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yakalskovich) wrote2010-08-06 12:51 am
yakalskovich) wrote2010-08-06 12:51 am
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I am blogging stuff like crazy today...
... but as the Little Lady has gone home, I'm catching up with my usual life.
I liked this article about how repressed we are, today, compared to the sixties. Especially about the duty to be healthy at other people's standards.
I guess that's why fat people, and especially those of us into fat acceptance as a cultural and political movement, get so much hate thrown at them: - we walk around brazenly denying our society's cardinal virtue, 'health' (as defined by other people's rigid standards). You can smoke or drink or bonk in secret; you can't be secretly fat. And if you're not walking the walk and talking the talk of 'OMG I must lose weight I am gross and so unhealthy!!1!1eleventy-one!!', we are really dangerous rebels.
People can see us having fun and might fall off the wagon peer pressure has put them on, no matter what it is about for them personally. Others, who have perfected their self-repression in the name of health, just hate us for very visibly scorning, ignoring or plain old despising something they use up all their spoons for.
I liked this article about how repressed we are, today, compared to the sixties. Especially about the duty to be healthy at other people's standards.
I guess that's why fat people, and especially those of us into fat acceptance as a cultural and political movement, get so much hate thrown at them: - we walk around brazenly denying our society's cardinal virtue, 'health' (as defined by other people's rigid standards). You can smoke or drink or bonk in secret; you can't be secretly fat. And if you're not walking the walk and talking the talk of 'OMG I must lose weight I am gross and so unhealthy!!1!1eleventy-one!!', we are really dangerous rebels.
People can see us having fun and might fall off the wagon peer pressure has put them on, no matter what it is about for them personally. Others, who have perfected their self-repression in the name of health, just hate us for very visibly scorning, ignoring or plain old despising something they use up all their spoons for.
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In nutrition class our professor explained that some people are like that. They can't lose or gain because their body has set an "ideal weight" to maintain. I guess mine's forever set around 150lbs because I can't budge much under it. I could go over, and have gone over, but then it's difficult to keep up while chasing the three year old monstrosity!
All in all, I now tell people that I am in shape - round is a shape. I've learned to be content with who I am for all that I am and anybody that thinks otherwise can kiss my egotistical ass :)
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And yes, round is definitely a shape.-
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**follows you back**
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I don't want to tell anybody to stop their dieting bullshit and do that instead; that would be self-righteous. But I felt mean, knowing about it, feeling so liberated after decades of matter-of-course self-repression (that was of course not working at all) and not showing my flist that it exists so they have a choice.-
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Am I going to have to join tumblr too to keep up with you?
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As for the 60% more woman -- it's natural for a person to gain weight over the years, especially a woman who had kids. Modern standards just don't allow us to be natural any more.
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