Ggrrrrr...

[wednes]

Haven't had the urge to punch anyone in the face today?

Read this article I saw over at Big Fat Blog, and you will.

Be stunned by questions such as:

How can fat people look so happy while eating food at a posh resort?

Be amazed by such assertions as:

Most fat people used to be thin and are all very, very unhappy.

And let's not forget these little gems:

"If we pretend that the very fat are happy and just want to be left alone we may be doing them a disservice."

and

"Sex between two hugely oversized people has got to be something to laugh about..." though they generously add "...although obesity is not a laughing matter."


I wonder if they'd like my opinion on a old, bald man who dates a girl 30 years his junior.
Maybe I'll send it to them.

In other more interested news, H and I went to Borders today so I could spend my giftcard. I got a book called Cannibal Killers by Moira Martingale and a book on Albert Fish called Derranged which I guess is fitting and is by Harold Schechter. Both will surely be excellent reads. I'll probably read one after I read Lamb as I am really into this Christopher Moore.

I don't know how it happened, but this is the last day of the first round of the Jeopardy! Super Tourney, and I never saw Ken Jennings. I saw Babu and missed Eddie Timanus (lost!) and those are my 3 fave Jeopardy! champs. Of course, only one of them has sent me his autograph.

Comments

[lirrin.livejournal.com]

I won't be reading that blog you pointed to, as it would raise my BP and I'm just getting that under control.

However, on the point about two huge people having sex being funny...hell, I think sex between ANYONE is funny. Have ya seen the faces people make? And good lord, the noises.

For the record, I'm no happier at 190 than I was at 300 (okay, I'm at 225 post-partum so far. Was at 250 before delivery...) I'm just a happy person in general, size of my ass makes no difference. Anyone with opinions like that clearly has no friggin' clue, therefore their opinion is completely irrelevant.

[psychswitch.livejournal.com]

Oooooooo serial killers, i wanna read em!

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I think I'm just annoyed that people that ignorant get thier own column/show...and apparently have an audience.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Impossible.

Because eventually you'd have to come to my apartment to see them, and I don't think you remember how to do that.

[nate101000.livejournal.com]

This was my reply.

That was the most ignorant thing I have ever read on the subject of obesity. I stopped reading it half way through. You two should be ashamed of yourselves. I would write more but the English language does not contain words to describe how offended I was by your conversation. You should limit your discussions to topics upon which you are knowledgeable.

[psychswitch.livejournal.com]

Bazing!

[psychswitch.livejournal.com]

I think a couple of heavyset people should stand they're windpipes until they stop breathing.

[locakitty.livejournal.com]

shhhh shhhhh
Ken is on in May. I think the 22nd or so. The 2 winners of this tourney go up against him. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!

I wonder if there will be beheadings.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Or we could just wait until they are crushed by thier own condescension.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

That's awesome!!!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Hey, did you see how that OTHER Lisa Nichols commented on this one on Big Fat Blog? I am full of resentment for this imposter---not just because she didn't respond to my communication about how fucked up it is that we have the same name & live up here & are fat & have livejournal accounts, but because I know she was an ass to you ---and it nearly cost me knowing you!

[soundcraft.livejournal.com]

That article reads like something from The Onion.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't notice that.

I've met a few other chicks named Wednesday (I hear about them from people sometimes, but this one I met quite by accident) and she was a haughty, pretentious cheerleader type. It sucked. But at least this impostor lived far away.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Now that you mention it, it does.

[sudrin.livejournal.com]

There are so many things I would like to put here, but ultimately I know it would be a waste of typing. But I totally share the anger. I doubt these people could be reasoned with, because they are totally into "Pity for the fat". It makes them feel safe and superior.

[gifgal.livejournal.com]

i record/watch jeopardy every day too, and i think i remember alex trebek saying something a long time ago where ken jennings will come into the tournament towards the end rounds.

i think they just dont want to chance putting him in earlier in case something bad happens like him getting beat! (not like i think that would personally happen, i love me some kenjen!)

remember the freaky sock puppet dude? hes from my town, arrrgh! hehe, always the weirdos :P

[skryche.livejournal.com]

What assholes. I JUST WANT TO HELP YOU YOU POOR UGLY FAT SAD BASTARDS

That said, is there anything necessarily wrong with such an age gap?

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Ha that's funny.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Not nessesarily, I was merely pointing out that people tend to zero in on visible differences in people, such as age or weight. And that judging people based ona a single perceived difference and nothing else is rude, ignorant, and arbitrary. Combined with the condescension already present in this article and you've got two candidates for a brutal doorknob beating.

[skryche.livejournal.com]

Ah. I got ya.

Heh. "Doorknob beating".

[nate101000.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's sarcasm so subtle that no one gets it.

[nokturnalia.livejournal.com]

"I do not believe it is possible to have a happy and healthy relationship or marriage if one partner is fat because there will always be comparisions made either openly or implied."

??!! :-o

[oscarssister23.livejournal.com]

Schechter kicks so much ass.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've read him before, so I'm looking forward to it.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I know...isnt' that crazy?!?

[nokturnalia.livejournal.com]

Too crazy for words and offensive as hell.

[vjsmom.livejournal.com]

I'm fat, and I'm happy. I was thin at one time, and I got there by way of an eating disorder. Hmmm. Wonder which is better. . . . I'll grab a doorknob and help you out with the beating. That is, of course, if I'm not moving too slowly because of my obesity.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Right on!

I've been fat my whole life...and once I learned to accept myself as a whole person rather than hating being fat, I'm the happiest I've ever been.