These exchanges have been beyond interesting. All I can say is "wow"-I don't even know where to start
First and most important, I do NOT want the government in my life any deeper than it is. Government is not my friend-it is the enemy in my eyes. Anyone read Brave New World or George Orwell's 1984? The longer I live, the more this country resembles it. Government is supposed to SERVE the people, not control them! Big Brother is turning into Big Daddy every single day. We're just throwing our rights in the craphole so government can fix it for us. Some of you are going to look up one day and realize you have no more rights-it'll just be one big dictatorship who picks and chooses their definition of the "best" and the rest will fend for themselves. Wait a minute...starting to look like that right about now!
I do not smoke, but I don't want the government regulating those who do. Restrict some areas and make the non-smokers happy. But why make smoking legal to buy then make it illegal to smoke? Just make smoking illegal and cigarettes illegal. I can't wait to see the fallout from that-it'll be like prohibition in the 20s! It'll start with smokers, then the fat folks, the elderly, then who else? For those of you who think government regulating smokers and the workplace regulating fat people is okay, wait'll their next crusade ends up landing in your backyard. You'll won't be on your soapbox then.
Society has turned into a big bully-whoever doesn't fall in line with it's views gets picked on and pushed aside. We've picked on smokers (that the government help get hooked decades ago), we've picked on drinkers (a lot of people made money off them) and we've picked on fat people (society's parriah-society likes smokers & drinkers better). Of course, if you're fat, you're automatically told you're unhealthy and unattractive. That's the biggest wad of horse-crap ever sold!
I was a chubby kid, an overweight teen, and am an obese adult. My doctor told me that I was healthier than her! I am not unhealthy nor am I unattractive. Both of my children came from long term relatiionships (one of them a marriage) and they weren't born from a test tube. Obviously someone didn't think I'm unattractive. And I still, in this big body, have no problem getting a man's attention.
But society wants me to be ashamed of myself to convince me to lose weight. Besides, if I lose weight, all of your health insurance costs will decrease right? And they'll pass that extra money back to you right? That line of thinking goes in the way of Santa Claus and the Easter bunny-you believe it when you're naive, and then you grow up to the truth!
I go to work every day and pay my own health insurance costs-no one pays them for me. When I get sick I do not hesitate to go to the doctor just like all of you. You know, when a fat person goes to the doctor they get a lecture about losing weight then get sent home. When a thin person goes to the doctor, they get worked up from head to toe. Why is that?? Oh, btw, there are not just fat folks in the cemetary either!
Oh and if you followed me around for 30 days, you'd notice something else: I do not eat fast food, I don't consistenly over-indulge in my food, I don't overdo sweets, yet I'm a really big chick. Do you know how many times I attempted to lose weight and failed miserably time after time? More than I can remember to count. It took me almost two years to lose 55 lbs, but it took only a few weeks to gain most of it back. I will go back to the drawing board and do it all over again-maybe this time I won't fail miserably. Sometimes you just get to play the hand you're dealt-I come from generations of fat folks-you don't get to pick your genetics.
People don't have to smoke or drink but we all have to eat. Be happy for your metabolism and chemical balance. Hopefully you will never have to live in my skin. But don't give me this stuff about employers firing fat people because they're large. Until they start having to make special accomodations for my big behind, they'd better not bother me because I give my employer 110% every single day. If some job EVER fires me just because of my weight, not because that weight affects MY ABILITY TO PERFORM THE JOB THEY HIRED ME FOR they'd better be prepared for the court battle of their lives!!!
I'm not asking any of you to feel sorry for me or to join my bandwagon. I'm worthy of respect not because of the size of my body but my ability to contribute to the very society who wants to judge and ostracize me. I won't let them bully me and make me feel badly about myself if I never lose an ounce!
Sorry about the long post and thank you for allowing me a place/space to vent. I hope I haven't offended anyone, but it just became too much to handle.
This is kis giving the thread back to it's owner............. 🙁
