syke, i’m just playin….

but not really…

Forget the health issues. That’s a personal matter. People have the right to kill themselves.

Assaulting our eyes in public is another matter.

You f***ing sanctimonious assholes.

I wonder how the people who have ‘feet that look like claws’ or ‘pizza face skin’ or whatever other thing that makes people self- conscious would feel if they had their personal issue held up in harsh light for other people to incessantly mock and pass judgment upon.

Granted, there are a plethora of health risks associated with being overweight– anyone with half a functioning brain cell should know this. What is worse is that we live in a culture that makes it so incredibly easy to become a fast-food- face- stuffing, mush-bodied couch potato. Nobody is disagreeing with all of you who talk about these people (except for maybe how evil some of you are being)– especially the ‘fatties’ who appear unwilling to be able to do anything about it. I even get mad as hell at these people– mainly because they make me look bad.

Ladies, you know how you get pissed off when some moron tries to kick it to you with a tired ass line and gets mad when you look at him all screw-faced? The reason this happens is because at some point, that line went over on some less-discerning chick. So he naturally assumes that all women should go for it.

Same idea when you make blanket statements/ harbor assumptions about people who are of larger size (e.g. they eat nothing but greasy ass food, never exercise, see nothing wrong with their state of living, etc.).

Therefore, people like me have these assumptions made about them.

Ok, now I ask you to indulge a little bit of hubris in the next few statements.
I’m actually much healthier than many ’skinny’ women I know (and they’ve told me this).
I run/bike about 30 miles a week
I play volleyball every weekend
I train 5 times a week with a personal trainer
I can’t stand the smell of most fast food joints, let alone eat in one of those places
I limit my consumption of “white” starches (potatoes, refined sugar, rice, bread, etc)
Some people would kill for my BP/blood sugar/cholesterol numbers.
I guess I’m “heavier” b/c I have a large amount of lean muscle mass– and people seem to know (since I’ve seen it iterated here in one form or another) is that muscle weighs more than fat (NO, I DO NOT LOOK LIKE A FEMALE BODY BUILDER–eww).

The impetus for doing all of this is NOT vanity– Its common f***ing sense. My father (even though slender) has diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and had a pulmonary embolism 2 years ago. My mother’s sisters all had hypertension when they were pregnant and none of them were what you would call overweight when they were pregnant. Although I’m proud of my family and their accomplishments, this is one thing I would rather NOT emulate.

The reason I say the above is not to somehow prove that I am better than anyone else… I’m just saying that since we brown people have enough bullshit to deal with that is associated with something we cannot (and do not) want to change (our lovely brownness), you may want to think carefully when you criticize/mock people who you think of as ‘other’ than you.

peace,

the retrospect

Hahahaha, okay. I’m stopping before we go off on more girly tips around the males.