fat! It's not a curse word!
crymsin_lilly sent this to me. The fat rant. Everyone seeing these words should watch it, but especially, those of you who are size fourteen...or sixteen...or twenty...those of you who maybe feel embarrassed about how much you weigh, and feel the entire world is judging you based on what you carry around under your skin...or take me, for instance, coming down from 6X territory to 5X, to 4X, to whatever X I'm going to end up but I know now I will most likely never be able to shop in non-plus-size stores...and I'm okay with that.
But this response just blew me away. Okay, the original fat rant? Priceless. Most gorgeous statement of intent I've seen in five years. But this man's response to that shared vid...and some of his words in response...
"Beautiful is unique...attractive is different."
"To even have a standard of beauty is to be ignorant."
"To say that one, one standard of beauty relates to everybody..."
"Beauty is not defined by physical attractiveness."
And...
"Joy, thank you for your video. And thanks for putting that out there."
Yeah. Thank you...damn, thank you.
Then Krystle stammered her way through her response, and the way her voice built from shy to strong, towards the end? Worth sitting through the stammering bits where she's desperately shy to hear her gain the confidence.
And the vespaofdeath weighed in with a lovely response--stop using fat as an excuse not to live your life! And again she thanked Joy...
And the cute CandyAndie brings up her polycystic ovarian disorder!! WOOOOO!
christinamariex3 brings up the great point--yeah, we're fat. Yeah, you're gonna notice. Most of the time, if we really want? We can go to the doctor, we can go to the weight clinic, we can get our stomachs stapled, we can get fat sucked and stop eating and do all the unhealthy things...with sufficient funds and medication and the absolute obsession for it? I could be thin, goddamn it.
And all the people who said all the cruel things on all these videos? Kids, you'd still be ugly. Because that ugliness is coming from inside, and that's going to taint everything about you. Me? I can change the way I look. But I'm a beautiful spirit on the inside. No matter what I weigh...I have a personality, I have a brain, I have a wit.
Y'all making hateful comments? Sorry...you're just not pretty.
(Oh, and if you want to hear Christina sing? Go for it.)
This one's a bit rambling, I will admit, but it's got some good points too. She's scattered, she's really scattered, but the one thing that shines through?
Okay, I have this story. One of my best friends at one point was really, really thin. Like, we were afraid to hug her thin, because we might break her. One day, she's bemoaning how fat she is standing in front of her mirror. This tiny little girl. This incredibly narrowed human being.
And I just couldn't stand it. I got up off the bed where I'd been sorting through garb fabric and stood behind her. There was me--a whole lot of me--on one side of Honor, and then there was Honor, and then there was a lot more me.
I put my hands on her shoulders, and met her eyes in the mirror. (I was taller than she was, too, and considering I'm 5'6"? Yeah. Short and diminutively thin.) And I said, "Honor...you're not fat. I'm fat. You're fine."
"No," she says to me. "You're beautiful. I'm fat."
...what the hell do you say to that level of self-delusion??
Shashanounou doesn't have a web cam, so her entry is a slideshow. But it's short and to the goddamn point. Go, Shasha. Plus you get to see her in a bikini. :)
Finally, lilryan speaks out on how it sucks to be at the other end of the spectrum, too! Why the hell not, and yeah, why can't he find size 28 jeans, goddamn it? Clothing industry should be designed for him, but it fails underweight people, too!
I know this from personal experience--my aunt, tiny little bird-woman that she was...five foot nothing and at her heaviest, at her most bemoaning-of-cruel-fate size, she was size 0. Check THAT out. Back in the days when they didn't make size zero clothes, and when she was a dance instructor for Arthur Murray? She had to have clothes specially made, because NO ONE--not domestic, not international, not the House of Dior on a trip to Paris, because she went and asked--made smaller clothes!
Finally...on a completely different note...lemme bring to your attention Spiceboy.
Before you start screaming, and clawing out your eyes, and asking me why I'm torturing you like this...that kid? Spiceboy? In the video? Apparently went to weight-lifting class with crymsin_lilly's oldest son.
