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<td width="938"><p><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:18pt;"><b>May
2007 <a href="http://www.fatshadow.com">Home</a></b></span></font></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span class="rss:item"><a id="e1272"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="1">May
1
</font></a><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="1">2007
9:43 P<font size="1">M</font></font></span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> </span></font><span class="rss:item"><a id="e1274"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="1"> </font></a></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span class="rss:item"><a id="e1274" href="http://www.fatshadow.com/May2007.htm#e1274"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="1">Permalink</font></a><a id="e1274"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="1">
</font><font face="Lucida Sans" size="1"> </font></a></span></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">
I hate missing the bus by one minute and
that's exactly what happened to me twice
today. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">I'm
not sure why but both times I've walked
out of the pool and towards the bus
stop,
just as I arrive at the corner
the bus is pulling up across the street.
I wave my pass but the drivers is ruthless.
It doesn't matter a fig because I'm
totally early and there is always another
one coming on that particular line.
I could miss three more and still get
to the train on time. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">And
then at night, I take a bus and as I'm
coming around the corner I look to see
if the other bus is there. If it is
I wait for it at the next stop. If it's
not, I walk. Again, not a big deal.
Except my knees were tired and the second
bus saves me from walking three long
blocks. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Drag.
</span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">All
day I've been thinking about this time
when I used the word akimbo to describe
a shopping cart in a grocery store and one of
my workshop mates asked me how a cart
could be <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/akimbo">akimbo.</a>
It seems she had looked up the word
and only found definitions referring
to arms. I frantically looked for others
but found none and reluctantly
changed the word. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Some
time later another friend used the word in
reference to cars. I was so happy. Somehow
her use of the word gave me some kind
of permission. But I never used the
word again. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Akimbo:
</span></font></p>
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<td width="483"><span class="foreign" style="font-size:11pt;"><font face="Arial">in kenebowe,</font></span><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> perhaps from phrase </span></font><span class="foreign" style="font-size:11pt;"><font face="Arial">in keen bow</font></span><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> "at a sharp angle," or from a Scand. word akin to Icelandic </span></font><span class="foreign" style="font-size:11pt;"><font face="Arial">kengboginn</font></span><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> "bow-bent." </span></font></td>
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<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">It
works. I could use it to describe a
shopping cart. It works when describing
cars at a sharp angle. I love the
feeling of being on. I hate feeling
off. I over react. Somehow I interpret
things in a global way. It means something
about me. No amount of reason works.
</span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">It's
just kooky. </span></font></p>
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<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span class="rss:item"><a id="e1273"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="1">May
6
</font></a><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="1">2007
12:30 P<font size="1">M</font></font></span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> </span></font><span class="rss:item"><a id="e1275"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="1"> </font></a></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span class="rss:item"><a id="e1275" href="http://www.fatshadow.com/May2007.htm#e1275"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="1">Permalink</font></a><a id="e1275"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="1">
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<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">
I heard the best fat joke the other day.
</span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Not
a sentence you'd imagine coming out of my mouth, I'm
sure. What made the joke good was that it was weak and
dimwitted being delivered by a weak and dimwitted character.
You could, I certainly would, say that about all fat
jokes. This one was written to sound that way. When
someone on Will and Grace talks about how many garbage
bags it took for the ashes of the dead, fat husband,
we are supposed to laugh about the guy. And when we
object we are told that everyone gets made fun of on
the show and they do but they are also there to push
back at the humor. The husband is one of the absent
fatsos about which <a href="http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2003/01/26/the-absent-fatso/">Amp
wrote so eloquently</a>. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">The
joke to which I refer was on <a href="http://abc.go.com/primetime/uglybetty/index.html">Ugly
Betty</a>, a show I like. I don't love it but I like
lots of things about it. I started watching it because
I liked <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1065229/">the
actor</a> in Real Woman Have Curves. It is more than
a little frustrating for me because she is one of the
actors representing for fat and ... she's not fat. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">I'm
uncomfortable saying that. I used to swim on Sundays
with a group of fat women. There was an established
size range in which you had to fit to attend the swim
and the friend I often went with was at the low
end of the range. As a result she was made to feel unwelcome,
which I resented more than she did. One woman told me
that she "would kill" to be the size of my
friend. To be fair she knew it wasn't the most fat positive
thing to say but my question was - why, when you feel
something like that, do you not seek to deconstruct
it in yourself? Why do you want to make the other person
go away? It was ironic because my friend was sometimes
called fat by people outside of the swim. Too fat outside
the swim, not fat enough for the swim. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Who
gets to be fat? I am often bewildered by who is considered
fat. I work with a young man who is regularly told
he has to lose weight by the soccer league for which
he works as a referee. He does not, in my opinion, need
to lose weight. He runs miles keeping up with the players
and does actually lose ten pounds, or more, on a day
when he works. Imagine if he didn't have those pounds.
