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- From: marty@world.std.com (Marty M HaleEvans)
- Subject: Re: My first issue of BBW
- Message-ID: <By0vtH.33I@world.std.com>
- Organization: Cicely Public Access UNIX, Cicely, AK
- References: <97870@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Nov17.203947.3260@speedy.aero.org> <1992Nov18.142148.27487@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1992Nov20.075132.8028@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:15:17 GMT
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- marcia@netcom.com (Marcia) writes:
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- >years ago! I ought to go find it....I also have one that says "You too can
- >have a body like mine." First positive comments I can remember on being
- >large...
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- Um, be careful with that slogan. Maybe I'm being oversensitive, but it seems
- to me that it perpetuates the notion that we big folk are simply little folk
- who've made some sort of choice or non-choice. It's just not true that anyone
- can be fat, any more than that anyone can be thin. It may be easier right now
- for most people to get "fat", but I think that's more because of people's
- strange concept of what constitutes "fat", and the differences among fat,
- tall, naturally big, and out-of-shape not being well-recognized.
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- My concept of size positive consists of respect and celebration of all sizes
- and shapes -- not just little OR big. Forgive me for bringing up dogs again,
- but I hope we can love different sizes and shapes of people the way we do dogs.
- I like pugs, chows, greyhounds, shelties, terriers, and lots of other kinds;
- it would be silly to judge mastiffs in a show by the conformation standards
- of Yorkshire terriers, and most people wouldn't think of hating one only
- because it didn't look like the other (personal preference is a different
- matter). Hmm, I've gone on a lot longer than I'd planned....
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- Marty
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- "Seems like there ought to be a way we could look each other in the eye
- To see we're all in this together, and put all thoughts of victory aside.
- Seems like there ought to be a way we could turn this fear into trust;
- No matter what you say, there has to be a way --
- Every living thing is counting on us."
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- Marty Hale-Evans M @ * O % 8 U
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