It happens occasionally, here are a few of my rants.
It is considered impolite to ask a woman her dress size, unless of course you work in a clothing store. It is also considered impolite to assume someone is plus size. As someone who is plus size I find it more offensize and impolite for people to act offended by the term plus size as…
the tale of one woman’s breasts Do you remember the moment when you first became aware (or self conscious) of your body? I do. It was summer. Hot and sticky. I was probably five or six years old. I was running around the house in pink cotton panties and nothing else. A neighbor came over…
I like the word fat. It’s short. Easy to write. Requires no thought once so ever. When you say it people know what you mean. Sure I could use other words. Obese is a nice medical term but I’m not a doctor. Pudgy is an OK term but it reminds me of something my grandmother…
When you were a child what did you want to be when you grew up? Chances are you weren’t thinking in terms of being thin. Those wishes came with puberty. From then on so much time has been spent focusing on the outside that we’ve forgotten to take care of the inside. While physical health…
Most of the time, I don’t have an opinion on being fat, at least not until I look in the mirror. Then it becomes a fashion, exercise, body image volcano of emotional banter that doesn’t stop until I’m well past glancing at the mirror. I hate mirrors yet I refuse to remove them from my…
Why do chairs have arms? Why is it they are only made for small butts when supposedly 60% of the population is overweight? These were just some of the questions rushing through my mind as I squeezed my butt into yet another tight arm chair. Exactly how is the width of a chair determined anyway?…