His body would cannibalize his muscles, one of which
would be his heart. Real healthy, huh? The point is,
he is able to do the job and the people who hire him
again and again must think so. He has missed some opportunities
and he thinks it may have been because of their opinion
of his size. That's discrimination.</span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">But
what am I suggesting when I say these people aren't
fat? Am I saying that being fat is something you don't
want to be and so you have to be really fat before I
will believe you are suffering the kinds of oppression
I suffer? I have been and am critical of the fat political
community that puts the smaller, more active, not food
addicted members in the front. I think I spend too much
time talking about what I don't eat and how much I exercise.
Breaking stereotypes is good but we cross a line into
intellectual dishonesty when we don't allow the facts
of everyone's experience. At that same swim I talked
to women with compulsive over eating disorders who felt
they couldn't talk about them there. It was impolitic
and they were silenced just as my friend was made to
feel unwelcome. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">The
push to <a href="http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/164/5/708">pathologize
obesity</a> is badly framed. Compulsive over eating
is an issue for some people and some of those people
are fat. Let's be able to talk about that. It's not
my issue. Which is not to say that I have never compulsively
over eaten. I have. I may again. But I'm not driven
to on a daily basis. And, here again, I begin to talk
about myself as a fat person but distance myself from
those "bad" over eating fat people. Why? Is
it truly useful?</span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Years
ago, at a <a href="http://www.naafa.org/">NAAFA</a>
weekend I had lots of conversations with people who
would whisper furtively to me about wanting to lose
weight. Why did they pick me? Maybe because I was willing
to hear it. I wasn't going to encourage it. I was going
to challenge the thinking but I was willing to allow
for the process. On the other hand I found myself frustrated
by people who had the surgery but were still fat and
were angry that they were no longer welcome in fat community.
I felt that they wanted the comfort of fat positive
messages but had chosen away from the rigour of what
it takes to process the complex issues of life in a
fat body. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">I
always want to be willing to allow for process. I want
people to tell the truth and I want them to be willing
to have the difficult conversations. It's not easy.
It should not be easy. Life is complex. In all revolutions
there have been people who silenced what they considered
counter revolutionary ideas. For me, a true revolution
embraces complexity. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">The
whole notion of ugly confuses me. It seems if you take
a really beautiful woman, dress her in clothes that
don't match, put braces on her teeth, give her glasses
that are too big for her face, you can call her ugly.
For me she looks likes someone with a quirky style that
I rather like but none of it matters because the
clincher on ugly is when you call her fat. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">I
am fat but I am not ugly and I never have been. I've
always been in the "such a pretty face" camp
and, as such, get some amount of privilege. And I think
I've internalized a lot of bad fat psychology.</span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">In
almost every episode of Ugly Betty the questioned is
posed: can Betty have what she wants? She is the problem
solver, the helper, the one who will sacrifice herself
for her boss and her family. In many ways this is an
apt psychological portrait of many fat women. We are
already "a problem" so what can we do to make
up for that? We can fall dutifully in line with service
to those who truly deserve happiness. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">After
the fat joke, a love interest of Betty's tries to come
to her defense but fails. It is Betty who ends up defending
herself. It was quite satisfying. I also like the relationship
between Betty and her boss. It is the relationship that
seems to bring out the best of him. I like that they
aren't a love match. But then again, there's that fat
girl role: be the reason someone else gets to grow.
So I struggle a bit with all of the ideas and I
think that's a good thing. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Who
gets to be fat? In a nation where the average size is
considered fat, my body is an extreme. I'm actually
OK with that. I've been less fat. I was OK with that.
I have the body I want because I want the body I have.
I have the body that reflects the life I have lived,
the family from which I come and the values I want to
empower. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Interesting
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Bazelon.t.html?ex=1179115200&en=683047a72def6b2e&ei=5070&emc=eta1">article</a>
in the NYT today. Could be the fodder for another whole
post but I think I just want to call out the opening
paragraph.</span></font></p>
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<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">I<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;">f you had to choose, would you rather be fat or blind? When a
researcher asked that question of a group of formerly obese people, 89
percent said they would prefer to lose their sight than their hard-won
slimness. �When you�re blind, people want to help you. No one wants to
help you when you�re fat,� one explained. Ninety-one percent of the
group also chose having a leg amputated over a return to obesity.</span></font></td>
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<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Who
gets to be fat? With so many people willing to be anything
but, who gets to be? </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">I
wish fat actors had work. I wish I could look at television
and see a representation of me and my life and not simulacrum.
I wish all the fat jokes on all the shows were written
to demonstrate idiocy. I wish there were no fat jokes
because being fat was understood a natural expression
of diversity and not something to cure. Until then I'll
root for Betty. </span></font></p>
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<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span class="rss:item"><a id="e1274"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="1">May
9
</font></a><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="1">2007
11:20 P<font size="1">M</font></font></span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> </span></font><span class="rss:item"><a id="e1276"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="1"> </font></a></span></p>
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<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">
I just got home from dinner with <a href="http://www.bigfatblog.com/about">Paul</a>.
