shaking my confidence. It is the persistence of her remarks that is getting to me. I don't understand why she feels it is appropriate to comment on my body, size or looks. I didn't ask to be used as a benchmark for her weight loss. Should I say something or keep quiet? -- MEDIUM-SIZED IN CALIFORNIA

Dear Don't Play Limbo in LA,

Despite your women's perceptions as to the huge range of sizes there are really a finite amount of possibilities.Therefore, if and when Jumbo condenses her girth to fit your frame, you are not diminished nor have you increased.

Her myopia aside, your vunerability to her comments is as much an idictment as to your achilles heel as it is to her lack of ability to accurately measure.

This lack of measurement acumen is not women's faults it is us men who have perpetrated a bad frame of reference which impacts your ability to "size up someone" accurately.

For centuries males have claimed that _________________> is 6 inches.
Lighten Up (figuratively and figure wise),

Cr-Abby