Why I dislike discussing my weight with other people
The World Cup is OVER, people. Now it's back to me, even if Zidane is going to go round appearing on national TV to complain about Materazzi--Oh, that naughty, NAUGHTY boy...
OK. I know, I know. Now it's back to me until when I say so:
RE: Why I dislike discussing my weight with other people
I am a fifteen year old Chinese girl am I'm on the short and fat side of society. I'm pretty used to this and I accept it:
1) I don't go clothes shopping in places like ESPRIT where Fat People Really Aren't Allowed To Shop in the illusion that "if I just lose a couple of pounds, I WILL fit these clothes and I WILL look as good or even better than all my skinny classmates." No, I'm not like that.
2) I'm not anorexic and never will be. I'm big-boned and gain weight very easily. Anyway, I think it's stupid, vain and irrational. I get annoyed at anorexic people, especially if they're self-pitying and emo like the ones in all those children's storybooks that basically tell IMPRESSIONABLE young girls like me that " anorexia is B-A-D BAD. U MUST LUFF URSELF". Yup. That's about how MORONIC they are.
3) What else? Hmm. I hate exercise?
However, I do get annoyed whenever people react to my weight.
Some of them, I suspect, treat it like a bloody joke when I having trouble squeezing through the aisles at school and ask my classmates to kindly tilt their chairs up a little higher.
Some of them don't bother to hide their utter shock at how much I'm eating or how large my clothes are. Fortunately, this does not happen very often.
Worse still is when people becoming condescending/start pitying me. When I get comfortable, I'm pretty nonchalant about my size (the pain only comes when I'm out shopping for clothes with my mother, I'll tell you this a little later on--down). So I say something like: "oh, dear god I'm fat. That's why I can't eat too much" to explain (This happened when I was trying to lose enough weight to get out of my school's compulsory twice-a-week weight-loss boot camp) why I'm only eating two slices of bread for recess.
This is when my friends/accquaintances (can't tell them apart no more these days) say stuff like: "Oh, you're not FAT, I'm fat, I eat five times a day", all the while making no effort to hide their stick thinness. I dislike that. Do they think I'm stupid? And will it make things any better? No.
Yet, I dislike it when people make rude comments about my weight or even say: You're fat. This is because I don't know why they're saying it. The INTENTION largely characterizes the ACT.
BUT: I'm not on the other side of this fat-thin camp. I don't make FAT/LOSER an identity that I can LOVE/SEEK COMFORT from. I don't say that "Big is Beautiful"--I love beautiful people (Botticelli's women and suchlike, not so much of the Gwen Stefani variety) and they're ALL SLIM, let me tell you that (although not SKINNY).
To all fatties out there: DON'T DO THIS TO YOURSELF, DON'T LET OPRAH (YEAH, the oprah winfrey) TRICK YOU. DON'T READ BOOKS LIKE THESE: Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding My Self http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767912926/ref=pd_cp_b_title/002-8892279-7692001?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155.
Appreciate, love, celebrate beauty.
And don't hate men just because they like their women thin, they can't help it (don't campaign for men to love fatsos, they might just turn gay from all that trauma).
OK. I know, I know. Now it's back to me until when I say so:
RE: Why I dislike discussing my weight with other people
I am a fifteen year old Chinese girl am I'm on the short and fat side of society. I'm pretty used to this and I accept it:
1) I don't go clothes shopping in places like ESPRIT where Fat People Really Aren't Allowed To Shop in the illusion that "if I just lose a couple of pounds, I WILL fit these clothes and I WILL look as good or even better than all my skinny classmates." No, I'm not like that.
2) I'm not anorexic and never will be. I'm big-boned and gain weight very easily. Anyway, I think it's stupid, vain and irrational. I get annoyed at anorexic people, especially if they're self-pitying and emo like the ones in all those children's storybooks that basically tell IMPRESSIONABLE young girls like me that " anorexia is B-A-D BAD. U MUST LUFF URSELF". Yup. That's about how MORONIC they are.
3) What else? Hmm. I hate exercise?
However, I do get annoyed whenever people react to my weight.
Some of them, I suspect, treat it like a bloody joke when I having trouble squeezing through the aisles at school and ask my classmates to kindly tilt their chairs up a little higher.
Some of them don't bother to hide their utter shock at how much I'm eating or how large my clothes are. Fortunately, this does not happen very often.
Worse still is when people becoming condescending/start pitying me. When I get comfortable, I'm pretty nonchalant about my size (the pain only comes when I'm out shopping for clothes with my mother, I'll tell you this a little later on--down). So I say something like: "oh, dear god I'm fat. That's why I can't eat too much" to explain (This happened when I was trying to lose enough weight to get out of my school's compulsory twice-a-week weight-loss boot camp) why I'm only eating two slices of bread for recess.
This is when my friends/accquaintances (can't tell them apart no more these days) say stuff like: "Oh, you're not FAT, I'm fat, I eat five times a day", all the while making no effort to hide their stick thinness. I dislike that. Do they think I'm stupid? And will it make things any better? No.
Yet, I dislike it when people make rude comments about my weight or even say: You're fat. This is because I don't know why they're saying it. The INTENTION largely characterizes the ACT.
BUT: I'm not on the other side of this fat-thin camp. I don't make FAT/LOSER an identity that I can LOVE/SEEK COMFORT from. I don't say that "Big is Beautiful"--I love beautiful people (Botticelli's women and suchlike, not so much of the Gwen Stefani variety) and they're ALL SLIM, let me tell you that (although not SKINNY).
To all fatties out there: DON'T DO THIS TO YOURSELF, DON'T LET OPRAH (YEAH, the oprah winfrey) TRICK YOU. DON'T READ BOOKS LIKE THESE: Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding My Self http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767912926/ref=pd_cp_b_title/002-8892279-7692001?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155.
Appreciate, love, celebrate beauty.
And don't hate men just because they like their women thin, they can't help it (don't campaign for men to love fatsos, they might just turn gay from all that trauma).
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