Freshly back from BlogHer, I can’t wait to tell you all about some of the kickass blogistas I met doing fitness and weight stuff. And by the way, Jess is scrapping with me for Jillian, and she’s got the blog entry to prove it. Maybe we could each have her six months out of the year, Jess? And, uh, like you said, don’t you already have a personal trainer you get nasty with? Oh yeah.
Anyhoo, I wanted to mention a good chat I had with Jessica and Rachel about honesty and body looove and shit like that. We were discussing whether you say, “Fuck, I feel like a lardass” on your blog, like is that feminist or annoying or refreshingly candid or what. (Yeah, us bitches are deep and chatty like that. I think we talked about shoes and hoo hoos or something after that.) It made me realize that even though I really almost never self-censor (surprise!), back on the hormonal holiday, I wanted to write “I feel fat” but I held back. Why? Cuz 1) I thought it might be annoying, coming from a clear fitness freakazoid hoochie (uh, that’s me) and 2) I get real tired of how fat is bashed all the time, like it’s on par with being a bad person. Actually, I think judgments abound with fatness, and it just irks me.
Now, I’m saying this as a trainer by nature (not cuz I hate ya) and if someone wants to lose pounds, I’m right there to assist. But should they have to? If there’s health issues that might mean their children will lose a parent at an early age, maybe. But same goes for lots of “risky” behavior, and I don’t like judging about any of it if I can help it. (BTW, anorexia is far worse for your health.) So even though it’s clearly my topic du jour, I’ll tell you what: I do think there’s plenty of assumptions made about fat people, and research is showing that obesity is more complicated than has been previously assumed. But let’s break it down in a real scientific way like this:
On the fat side, we have Santa Claus, Orson Wells, older Brando and Elvis, Camryn Manheim, Queen Latifah, Jackie Gleason, Pavarotti (we could mine opera for days), Lou Costello, sometimes Missy Elliot, maybe Jack Black, and probably by today’s standards, anyone considered really hot during the last few centuries.
On the skinny side, we have Paris Hilton, Hitler, Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, the whole cast of “CSI” (I hate that show), all those Scientologist celebs, and possibly Alan Thicke.
I rest my case. But while I kid, I do mean it about fat bashing.
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