Those I Like and Those I Don't

Well, I am finally getting the hang of this blogspot thing. I found a community of people in my demographic and even bookmarked a few I might read later. I was kind of disappointed to find only a few real blogs. I like blogs with bite. I think everybody has drama and issues, but if you blog like you don't, it's boring! Ugh. I want to read the good stuff!

Anyway, seeing the other blogs also gave me some motiviation to clean this place up a bit. Start proofreading, for instance. I may just go back and edit this for brevity and clarity.

Well, there is this one blog I read and did not like at all. Make that two. Do you know why I didn't like them? B/c the writers had fat bias. I once had fat bias myself, but I got over that.

Let me tell the whole four-year-long story in a paragraph or so, for clarity and brevity. Used to have fat bias myself, got pregnant, woo-hoo started to eat. I mean what I wanted and when I wanted. I enjoyed it, I gained alot of weight. People in general and at work specifically began to have a different attitude toward me. I was now treated like I had become lazier and dumber. That's right, instead of getting smarter and better at a job I had been experiencing and grinding away at for years, I had become lazier and dumber b/c of my weight gain. This is true. That's how the world looks at fat people. The phrase, 'how lazy and dumb are you?' is written all over their face. I thought I was the insightful one and they had their heads up their ass and I was not going to conform to society b/c I thought society was being a little superficial on this one.

So, I bucked the system and had another kid and gained even more weight than before. And then they cut my uterus out. I'm not sure which doc did it, I was under at the time. But when I came up, well not right away, but when I realized I wasn't going to have kids anymore, I decided to change my image. So, I did. So, I am. I was only allowing myself the excess b/c I was in the child-bearing phase of my life and I don't think it's healthy to diet and exercise when trying to carry children. For me anyway. Alot of people will tell you different. alot of people, that is, WHO HAVE NEVER DELIVERED A HEALTHY CHILD! Those fuckers. Shove your fucking advice up your you-know-what.

I say that b/c most moms I know believe in the supersitious-ness of it, too. And if you know what you need to do to have a healthy baby for you, than do it. What works for me, will not necessarily work for everyone. Most real moms know this. Your sports nut doctor and well-meaning co-workers should just shut their trap. You know why? B/c I never go around and dole out my advice on fly-fishing to an avid fisherman b/c I have never been fishing before and that wouldn't make sense. Anyway, when it comes to pregnancy, the opposite is true. Anyone who has read a book or article or their horoscope feels entitled to offer their advice. Shoot, this was supposed to be short. I got off on a tangent. The point is, in case anyone missed it, if you are childless, don't offer advice on pregnancy. To anyone, ever. You are not in the club. Shut the fuck up. It's irrelevant. Even you doctors, out there, reading this blog(who knows). Don't get me started on doctors.

OK, I am started on doctors. I feel like I could treat myself better with google than to waste my time going in to see a doctor. It's really that they have the prescription meds on lock down (the doctors) that keep us all under control. I know when my kids need antibiotics, if I could go get them I would. But I can't, I have to come to you and get a prescription.

I actually treat my family and tell them when they've been misdiagnosed and I'm always right! My husband didn't believe me, I told him there was no way he had what he had been told he had. I told him to tell the doctor to try and google it again. He snickered at me, but carried on his woe-is-me I have a strange disease routine. Until, it turns out I was right. haha. Hate to earn my credibility with I-told-you-so's but--no I don't--I love it. I told you so, I was right, earned credibility ranking going hiiigghherr..

I tried to move into dental work but my niece wouldn't let me. I tell her that I am just as qualified as any dentist b/c I have access to google and have read the same thing they have read before doing this procedure. And even with another family member vouching for my prowess, she still wouldn't let me continue. I am just saying that if it was 150 years ago, I would be the local doctor around here. All the pioneers would be coming to see me. But google wouldn't be around. So, I'd just give 'em a shot of whiskey and set their bone, or pull their tooth, or saw their leg off. But, those specialized surgeons still get a little of my respect. And I only have a little left. B/c I can't anesthetize someone, or cut their body open and fix their hearts, or brains. But the other type of doctors. O. M. G.

But back to my point. What bothers me the most about fat bias is how stupid it is. But we can't even see it b/c we are so one-dimensional about this topic. I know some hilarious and brilliant people who are fat. And making fun of fat people or using fat people as a punch line doesn't make fat people look bad. It makes you look bad! (directed to person making the fat remark) Somehow, being fit, gives people a trump card these days. I don't agree with it.