PhQnix
Friday 9th January 2009 9:36pm
7,015 posts
Quote: zooo @ January 9 2009, 2:54 PM GMT
Aw. I'm sure some people are happy to be fat, but I bet a lot feel they have to pretend to be. Not many people want others to assume they hate themselves.
It's a tricky one. Sometimes I can feel completely secure with my weight (I'm overweight for those of you who have not had the pleasure of me nodding awkwardly at you in a bar in Greenwich) and other times it gets to me. Happily I have to say that I normally feel secure about it, or I forget that it's something that singles me out.
It's a weird thing, in an environment where people will mock you for just about anything I still find that people tend to steer clear of jokes about my size. It's one of the great taboos, don't mention it or I'll get terribly upset or something. Frankly I don't think many people would care too much about weight if the media didn't focus on it so much. Congratulations to anyone who does lose weight, it's a health concern so you can only be doing yourself good, but if you don't lose it or you gain it or whatever it's not the end of the world.
Some people reading this will assume that I'm in complete denial, I think it's easy to assume that overweight people are kidding themselves. But everyone has some facets of their personality or their appearance that they don't like, but we all still get by (just about.)
I'm not really sure what, if anything, I was trying to say there.