</span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">We're
going to try and make a monthly habit of it and I hope
we succeed because I come home happy and wound up. I
am so wound up, in fact, that I'm going to write a post
because I'm too wound up to sleep. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">The
post is something I've been thinking about all day.
I checked my g-mail, which I don't do often enough.
Someone sent me a link to a thread by Andrew Sullivan,
who, by the way, I have seen on CSPAN and thought was
smart. Don't agree with him on lots of stuff but, he's
old school Republican. I can deal with that. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">The
thread begins <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/04/lesbians_and_ob.html">here</a>
and goes on <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/05/obesity_and_les.html">here</a>
and there may be more. Anything that uses obesity, serious
and health problem in a sentence immediately makes my
eyes glaze over. Sometimes it makes me angry but these
days it's just too ubiquitous. It's the least original
thinking possible. It's used on the right. It's used
more on the left. Which makes his comment that no one
is allowed to talk about it confusing. IT, being the
terrible problem of obesity, is talked about all day
everywhere. Where does he live? </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">And
ya know, if anyone feels the need to leave me a comment
in which they remind me that people eat crap food and
don't get enough exercise, please resist the urge. I
agree. People do. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Sullivan
says something so full of problems that it makes my
head hurt. </span></font></p>
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<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;">My hunch is that without shallow, physically-oriented men to appeal to,
many lesbians feel even less need to stay in shape than many straight
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<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Um.
Let's see. Interesting what he does there. He talks
about shallow, physically - oriented men. Because I
guess there are no shallow, physically - oriented women.
<a href="http://www.sho.com/site/lword/home.do">Case
in point</a>. Where are the fat lesbians? There's a
lot of shallow, physically - oriented images. And it's
a huge hit. Loved by some of the most radical feminists
I know. Why? I have been bewildered by that fact. Except.
I understand that when you don't see your life in the
media anything is better that nothing. Even a cartoon
that I <a href="http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/cast-biographies/">LOVE</a>
has only a few fat characters. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">And
then there's the conflation of staying in shape with
thinness. Makes me wanna say, dude, (because now I say
dude all the time) there are thin people who are not
fit. There are fat people who are fit. Fit is not about
size. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">And
then. There's the idea that being unfit (read fat because
that's what he's really saying) is unappealing to
all men. Wrong again. It's so tired I can't even work
up any outrage, the lack of which he notes in his second
post. The comments in that post made me more angry than
the post and the fact that he can conclude that the
lesbian community is not PC since there are lesbians
who don't want to be fat and don't want fatness in a
partner and who are also worried about how fat the lesbian
community is. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">I
hate the use of PC. It's code for "anything that
challenges my assumptions too much." </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Here's
some political thought that I hope is correct. I don't
care if you're on a diet. I don't want to hear about
it because it bores me and it's proven wrong headed
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/08/health/08fat.html?ex=1179374400&en=7110e33dfd14cc66&ei=5070&emc=eta1">again
and again and again</a>. But I don't care. Do
your thing. I don't care if you wish you were thin.
Here's what I care about. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Do
you have access to non biased heath care? Do your health
care professionals have the equipment to diagnose you
correctly? Do your doctors focus on your weight and
ignore potentially life threatening issues? Because
even the doctors who do the studies say the darndest
things. </span></font></p>
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<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;">�Those who doubt the power of basic drives, however, might note that
although one can hold one�s breath, this conscious act is soon overcome
by the compulsion to breathe,� Dr. Friedman wrote. �The feeling of
hunger is intense and, if not as potent as the drive to breathe, is
probably no less powerful than the drive to drink when one is thirsty.
This is the feeling the obese must resist after they have lost a
significant amount of weight.�</span></font></td>
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<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">When
he suggests that people resist the urge to take a breath
will people think he's kinda kooky? </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Do
you have access to public facilities? Can you find a
place to sit in which you are not in pain? Can you fly
for work, or for family concerns, without being charged
for the space you need? </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Will
your children be taken away from you because some idiot
public health official will determine that their weight
is a sign of abuse? </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Will
you be harassed at work, or fired because of your weight?</span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Wanna
hear some outrage Andrew? </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">The
doctor again.</span></font></p>
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<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;">The results did not mean that people are completely helpless to control
their weight, Dr. Stunkard said. But, he said, it did mean that those
who tend to be fat will have to constantly battle their genetic
inheritance if they want to reach and maintain a significantly lower
weight.</span></font></td>
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<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Imagine
if we chose to battle social injustice and put in the
same energy that we put into battling the size of our
ass. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Lesbians
come in all sizes and are as capable of buying into
fat bigotry as any straight, white, man. Sadly. Is there
an obesity epidemic specific to lesbians? Gee. I dunno.
Kids are fatter. Dogs and cats are fatter. It gets talked
about all the time, everywhere. Obesity. Serious. Health
problem. Yadda yadda. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Yawn.
</span></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span style="font-size:11pt;">OK.
I think I can go to sleep now. </span></font></p>
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<p> <font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> photo:
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