Ashley ([info]prophet_maid) wrote,
@ 2009-01-07 13:01:00
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I hate fat hate so damn much, and it's so pervasive it disgusts me.

Today, a woman wrote a letter to the local paper stating, literally, that all people larger than a size 6 (the "overweight") are stupid and lazy.

Shockingly, I responded. Magnanimously, if I might say, though I really wanted to call her a bigoted, paranoid bitch.

I've picked up several new readers in the last few months; here's a hint, in case you were unaware. I will not put up with fat hate. Period.

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[info]bookofmirrors
2009-01-08 06:48 pm UTC (link)
Woooooooow. That's fucked up.

I'm overweight (see icon), but underneath it all, I really am big-boned. At my thinnest as an adult, at what any chart would have told you was a perfectly "health and normal" weight for me, I was a size 12.

People amaze me.

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[info]prophet_maid
2009-01-08 06:59 pm UTC (link)
Fat hate is pretty rampant in general, and I see a lot of it in this community. The obesity panic certainly makes it worse.

The letter writer in question didn't explicitly state clothing sizes, like I did. She did say "overweight" and "obese," and used them mostly interchangeably. Of course, weight has pretty much nothing to do with health, and I was "overweight" when I wore a size 8, and now at a pre-pregnancy size 12 I'm "obese". There's this huge misconception that "obese"=so fat you can't walk, weighing 400 pounds, eating all the time, and totally sedentary, when the label equally applies to a woman who eats significantly below the FDA caloric recommendations, gets a decent amount of exercise, and is simply dense (myself). I'm by no means ashamed of being obese, but I don't think anyone in their right mind could call me 'disgustingly fat and liable to keel over from being so damn fat' 'oozing out of my clothes' etc. that I've heard people use to describe ALL obese.

I am obese, and I'm damn normal. Hell, I'm statistically average. And I sure as fuck have better things to do with my time than starve myself and devote my life to losing weight.

You know, like growing another person :)

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