Comments on: On “Personal Responsibility” and “Healthy Lifestyles”

By: Why People Hate The Gym « we are the REAL deal

Why People Hate The Gym « we are the REAL deal — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:15:47 +0000

[...] for her, she did not say the words “lifestyle changes,” which meant I didn’t have to deck her. But man, did I ever want to, especially when she [...]

By: Talespun

Talespun — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:34:11 +0000

that’s you just can’t win…. obviously
:/

Typos

By: sleepless

sleepless — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:27:32 +0000

I hate both terms. Yep, the coded message is there, and they point towards total control over ourselves and our situations, which is seriously not the way it is.

Oh, and things like this don’t help: http://www.theage.com.au/news/letters/obesity-an-emergency-that-must-be-tackled/2008/04/17/1208025380115.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

Every couple of *^&%ing days something like this comes up. It’s enough to make you weep.

So fatties are morally responsible for the destruction of the economy and the planet. There are so many degrees of wrong in that…

*headdesks*

By: Talespun

Talespun — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:38:57 +0000

Responding to Risha waaaaaaay up there. I got pregnant when I was 200+ pounds and my doctor who was the most wonderful ob/gyn in the whole world (why did he have to retire?! why?!) said “hey you’re a little big for your weeks in.” so I said “You sure it’s not the fat?” and he said “Nope. Go have an ultra-sound and we’ll have a look.”

Couple of weeks later on my birthday my ultrasound appointment happens and sure enough there were twins in there. That made my whole pregnancy really! Why did he have to retire? Waaah.

But the real point is, when I got pregnant barely a week passed before the little buggers attached up and I was barfing morning, noon and night.

I lost over 40 pounds being pregnant without doing a thing different, so don’t listen to the ‘lose weight’ crew. :P

ALSO while we’re on about pregnancy, the ultrasound doctor who was NOT nice at all was absolutely convinced I was going to be a preggo-diabetic because I was fat. I had to take that test 4 times I think near the end and never did I go over the line, so that’s a big BAH HUMBUG too. The stuff they make you drink for that test is so yucky…. Bleh.

My girls have grown up just fine, into their teens now, and I am still a fatty (because of course once I stopped barfing I went right back to the pre-weight)! One of my daughters is rather chubby and the other is stick thin and of course the chubby one gets crap for being fat, and the thin one has people calling her anorexic although she’s not by any means a skeleton. :| You just can win either way!

By: Revelations « virgotext

Revelations « virgotext — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:57:01 +0000

[...] about the din from that tower of corporate babel that condescendingly tells me I have a personal fucking responsibility to adopt buy a healthy lifestyle their diet/product/program/book/crackpot theory/conformist [...]

By: OlderThanDirt

OlderThanDirt — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:41:23 +0000

Bristol Myers Squibb, the big drug company, has a new slogan for a bunch of their drugs, “Your will. Our Medicine. Together we will prevail.”

The first time I saw this was in a marketing class and it was touted as a great campaign. It made me so mad I could barely breathe. Implicit in this idea is that if you don’t prevail, it’s because your will wasn’t strong enough. Instead of the fact that the medicine barely works.

This is a great example of making everything in the world “personal responsibility”. It’s all an enormous scam to transfer the responsibility of not harming us onto our shoulders, making us responsible for not being harmed.

By: Me Too « spacedcowgirl

Me Too « spacedcowgirl — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:47:32 +0000

[...] this article yet, but just in case, PLEASE read Debra Sapp-Yarwood’s opinion piece (via Shapely Prose and fat fu) in the Kansas City Star. Many of the points she made were ones I was struggling [...]

By: And Now For Something Completely Different: A Successful Dieter Without a Bone Up Her Ass « fat fu

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:59:34 +0000

[...] at Chez Kate yesterday, Ms. Harding tipped off the ‘Sphere to freakin’ awesome op-ed in the Kansas [...]

By: JPlum

JPlum — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:37:29 +0000

AnnE, Eurcitta, I think the urge some people have to tell you about things you can do for your health is the same urge felt by someone who has just discovered FA/HAES and now wants to share/proselytize. It’s entirely possible, AnnE, that the woman who spoke to you honestly DID think she was the first person to tell you that stuff. If she worked at a wellness clinic, she probably met lots of people who actually hadn’t ever heard that stuff. Plus, she was probably prone to epiphanies (what else would lead her to work at a wellness clininc?).

Off-topic, you know who is one of the HAES ‘sister’hood? My dad! I was talking about some sort of thing related to how silly the BMI is, and related stuff, and he says “Oh, Health at Every Size!” See, he’s one of those nice doctors who keeps up on things. Plus, he works in pain management, so sees a lot of bigger people.

By: phledge

phledge — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:36:13 +0000

“We have to eliminate this ugly fish by eating it.”

Full-sugar soda, meet keyboard. That is awesome.