Yep, just what I wanted to deal with today.

[napoleonherself]

Who needs self-confidence? NOT ME!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I know it causes you physical pain and severe mental anguish simply to have to look at me. Do you have to rub it in like that?

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[chess]

*provides a hug, not an 'intervention', whatever one of *those* is - sounds painful!*

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Going off my understanding of what an intervention is, I guess it means someone literally standing in front of the fridge and not letting me get at its contents (which makes sense to me... after all, fat people don't need to eat! We're like HUMAN CAMELS!!!). Verbal beratement might also be in order.

I hope those bigoted bastards are happy. I had one meal yesterday out of forgetting-to-eat-ness. I have yet to eat today. Would they like me to starve myself to death so I'm not quite so hideous? Because I'm off to a good start!

[malver.livejournal.com]

*shakes his head at that thread* If it were not hypocritical of this fool horsie, I'd thwap the fool who started that thread upside the side of the head just for -being-, well... fool and idiot and inflammatory and insulting besides.
I used to weigh 290 lb and can say I have some notion what it felt like. Does he/she?
You're fine, Ms. Rowland. Trust yourself.

[godai.livejournal.com]

I say we should go over there and sit on them. :)

I'm overweight myself (320) over the past 6 months i've lost 40 lbs.

Will i ever not be fat? No

I can feel how big my bones are. My skeleton will have bigger arms then some people. thats the way life is.

But they are right in one point. The lawsuit is just silly.

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

The lawsuit is retarded. Although it's sort of a pity that I don't eat fast food very often (it almost always makes me ill, though I'm not averse to stealing a couple of my brother's french fries now and then), 'cause otherwise I could try to cash in on the idiocy.

[bobcfed08.livejournal.com]

"Don't make fun of fat people--they have an illness. Just like alcoholics, they are sick."

Normally I'd be quick to jump in and comfort you, but you can't really take this sort of garbage seriously. Overweight people are overweight... it's simple as that. Some are trouble by it, others aren't. Only a problem if it's made out to be one.

Heh... and saying it's some sort of mental illness doesn't really make anybody take this guy's opinion into high regard, not anybody intelligent anyway =)

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

It isn't the actual content of the post that gets me so much as its existence... and all the 'yeah, you tell 'em!' responses below. Yet more evidence that there's millions of people in the world that hate me without even knowing anything about me, simply because I'm not shaped the way they've decided I should be.

[bobcfed08.livejournal.com]

Heh... yeah. Not really being overweight myself, I can't take too much offense at that post. But it's not only incredibly stupid, it's being heralded as an intelligent, thoughtful post. Such things can't be allowed. Thus my post in his thread =)

[emsworth.livejournal.com]

::wolverines intervene by devouring assorted foodstuffs and the odd wallpaper hanging, hug the Jenny, and wander off to maul assorted tactless individuals with a variety of condiments::

And comments about "mental illness" are another kettle of fish entirely (though to some extent probably something which is more worthy of concern and consideration than other's unfounded opinions of one's appearance, though that can lead to a certain amount of brooding itself, which leads one to wonder to what extent mental problems are the result of not merely external factors and incidents internal thought processes, and whether the super-ego is repressing the id, and...
[::wolverines devour ramblings while they're at it, and Otu licks the soft pseudo-Freudian bits::]

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

*hands you the Ears of Power*

[malver.livejournal.com]

Doesn't especially please me, fwiw, that one obtuse (though I guess not the most obtuse) comment in that thread, is from someone in the intersection of my friends and friend-of lists. Someone I knew back in college, actually.

Grrrr..

Sic 'im, Cleo.

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

I actually went back and checked the comments to that thread just to make sure that none of the people in agreement were LJfriends of mine. I would've defriended any who were. Nobody who has that low an opinion of me for how I look deserves to read my more private entries. *nods firmly*

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[malver.livejournal.com]

Since his statement was
> Even at fast food places, don't they usually sell salad-type things?

he seems basically to have been commenting just on the lawsuit itself- so I'm unsure whether to, as it were, go that far.
Now on the other hand, another contributor to the thread (who was definitely not 'in agreement'), manhattan, is someone I've known of for a while now, a good friend of a good friend, on the other hand, and someone I really should add to my friends list, converse with and hope would reciprocate...

THOSE PEOPLE MAKE ME SICK

[vanish.livejournal.com]

This is what I said....

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Do not hate the fat. Do not mistreat and certainly do not make fun of the fat. But don't let them off the hook-- they are sick. They have an illness. They are alchoholics and need an intervention, not a hug.

That was extremely offensive to me. Yes, I'm fat, but I do eat right (and 3 times a day, not 202028497293874981234 like some of you like to think), work out, and play sports. I am NOT sick, and I do NOT want your pity.

Alcoholics are addicted to a substance that is deadly. Obsese people are just obese. Sure, some of them have an unhealthy attachment to food, but not all of us do. Some of us are just born with more fat cells than others. Should you toss me into a 30 day rehab program for that? I'd like to see it happen. Tell you what, next time you see a fat person walk down the street and you're offended by it, try and look the other way. Good day.

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I've been getting shit for my weight since I was a child. I am used to people being assholes about it, but it still pisses me off! Ugh, I just want to strangle someone! >:( It's so easy to pick on us, is the problem. Dumbass twigs need to get sat on. >:(

Re: THOSE PEOPLE MAKE ME SICK

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you were able to mount some kind of counterargument. All I could do was poke my head in, point out one logical fallacy, then run away to cry.

[steaksammich.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what this accomplished, but it sure amused the heck out of me.

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Let it never be said that Brian does not rock. *hugs Brian, then hands him some poisoned but very very yummy cow*

[steaksammich.livejournal.com]

Yay! I couldn't eat this cow without sharing, though. So you can have some too!

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Hooray!