Shaming Fat People
July 27th 2010 12:15
Tried to post this as a comment on the Herald/Age's Beauty Beat blog, but the Add a Comment is not working.
Hmmm. I've been fat, thin, and just about everything in between. At 7 kilos over my recommended weight, I consider myself 'curvy'. (I'm 46, gimme a break.) I have, however, bought a scale with the aim of shaving off those pesky additional kilos.
Comments re Natasha's Beauty Beat blog post re Weight
I read these comments while eating my dinner--5 whole-grain crackers topped with Greek feta cheese, a raw carrot, and two sticks of celery. Lunch was sushi. No breakfast. 5 sweet biscuits during the day--there's my weakness. I have a choice--give up the biscuits, or up the exercise.
I have been publicly insulted over my weight. It was usually younger men in groups (and of Mediterranean ethnicity) who felt entitled to yell insults at me. This happened when I was fatter than I am now, but ALSO happened when I was thinner! I was cycling 40k's a week and well within a healthy range. A young woman out on the town called me a "whale"--something about a fit woman on a bicycle offended her. Around the same time, I was called a 'fat slob' by a wanker cyclist on an expensive bike. He was out of breath and ridiculously dressed up in lycra that hugged his fat rolls.
I was recently un-friended by a high school friend who has become fat (he has also become a prickly queen), because I posted that fat people are fat because they eat too much and exercise too little. He claims to be a helpless sufferer of 'food addiction'.
I have three sets of clothes--Fat, Thin, and In-Between.
I have a morbidly obese cousin. (The causes are both genetic and lifestyle-related) He and his teenaged son (also extremely overweight) have started a vegan diet and are going to the gym together.
So. My point? Education is good. Deluding yourself about your weight is bad. Insulting other people about their weight is SO DAMNED RUDE!
Hmmm. I've been fat, thin, and just about everything in between. At 7 kilos over my recommended weight, I consider myself 'curvy'. (I'm 46, gimme a break.) I have, however, bought a scale with the aim of shaving off those pesky additional kilos.
Comments re Natasha's Beauty Beat blog post re Weight
I read these comments while eating my dinner--5 whole-grain crackers topped with Greek feta cheese, a raw carrot, and two sticks of celery. Lunch was sushi. No breakfast. 5 sweet biscuits during the day--there's my weakness. I have a choice--give up the biscuits, or up the exercise.
I have been publicly insulted over my weight. It was usually younger men in groups (and of Mediterranean ethnicity) who felt entitled to yell insults at me. This happened when I was fatter than I am now, but ALSO happened when I was thinner! I was cycling 40k's a week and well within a healthy range. A young woman out on the town called me a "whale"--something about a fit woman on a bicycle offended her. Around the same time, I was called a 'fat slob' by a wanker cyclist on an expensive bike. He was out of breath and ridiculously dressed up in lycra that hugged his fat rolls.
I was recently un-friended by a high school friend who has become fat (he has also become a prickly queen), because I posted that fat people are fat because they eat too much and exercise too little. He claims to be a helpless sufferer of 'food addiction'.
I have three sets of clothes--Fat, Thin, and In-Between.
I have a morbidly obese cousin. (The causes are both genetic and lifestyle-related) He and his teenaged son (also extremely overweight) have started a vegan diet and are going to the gym together.
So. My point? Education is good. Deluding yourself about your weight is bad. Insulting other people about their weight is SO DAMNED RUDE!
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