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- From: sapphire@wings.micro.umn.edu (Theresa Jarosz Alberti)
- Newsgroups: alt.support.big-folks
- Subject: Re: My first issue of BBW/fat buttons
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.223559.4678@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:35:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.142148.27487@news2.cis.umn.edu> Jill Hollifield,
- jill@gopher.ccbr.umn.edu writes:
- >P.S. Just had to share an experience with you. Over the weekend, I was
- >at our local feminist/lesbian bookstore picking up my Fall copy of
- >Radiance, and while digging through the political buttons (looking
- >for one with the pink triangle that says "Straight but Not Narrow" -
- >anyone know where I can find one?) I came across one that says "Fat
- >Can Be Beautiful". I took a deep breath, and pinned it to my coat (after
- >paying for it of course! :) ) I'm sick of comments on the street, and
- >didn't know if this would be an open invitation for more. But the
- >response has been great! The most negative thing that's happened is
- >one store clerk just stared at it and then rolled her eyes. For the
- >most part, it creates smiles, laughs, an occasional "All right!",
- >and one man who stopped me and said "That's so true, I love bigger
- >women, you all are *real* women!" I'm having a lot of fun with it.
-
- Hooray for you for buying it and wearning it! I think it is a very brave
- thing to do, one I'm not so sure I could do myself (I feel a little
- relieved to not have seen a button like this yet, so I don't have to
- challenge myself yet)!
-
- I would never have expected the responses you've had from wearing the
- button. Maybe the world isn't so entirely screwed up as I'd thought!
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- >
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