Message 75/163
Date: 10-May-03 @ 08:28 PM -
RE: the force is strong with this one
Fat is NOT a disease. Fat people are not victims. They can choose to not be fat. No matter how difficult anybody tries to make it out, it's a choice. Plain and simple. If you choose to be fat, I choose to look down upon you for it. Anorexia/bulemia is also a choice. Neither one are easy to overcome. I know this well. Malnutrition, and starvation are RARELY a choice. I have dealt with those personally, so don't try to hand me even one little bit of shit for trashing people who eat too much when others starve. A person with food has the choice to be gluttonous or not. A person without it has no choice.
Influx, I've NEVER been flabby. Not ever.
Now as for Sumo wrestling, I think it's pretty barbaric in its origins, but the guys that do it have turned it into a ritual and an artform. They are immense dudes, but only part of that mass is fat. A lot of those guys, the really good ones especially, are fucking stong. They can move that mass with speed and power. A lot of them can lift each other as well. Weighing 350lbs, and being able to lift another guy of the same weight in addition to your own...that is worthy of some respect for the feat. However, the tradition started with slaves who were kept in cages and fed to be large, then made to fight each other in the clay ring just like beetles, and the salt that they threw down was supposed to signify anger, and egg the contestants on. This was done for the pleasure of the courts. So do I found it to be originally a noble thing? No, not really. Has it grown to be something worthy of respect? Yeah, I guess it has, cuz those guys do it and do it seriously, and train hard to be that way, and I know that it's not something I could even begin to try without getting my ass kicked royally. Do I find it aesthetically pleasing? Fuck no.
Errata, I'm not particularly big physically. If you judge others for judging others, doesn't that make you just as small by that token? I don't think judgement is a diminuative thing. I think lack of honesty with oneself and others in the attempt to be compassionate is far more demeaning for all involved. That of course does not equate to having to say everything you feel all the time, but neither does it mean lie or beat around the bush, or try to politcally correct a situation by making one at fault out to be a victim, even if of themselves. One chooses to be a victim, especially in this case. I don't get on people for conditions they are born with like birth defects, gender, skin color, sexual orientation, endowment, because those are not choices. Those are conditions that we are all given, and we have to deal with. Fat is a choice. I have no guilt or remorse whatsoever at all for judging people by their choices, and I think to not judge them for that does both you and the other person a disservice, since it is the choices we make that define us as individuals far above and beyond the conditions that are imposed upon us by our very births.
Ape