Archive for the ‘fat’ Category

• A society of intolerance

  Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

  Our society has become a bastion of intolerance and self righteousness. If you are not one of what these people feel is the norm you are free targets to be bullied and made to suffer. One of the latest to decide what should be acceptable and voice her opinion is Maura Kelly, a journalist of [...]

• Bulling has risen to a new high

  Saturday, October 23rd, 2010

  Bulling is defined as: “the act of mentally or physically harming another” has risen to and all time high with a new and deadly twist. All of us have run into the schoolyard bully who promised to break our faces but folded when we stood up for ourselves. But we now have new kinds of [...]

• Oh heck no

  Friday, September 3rd, 2010

  Now I must admit that I have been a big girl all my 60 plus years and most likely will stay that way. But when I read an article about a woman that was not hired by Weight Watcher because after losing 118 pounds and now only wearing a size 12, she was still too [...]

• One of the last social prejudice

  Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

  The Oscars have barely had time to find a place on the mantles before the hate mongers have come out of the woodwork slinging mud on the young girl who was nominated for an Oscar due to her weight problem. People like the classless Howard Stern are stating she is one of the fattest people [...]

• Dying to be thin

  Thursday, September 17th, 2009

  I have chronicled my fight with weight and know what its like to want to be thin. I have gone to some extreme methods to try to lose weight due to the pressure I put on myself and the pressure I received from society. I can remember a fad that was going around in the [...]