tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2762472149707004156.post1025424116505305038..comments2014-04-14T14:28:19.355-07:00Comments on The Jellie Roll: Is That a Fat Joke? & The Invisible Fattie.LexieDihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04525338055931137783noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2762472149707004156.post-24772830808693513702010-07-30T01:05:10.593-07:002010-07-30T01:05:10.593-07:00Unfortunately fat is a woman's issue most of t...Unfortunately fat is a woman's issue most of the time. We are expected to be what society deems beautiful. We are seen as things to look at. We're not. We're women, strong, brave, hard-working, intelligent, and yes, beautiful! But we are beautiful for ourselves, not for anyone else. Long live your individual beauty!<br /><br />And, on a side note... O my goodness, that home-made pizza sounds good!LexieDihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04525338055931137783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2762472149707004156.post-40002113764368950662010-07-29T17:02:21.075-07:002010-07-29T17:02:21.075-07:00Yes, I think it has to be with being a female. It ...Yes, I think it has to be with being a female. It is like all the girls I know are o have been following a diet (even very thin girls). <br /><br />At work there is a restaurant but I prefer to take my own food because the cooker is really really bad.<br />A colleague asked why I was cooking my own food instead of having lunch at the restaurant. I explained that I didnt like the food and he asnwered: "you know? they have a diet menu..."<br />Once I was eating some pieces of home made pizza (whole wheat and with vegetables, by the way) and another colleage said: "Well, you shouldnt be eating that! I dont think pizza is good for dieting".<br /><br />There are some male colleages fat. Some of them dieting, some of them do not care. But the interesting thing is that people dont give a shit about what they eat. They only talk about what I eat.Pasti Rojahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05376971800392345087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2762472149707004156.post-57100477200460057072010-06-30T20:51:18.169-07:002010-06-30T20:51:18.169-07:00Sucqbus: I think it totally has something to do wi...Sucqbus: I think it totally has something to do with being female. I think it even has most to do with being female. Men don't HAVE to diet, though that idea is slowly changing. Women, in society's views, always have to be moderating their bodies. It's their job as women to do so.<br /><br />I doubt men get the "Diet?" question a lot.<br /><br />One would hope that people are simply bigots... but in the end, it makes you feel the same.LexieDihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04525338055931137783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2762472149707004156.post-20585521234219291362010-06-30T16:24:25.860-07:002010-06-30T16:24:25.860-07:00I get the "*Diet* Coke?" question on and...I get the "*Diet* Coke?" question on and off. In a restaurant I've even had them just BRING me the diet version of what I asked for without asking. I'm fat and female. I actually think that this may be more of a "woman" thing than a fat thing, or a combo of the two. Most likely they have had many dieting women (whether fat or "average") ask for diet or complain if regular soda is brought when they wanted diet. It may be something they automatically do. OR they may have many of their larger women clients ask for diet. They don't do it to my husband, that I've ever noticed. He detests diet soda.<br /><br />On the other hand, it could be a subconscious "oh, she MUST be dieting, at her size" or a more overt "she SHOULD be dieting, at her size". The problem with that is, even if you WERE dieting, you might have been feeling like splurging at this particular instant. So it's not ever really a GOOD assumption.<br /><br />So were they going with experience in thinking that might be what you meant? Or are they simply obliviously bigoted against fat people? Does it matter?<br /><br />I've not been able to decide on that one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com