First time I ever actually heard "genetics" used as an excuse IRL I'm a member of an all-women group. We get together and talk about fitness and nutrition and being body positive (at a healthy size - we thin, active ladies still have some body insecurities). We had a fat woman come to a recent meeting. We got into a discussion about how all shapes are different, in the sense of some of us have longer legs, some of us have wide hips, like actual differences in skeletal structures (again, this is a fitness-based group, so we're all normal sized people). This fat woman pipes up and says "genetics play a part in some of us carrying more weight". I almost left the room. I've never actually heard that excuse used in real life. The group leader quickly followed with something like "yes, women have more fatty tissue than men" which is accurate, and brushed off the fat woman's comment. Later, we were talking about not overtraining or pushing our bodies too hard and whatnot, and the ham piped up and said she's not an athlete, so how can she apply this to her life. Trainer lady said "well, you work out, right?" Ham lady says "actually no, I've been injured for about a year." I could almost feel the annoyance rolling off some of the others in the room. Why even come to a fitness-based group if you're not into fitness? tl;dr Two excuses in a span of 45 minutes! Do I win a prize?