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fattypatties speaks for me
11 Mar 2006 09:20 pmfirecatOthers posted it while she was in the middle of writing it. Now it's finished, and it's fucking brilliant. Start at the bottom of the page and read up.
Top 10 Things I am Tired of Discussing in the fat-acceptance community
I'll have more to say about this later; I'm still taking it all in.
Top 10 Things I am Tired of Discussing in the fat-acceptance community
I'll have more to say about this later; I'm still taking it all in.
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Date: 13 Mar 2006 06:20 am (UTC)Well of course we're spending all this time discussing our diet. It's because we can.
My personal opinion is that one of the reasons this country is so harsh on fat people is guilt. To many people, on some level fat people symbolize prosperity and the *ability* to eat freely when others can't. Not only that, to a subset of that group fat people symbolize the political mistakes of America. (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2006/02/22/notes022206.DTL)"