I've never read this, but from your writeup, it sounds very realistic. I prefer that children's books be realistic rather than idealistic. Sending the message to overweight little girls that they'll be accepted by everyone, never get teased again and live happily ever after would be lying. And depending on what your definition of "fat" is (are we talking a bit chubby or nearly obese?), I really don't ever want a children's book to exist that sends the message that being very overweight is totally fine. Seeing all the grossly overweight children around today makes me want to cry.
Also, "The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things" by Carolyn Mackler has a fat main character and IIRC it ends fairly happily. You might enjoy that one.
It is realistic that it almost hurts to read to be honest, which is why I can sort of appreciate because it would have been laughably awful if was otherwise. Judy Blume is a good writer after all
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I hope I'm not sounding like attacking you about body issues. I'm just trying to be upfront that me desiring a plump person as a protagonist is of no way at all me of promoting people harming themselves.
That's not a slam on you. I know why you included all that. If you don't, you get people who are "concerned" about your "health," and who feel a need to evangelize about the "eat less, exercise more" mantra.
Oh, don't worry about it. It's cool. I hear you. TBH, you're right, that is why I stated I was healthy. I just do not want to deal with that stuff anymore. It gets so tiring to hear all the fucking time it's like a defense mechanism now. I just want to avoid it like a virus.
I can't say I blame you in the least. I do the same thing, for the same reason, and I'm getting really tired of it. I'm a lot more tired, though, of the hateful comments I get if I leave out the, "See how good I am!" paragraph, or the random derogatory comments I get on the street or at the gym (when I'm goddamn EXERCISING argh), or the pitying looks my husband gets for being stuck with a human balloon.
We're all human, I guess, unless we don't look like the people we like looking at this week.
When I was a young teenager I flipped through this book and thought "No, it sounds really boring." The little bit I read didn't endear me to any of the characters and I didn't find myself feeling much of anything. A good book would make you care a little bit, at least I think so. That's where my ties to it begin and end
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Oh, don't worry about it. It's cool. I hear you. TBH, you're right, that is why I stated I was healthy. I just do not want to deal with that stuff anymore. It gets so tiring to hear all the fucking time it's like a defense mechanism now. I just want to avoid it like a virus.
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We're all human, I guess, unless we don't look like the people we like looking at this week.
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