My husband is an amateur pastry chef. One day, he brought me a plate with a Napoleon on it (a layered delight involving puff pastry, chocolate and cream). I nommed it, and said something like, "It's a good thing you don't mind a 300-pound wife."
He said, without a beat: "Are you kidding? This is how you GET... no, wait... this is how you EARN a 300-pound wife!"
Awww! So cute! I get some of that too, because I also work with kids.
The kids are learning English for the first time. In grade one, they learn the word "fat". I no longer teach grade one, but I always know when that lesson occurs, because I get swarmed with kids who are SO EXCITED to use their new word. It's funny, because it's not mean spirited at all. The children run up to me, call me fat, then stand there fully expecting to be praised for speaking English so well.
The fifth graders learn the word chubby. I also know when this word is taught, although I've never taught fifth grade. They are told that "chubby" means fat, but fat is a mean word and makes people sad, and chubby is a nice word that makes people happy. Thus, I get a lot of fifth graders coming up to me to say things like, "Hello teacher. I think you are not fat. You are chubby!"
Very cute -- though I see how this could be a problem should the kids ever encounter a random foreigner on the street and feel like sharing.
While none of them have ever explicitly commented on my weight, I've always gotten "you're so pretty." "Mommy she's beautiful." from little kids, and I always smile because they haven't hit the age yet where they're socialized to hate on fat people.
A friend's three-year-old looked at me, puzzled, one day, and asked "Why is your heiny so big?" "Because I'm a biiiiiig lady!" I replied. "With a big heart to match" her mom said. I thought that was just amazing!
i don't blame you for being upset. i always get upset when i allow myself to read comments on things where FA or anything that has a general "fat is ok" message in it.
I'm going to track this post, because I think it's an awesome idea to share stories. And personal stories where fat=awesome are fantastic. your story is fantastic as well. Your mum gets total snaps from me.
As for my positive story... hmm... well, sadly I'm nowhere near getting my family to be fat accepting... which is kind of funny because we're most of us fat and most of us pretty damn healthy, but whatevs. However, whenever I think I might be getting my Dad to start coming around, which makes me happy. Also, when my brother was younger, he used to grab my arm and use it as a pillow, and he'd say that he liked my arm because it's comfortable. That used to make me smile.
Our bed is on it's last legs and I'm wondering what a sleep experience on a Tempurpedic bed is? Are they are worth the cost? My boyfriend loved his old memory foam mattress topper we used until it ripped and we had to throw it away. I wasn't a fan because I felt I would "sink" and felt "stuck" when I tried to turn over at night. (But ironically it is those properties that helped in the boudoir. He hates our regular mattress because his knees keep slipping.) I was leaning more towards a sleep number bed instead. What's your experience on a Tempurpedic?
I've never tried a sleep number bed, so I have no comparison, but we used to have a traditional mattress, and it sort of did that thing where you both rolled into the middle. It drove us nuts
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My husband is an amateur pastry chef. One day, he brought me a plate with a Napoleon on it (a layered delight involving puff pastry, chocolate and cream). I nommed it, and said something like, "It's a good thing you don't mind a 300-pound wife."
He said, without a beat: "Are you kidding? This is how you GET... no, wait... this is how you EARN a 300-pound wife!"
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The kids are learning English for the first time. In grade one, they learn the word "fat". I no longer teach grade one, but I always know when that lesson occurs, because I get swarmed with kids who are SO EXCITED to use their new word. It's funny, because it's not mean spirited at all. The children run up to me, call me fat, then stand there fully expecting to be praised for speaking English so well.
The fifth graders learn the word chubby. I also know when this word is taught, although I've never taught fifth grade. They are told that "chubby" means fat, but fat is a mean word and makes people sad, and chubby is a nice word that makes people happy. Thus, I get a lot of fifth graders coming up to me to say things like, "Hello teacher. I think you are not fat. You are chubby!"
Very cute -- though I see how this could be a problem should the kids ever encounter a random foreigner on the street and feel like sharing.
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While none of them have ever explicitly commented on my weight, I've always gotten "you're so pretty." "Mommy she's beautiful." from little kids, and I always smile because they haven't hit the age yet where they're socialized to hate on fat people.
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I'm going to track this post, because I think it's an awesome idea to share stories. And personal stories where fat=awesome are fantastic. your story is fantastic as well. Your mum gets total snaps from me.
As for my positive story... hmm... well, sadly I'm nowhere near getting my family to be fat accepting... which is kind of funny because we're most of us fat and most of us pretty damn healthy, but whatevs. However, whenever I think I might be getting my Dad to start coming around, which makes me happy. Also, when my brother was younger, he used to grab my arm and use it as a pillow, and he'd say that he liked my arm because it's comfortable. That used to make me smile.
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Our bed is on it's last legs and I'm wondering what a sleep experience on a Tempurpedic bed is? Are they are worth the cost? My boyfriend loved his old memory foam mattress topper we used until it ripped and we had to throw it away. I wasn't a fan because I felt I would "sink" and felt "stuck" when I tried to turn over at night. (But ironically it is those properties that helped in the boudoir. He hates our regular mattress because his knees keep slipping.) I was leaning more towards a sleep number bed instead. What's your experience on a Tempurpedic?
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