One of the main oppositions to health care reform (or rather the hyped up opposition, not to be confused with the insurance agencies oppostion) – is the “personal responsibility” issue. “I don’t wanna be taxed so some fat ass can eat like a lunatic all their lives and then be able to get health care that only responsible people should have”

Personal responsibility as an argument against social programs and regulations falls flat these days with most other situations, people realize that it’s not black and white and though they used to blame people for bad decisions that is starting to change: …examples are: financial – well Wall street ripped you off; drug use – well you are genetically predisposed, go for treatment, not to jail;…. well, sure there are still some who think all of that is stuff we do to ourselves, but with every new bit of research those misconceptions change. But not when it comes to fattiness.

With fattiness, well, let me cut this ramble short and say I will not be surprised one bit when somebody comes out and says:

“Health Care Reform should not happen until America tackles the Obesity Epidemic” -

and everyone, even the progressives and liberals, everyone except the fatties will be on that bandwagon.

Also: this is funny in the usually heartbreaky Onion: -http://www.theonion.com/content/news/study_abstinence_only_lunch

“According to the findings of a recent Department of Health and Human Services study, school lunch programs that teach children to avoid all contact with food may not be an effective method of reducing teen obesity rates.
………
Perhaps more troubling, students who completed the abstinence-only program were reportedly unable to answer the simplest questions about their own digestive systems, and some as old as 17 still believed they could catch high blood pressure from their very first Snickers bar.”

It’s just a shame we have to continue to go around proving our humanity. But people of color, women, and gay folk have been doing it for forEHver, so it ain’t like we’re in bad company. :: shrugs ::

You think they’ll like that one?? It shows how flexible I am!

Well, I don’t know about Newsweek, but I think I’d like to see it ;) /filthy perv

The only pic I can think of where I’m doing something that might be classed as “healthy” is of me and a friend playing Twister, I only just lost to her, in spite of her being slim and active, and me being an obese-inbetweenie fibromyalgic type (and the other two people who started the game with us fell over long before I stood up!) I don’t think my friend would want me to send the pic, sadly, and being an inbetweenie I’d be accused of not even being fat and thus a BIG FAKER, in spite of being well into the 30+BMI category.

My medium-nice side is thinking, here’s a picture of me with some friends – see, people still want to be friends with me even though I’m fat.

My nice side – um, wait, where’d she go?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKFcAQKiBB0 – Cuba Dentro de un Piano, by Xavier Montsalvatge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6fkgbQOqec – Black Max, by William Bolcom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyDLS1Tm20w – Drei Liebeslieder (Three Love Songs) by Richard Strauss

But somehow (and I don’t remember the exact circumstances) I stumbled over this blog, and after only a few articles, I was converted. Because reason and logic, not to mention human decency, are hard to ignoe unless you really, reallly want to.

So yes,you can educate people through these articles and really make them change their way of looking at things. Probably not the angry, derisive trolls; but those who are willing to listen to reason.

I know that I am very thankful for finding this site and learning so many new, important things. It has made me so much more aware and truly changed the way I look at the world.

None of you have any obligation to send pictures, but those of you who have the admirable courage to do so, know that there are people out here who appreciate everything you do and are chearing for you.