The Fat Positive Lounge

[deedarino]

What is it exactly, this thing ugly?
I see you hide your eyes
For a moment I believe while I nurse my wounds
Soon the illusion will fade and the truth is evident
Ugliness resides in the heart,
From this you cannot hide.

[LeftWriteFemme]

My plan was to post something with KD Lang, to help put a smile on nycfembbw's face, (I don't know that KD makes her smile, but she makes me smile....) while I was watching it I realized that Graham in a very quiet way teased Jennifer Hudson about her 80 pound weight loss, I found it interesting and thought you might find it interesting too.

[LeftWriteFemme]

Oh, my Fucking Whatnot.......here is part 1......having posted part 2 above and here in part 1 is all the stupid things people say to folks about their weight, so damned depressing

[nycfem]

The Biggest Loser

http://www.womanist-musings.com/2010...at-is-all.html

[LeftWriteFemme]

That's a great blog, thanks for posting it. I often wonder what makes people so angry and or frightened of fat, I wonder this same thing about why gay is so frightening and or anger producing......seems strange, neither of these things is catching if you know what I mean!

Strangely it puts me in mind of this bit of satire....

[Leigh]

Its truly amazing how people think that being fat is like one of the worst things ever ~ I can think of things WAY worse than having some extra meat on their bones *shakes head*

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Beauty and comfort within one's own skin does not come from a gym, a perfect hair day or mimicking models from fashion magazines..... It comes from inside and it is a constantly changing vision. I wake up in the morning, feeling sexy and sensuous. It feels ecstatically satisfying wiggling and sashaying my soft, plentiful, desirable curves. My more than attractive ample, full, soft, sensuous, voluptuously feminine body yearning to be caressed, squeezed, adored and worshipped.

Ideals in western culture are ridiculous, unattainable and very sad; impossibly svelte women whose skin appears to have been shrink-wrapped to their bones. These women appear to live a life where food cannot be enjoyed, made reachable, and that is not normal or healthy. They have to be underweight and famished. Aren't there enough people starving in the world? So why deliberately encourage this?

It’s time to enjoy our fuller figures again! It’s time to enjoy all figures and shapes. Let's honour, worship and enjoy womanhood, softness and roundness. A woman totally squashes her personality with the preoccupation of her weight; it's become an issue. A negative one!

There is a biological reason why women are supposed to have fuller figures. The female hormones cause fat to be stored on the hips, breasts, belly, bum and thighs; this acts as a protective measure in ensuring that there are enough reserves to continue nursing a child during lean times. Our bodies haven’t adapted to an abundance of food that we have today.

The fashion for thinness tends to be a phenomenon of modern-day Western society, although there has been a recent trend for women to under go cosmetic surgery to have buttock-implants, breast implants and calf implants thereby emulating a curvy figure; all of which nature has already provided.