Teri Garr gets a pass for being Teri Garr!
I do judge what other people buy, but silently. I would never say anything out loud to make someone uncomfortable. I don't know what kind of person that makes me.
Like when I was riding the bus for years, I once witnessed a girl who was very large having trouble balancing one butt cheek on the end of a forward facing seat. While I was silently being glad I wasn't that big, I realized that the sideways facing seat I was in would accomodate her better, so I offered to switch seats, for which she was very grateful and I was happy she was more comfortable.
I don't know what kind of person that makes me.
Nice and human! (At least I like to think I am.)
Nice and human!
Thanks, but I can only feel comfortable with owning the human part.
Yeah on walking while fat. Walking, jogging, hiking, you name it and I have been harassed doing it.
I even bought a jogging suit once to let them know I meant business, to no avail.
I got more of it when I was in my 20's, trying to lose weight, until I did lose weight and I got less of it.
What always amazes me is the vitriol. What on earth did someone do to them to make then think they need to call me a "fat fucker!" (Alliteration is quite popular to these people.) or other expletive?
Generally I have found commenters to be boys in their late teens or early 20's, and generally out to impress others of similar ilk.
Another epithet is the eternally hilarious "lose weight!" As if the thought had never occurred to me, and they were being the soul of wit.
As I get older, I get less of it. I'm not sure if it's the growing obesity problem in the US, and they actually know fat people or what...
My mom makes derogatory remarks about people's weight under her breath to me despite the fact that I have repeatedly told her to stop.
There is something conflicted about a society that is increasingly overweight, yet mocks fat people for exercising and makes decent exercise clothes for larger sizes expensive and hard to find. Of course, this is the same society in which the women's magazine covers tout "Lose that Last 10 Pounds" and "10 Best Chocolate Desserts."
I have been known to be at least amused by other people's carts. I stopped at an all night grocery one time to buy coffee and pet food, which along with toilet paper are the things I'd stop for at 2 a.m. The person in front of me was buying two bags of marshmallows and a game of checkers. Terrible insomnia and a craving for Rice Krispy Treats, maybe?
or a really boring, well-sugared camping trip! i make up elaborate stories for other people's cart contents all the time, but i keep them to myself (or maybe a snarky friend). I especially love running into theatre people doing emergency prop runs, those are almost always entertaining. "oh crap, we're out of extra large unlubricated condoms and skittles!" is surprisingly common.
eta: sure, it's usually the sound folks buying the huge unlubed condoms, but it's not uncommon for SM or Prop person to pick up an emergency pack when backstage is running low.
There is something conflicted about a society that is increasingly overweight, yet mocks fat people for exercising and makes decent exercise clothes for larger sizes expensive and hard to find. Of course, this is the same society in which the women's magazine covers tout "Lose that Last 10 Pounds" and "10 Best Chocolate Desserts."
Ginger hits it in one.
Society loves status quo. We will revile what we will not tolerate seeing changed. This is why people repeat the same patterns over and over again and why addicts get clean only to go back to the alley. There is HUGE social 'support' for keeping things the way they are.
Screw'em, I say. Choose to be happy anyway. That'll learn 'em. Or at least, that is what works for me.