Talk about small world syndrome...
(And this? This is just a hysterical rant in general. Hee.)
There's tons of 'em, some good, some bad, but one Joy rules them all. :) Go watch.
But this response just blew me away. Okay, the original fat rant? Priceless. Most gorgeous statement of intent I've seen in five years. But this man's response to that shared vid...and some of his words in response...
"Beautiful is unique...attractive is different."
"To even have a standard of beauty is to be ignorant."
"To say that one, one standard of beauty relates to everybody..."
"Beauty is not defined by physical attractiveness."
And...
"Joy, thank you for your video. And thanks for putting that out there."
Yeah. Thank you...damn, thank you.
Then Krystle stammered her way through her response, and the way her voice built from shy to strong, towards the end? Worth sitting through the stammering bits where she's desperately shy to hear her gain the confidence.
And the vespaofdeath weighed in with a lovely response--stop using fat as an excuse not to live your life! And again she thanked Joy...
And the cute CandyAndie brings up her polycystic ovarian disorder!! WOOOOO!
christinamariex3 brings up the great point--yeah, we're fat. Yeah, you're gonna notice. Most of the time, if we really want? We can go to the doctor, we can go to the weight clinic, we can get our stomachs stapled, we can get fat sucked and stop eating and do all the unhealthy things...with sufficient funds and medication and the absolute obsession for it? I could be thin, goddamn it.
And all the people who said all the cruel things on all these videos? Kids, you'd still be ugly. Because that ugliness is coming from inside, and that's going to taint everything about you. Me? I can change the way I look. But I'm a beautiful spirit on the inside. No matter what I weigh...I have a personality, I have a brain, I have a wit.
Y'all making hateful comments? Sorry...you're just not pretty.
(Oh, and if you want to hear Christina sing? Go for it.)
This one's a bit rambling, I will admit, but it's got some good points too. She's scattered, she's really scattered, but the one thing that shines through?
Okay, I have this story. One of my best friends at one point was really, really thin. Like, we were afraid to hug her thin, because we might break her. One day, she's bemoaning how fat she is standing in front of her mirror. This tiny little girl. This incredibly narrowed human being.
And I just couldn't stand it. I got up off the bed where I'd been sorting through garb fabric and stood behind her. There was me--a whole lot of me--on one side of Honor, and then there was Honor, and then there was a lot more me.
I put my hands on her shoulders, and met her eyes in the mirror. (I was taller than she was, too, and considering I'm 5'6"? Yeah. Short and diminutively thin.) And I said, "Honor...you're not fat. I'm fat. You're fine."
"No," she says to me. "You're beautiful. I'm fat."
...what the hell do you say to that level of self-delusion??
Shashanounou doesn't have a web cam, so her entry is a slideshow. But it's short and to the goddamn point. Go, Shasha. Plus you get to see her in a bikini. :)
Finally, lilryan speaks out on how it sucks to be at the other end of the spectrum, too! Why the hell not, and yeah, why can't he find size 28 jeans, goddamn it? Clothing industry should be designed for him, but it fails underweight people, too!
I know this from personal experience--my aunt, tiny little bird-woman that she was...five foot nothing and at her heaviest, at her most bemoaning-of-cruel-fate size, she was size 0. Check THAT out. Back in the days when they didn't make size zero clothes, and when she was a dance instructor for Arthur Murray? She had to have clothes specially made, because NO ONE--not domestic, not international, not the House of Dior on a trip to Paris, because she went and asked--made smaller clothes!
Finally...on a completely different note...lemme bring to your attention Spiceboy.
Before you start screaming, and clawing out your eyes, and asking me why I'm torturing you like this...that kid? Spiceboy? In the video? Apparently went to weight-lifting class with crymsin_lilly's oldest son.
Talk about small world syndrome...
(And this? This is just a hysterical rant in general. Hee.)
There's tons of 'em, some good, some bad, but one Joy rules them all. :) Go watch.