{{{{{{{{{{Helen}}}}}}}}}}

How inexcusably rude! I've been saying this for years - there is one form
of prejudice, intolerance and discrimination that it's still perfectly OK
for people to display - prejudice against large people (I won't even say
overweight because if you're fit and healthy then what you weigh may be just
right for your body type and you're not overweight at all!).

I *have* been overweight my entire life until this March when I had gastric
bypass surgery (I had this strictly for medical reasons - high blood
pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides, heart murmur, pre-diabetic condition,
possible joint replacements needed, etc.). I lost 100 pounds and it did
make all my medical problems go away (I was not supposed to weigh what I
weighed for my body type). However, I had no idea how it would change how
people treated me.

I take no credit in losing all that weight, my surgeon did all the work (I
do exercise a lot, but I always liked to exercise, I just couldn't at my
weight), but people keep congratulating me like I'd won the lottery. They
tell me how good I look - well no, I don't look good, I'm 53 and just lost
100 pounds in the last 8 months and my skin is pooling around my ankles - I
look like a Sherpe! But thinner is *supposed* to look better even when in
reality it doesn't.

I'd like to see what would happen if a television show made fun of a member
of an ethnic minority like they make fun of large people. I'd like to see
what would happen if employers discriminated against a member of an ethnic
minority like they discriminate against large people. It's horrible and it
has to stop because it's killing people. That right, killing people. Our
young women are literally starving themselves to death to try to look like
some model who is 5'10" and weighs 100 pounds. When did this "look" become
so sought-after. To me they look horrendous with their hip bones and ribs
sticking out. Do you realize that if Marilyn Monroe were around today she
would be considered fat!!????

Oh my, I just looked at the length of this post - this is one of my favorite
rants, so I get carried away. But I do think this is a very serious issue.

Hugs,

CatNipped



"dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers" wrote in
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My pet peeve, though, are the people who, dripping with
self-righteousness,
have to comment on the shopping cart contents of anyone who's a little
fatter than skeletal. "You don't really *need* that, do you dear?"
they'll
say, pointing to any high-calorie item. Seriously, there ARE people who
are that rude!

I am not slim. I am overweight. I am fat. The other week was the cycling
club
annual dinner & award ceremony, which I had to be at as I'm racing
secretary
and had organised the trophies, engravings, medals and the production of
the
programme for the event (my printer had been working overtime, as had I).

Whilst at the dinner, in the middle of the main course, a person told me
about
how, if I wanted to stay slim & healthy like him, I should not eat a meal
such
as the one on the plate... the fact is, he had exactly the same on his
plate as
me, which he was eating... a couple of other people, during the evening,
made
comment about how if I want to be healthy, I should be eating A, not
eating B,
doing C, not doing D. Did I ask these people for their advice? No, they
simply
felt it was perfectly acceptable to tell me how so much better they are
than me
with the "If you want to be slim like me..." I resisted the retort of
"There
*is* one thing fatter than my arse in this room, and it's your mouth.",
but god
knows how. Is my eating anything eating causing them to get cancer due to
"passive eating"??? No. I may not be slim, and I can cycle 100 miles on a
bike,
but hey, aren't we fat people supposed to be lazy, good-for-nothing couch
potatoes who do nothing but lie on a sofa all day feeding our faces with
chocolates as we have no sense of self-control or self-worth?? How dare we
inflict ourselves on the outside world!!

BAH!

MInor rant over, normal service is now resumed (until the next rant,
anyway)

Cheers, helen s ;-)



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