Oh For F*ck’s Sake

I read a post on a blog the other day that instantly made my hair stand on end, like a momma bear defending her cubs. It was about how we should love ourselves, but at the same time it said that our society has become too accepting of fat people, essentially enabling fat people by making larger chairs and advertising delicious-looking food and making clothing that camouflages body faults. And really, shouldn’t we all just want to eat healthy and be thin? Because “nothing tastes as good as thin feels.”

Seriously?

We’re really still having this discussion?

I’m going to lose at least one reader for this one, but you know what? I’m willing to pay that price because goddamnit, are people still that narcissistic and shallow? Do they not get that not everyone is the fucking same? It’s great that you love your body despite your 10 lb fluctuation either side of a normal weight. That’s awesome, really and truly. Does that mean I’m jealous that you don’t struggle like I do? No.  Not in the slightest.

Let me set the record straight. Fat people are not jealous of skinny people. Do I need to say it again?  FAT PEOPLE ARE NOT JEALOUS OF SKINNY PEOPLE! Did you hear met that time?

Skinny people need to get it out of their heads that all fat people want in this world is to be like them. Everyone has issues. Everyone. Some people just have to wear their issues on the outside. Some people have extenuating circumstances that you, in your little shallow and judgmental world that revolves solely around that axis that is you, know absolutely nothing about.

You know what does bother me about naturally thinner people who cast judgment on fat people? It has nothing to do with the size of their body, that’s for sure. It has to do with the mentality that losing weight is a simple mathematic equation. Put down the donut, fatty, and you won’t look like such a lardass. If it were as simple as that don’t you think that there would be less overweight people in the world?  An entire economic sector is built on the fact that it isn’t just simple math.  Jenny Craig would go out of business if it were that easy.  It seems that because they’ve never had to fight this particular battle, they just can’t wrap their minds around why someone would find it so difficult.

Whatever happened to not judging someone until you’ve walked a mile in their moccasins? Whatever happened to live and let live? You don’t like the way I look? Don’t fucking look. And don’t trot out that tired old argument that fat is inherently unhealthy because it’s complete and utter bullshit. I am the healthiest fat person you know; actually I’m a lot healthier than a lot of thinner people I know.

Does all this mean that I don’t want to be thinner, or don’t want to lose weight?  No, it doesn’t.  It means I’ll make you a deal – you don’t judge me for being fat and I won’t throw M&M’s down your asscrack when your low-rise jeans show off exactly what you’re made of.  Ass.