My body... is mine, to do with as I please. Now, maybe sometimes I'll ask people for advice/help about how to do things with it; but if I haven't asked I don't want you getting your nose in my shit telling me what to do with it.
Worrying converse of the "good fatty should be eating healthy and exercising and then it's okay to be fat" thing? I lucked into a body that hangs around a socially acceptable size and shape even if I don't pay much attention to it, and one of my psych meds suppresses my appetite so it's even MORE like the conventional notion of pretty, so I have remarkably little incentive to "eat right and exercise," and I'm a lazy fuck who eats like crap a lot of the time - five a day fruits and vegetables? PLEASE, I count it a good day if I don't decide that cheesy poofs are exactly what I need for lunch - so I'm probably trashing my health, all the while "looking" healthy. I get a lot less shit from the public in general, which is a privilege and I know it. Somewhere down the road, I'm probably going to regret it. But hell YEAH I want some cheesy poofs.
Adding more hate to the universe isn't going to help. Bodies exist, and no comment from a stranger is going to be adequate. You never know when your comment is shoring up an eating disorder or telling a kid she should weigh fifty pounds until she's out of high school. I tell students it's better to be fat than anorexic, and I will back that up with data if I need to. I haven't been in a health class discussing this yet-- I sub-- but if I am, you'd better believe I will interrupt as necessary.
I haven't (yet) seen this POS circulating on Facebook, but if/when I do, this will probably be a better rebuttal than "Fuck off and die, you fucking assholes."
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My body... is mine, to do with as I please. Now, maybe sometimes I'll ask people for advice/help about how to do things with it; but if I haven't asked I don't want you getting your nose in my shit telling me what to do with it.
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Worrying converse of the "good fatty should be eating healthy and exercising and then it's okay to be fat" thing? I lucked into a body that hangs around a socially acceptable size and shape even if I don't pay much attention to it, and one of my psych meds suppresses my appetite so it's even MORE like the conventional notion of pretty, so I have remarkably little incentive to "eat right and exercise," and I'm a lazy fuck who eats like crap a lot of the time - five a day fruits and vegetables? PLEASE, I count it a good day if I don't decide that cheesy poofs are exactly what I need for lunch - so I'm probably trashing my health, all the while "looking" healthy. I get a lot less shit from the public in general, which is a privilege and I know it. Somewhere down the road, I'm probably going to regret it. But hell YEAH I want some cheesy poofs.
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I haven't (yet) seen this POS circulating on Facebook, but if/when I do, this will probably be a better rebuttal than "Fuck off and die, you fucking assholes."
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