Looking forward to more posts…

I have the notion from time to time to either turn my blog into the exact antithesis to the Shapely Prose(mocking it with a similar look and title), or to make a new one.

I usually conclude that I don’t have as much time as they do to put into it, so I wouldn’t do it justice.

I found you from “My Fat Spouse”, by the way.

There IS such a thing as being “too fat” to be healthy and there is such a thing as being “too skinny” to be healthy.
But there is no such thing as being too fat or too skinny to be human. Where there is politics and rage there should be common sense and compassion. I’m so dismayed about this.

When I first ran into the FA movement a few days ago I thought what I was seeing was a movement about acceptance of larger frames and smaller frames in balance. I have a wider bone structure.. what is a healthy “size” for me may not be healthy for the next person and by healthy I mean balanced and sustained by a reasonable diet and moderate exercise.

We do need to challenge the unrealistic expectations of pullpushing and the fashion industry.. but not like this. For them you will never be skinny enough because if you are you will stop buying their products.. for the FA movement you are discouraged from trying to lose weight because if you do then you arn’t supporting their politics and views.

Always be wary of people silencing your speech and censoring you because whenever they do it, it’s never because of your best interests but because of their agenda.

And the way Aunt Fattie explained that they wanted a “safe place” … and that they are fully within their rights to discriminate based on size … that is disgusting!

I happen to be part of the underweight crowd and in no way do I hang out with people that are larger to improve my own self-esteem. If my friends - ANY of my friends - treated me like that it would be pretty obvious that they were not really my friends. Um, hello?
Friends are supposed to be friendly. (xD)
Not backstabbing bitches.
/end rant.

While I agree that pissing people off is a lot of fun and I love doing it, I would never sacrifice my health to make a point. I’d rather be healthy and happy and be able to give them the snub they deserve when I’ve reached their standard of “beauty” as opposed to sitting there like a sullen spoiled child refusing to do anything until someone validated me.

I all agree with middle class fat women not being a victim, but let’s not forget that fat people get bullied for real and for no other reason. If that’s not true, explain how sitting in a bus make you offensive to someone until he start saying to his friend ‘Hey look how ugly the girl is in seat #’! Why someone completly different kept screaming ‘here comes the fat blond’ each time I got near him?

I start losing weight when people stop making fun of me. Then I was more confident and, it’s a cycle, start losing weight and it made me more and more confident. You don’t really feel like making effort for others when you hate them so I had to wait until I met people I wanted to be beautiful and healty for.

I agree 1000000% with this statement. Paying for two airplane seats because your ass eclipses the allotted space =/= being tied to a fence and bludgeoned to death in a freezing Wyoming winter or being dragged to death behind a pick-up truck in Texas.

I know that wanting to be skinny can cause problems too, such as depression, when you cannot lose the weight you’d like to loose, or even anorexia and such. So I do think it’s wonderful if people can accept themselves the way they are and love themselves the way they are, but that doesn’t mean that there’s never room for improvement. You can love yourself, even if you are overweight, but if the doctor tells you that you might get diabetes or such and you decide not to do something about it, then you don’t really love yourself that much after all.

So, really guys, this is a great idea. Someone has to stop those people putting ignorant and absurd thoughts into the minds of our younger ones (because especially teenagers and such suffer from being teased for being too fat, and they are easiy influenced), because we all know that serious overweight is just as dangerous as anorexia.