the skinny...

[bluecastle]

I don't want to be all boring about weight and size. Mostly I don't even think about it except to put in in the "things I should do better" column. But I just read this article in the New York Times about stopping dieting and loving yourself thin (description mine), and I read through the comments with a sense of curiosity about the reactions to this idea.

There was the usual wank both ways -- the just eat less vs. I just want to live my life w/o counting calories, and I'm fine the way I am arguments.

And one commenter I found funny,  talking about her husband's statement about how "not everyone is a chihuahua, there are newfoundlands too." (well it made me laugh)

But the comment that got me to thinking, was the comment that talked about how people in general look at other people's physical appearance and assume a lifestyle based on it. Not that this is a unique thought. But it just sort of hit me, and made me think about what that says.

Are we really all walking around making such sweeping assumptions about each other. (Yeah. Probably. Sure.) (Seriously, and to relate it back to my post yesterday, where is all the judgment coming from?)

WHY? Why are we assuming. Why aren't we just meeting people and finding out about them for realz?

Real people are so much more interesting than stereotypes!!

Comments

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

One look at my appearance and it becomes obvious that I was dropped on my head as a child.XD

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

LOL!!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Obviously you have seen me.

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

DON'T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE AND DO THINGS INJURIOUS TO YOUR PERSONAGE!!

no one is being dropped on anyone's head. and even if you had been dropped on your head, we would still luv u.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Haahaha. Last night, I was laughing with a friend about the fact that when I was a child, I was apparently so easy going and quiet that my parents had me tested for deafness, and then when it was obvs that I wasn't deaf. they had me tested for retardation. Or something. Haahaha. How LOLarious is that?

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

are you trying to say you're making up for lost time? :)

apparently I was a mouthy little bitch at five. but school soon beat that out of me. I still have the kindygarden report cards that have comments from the teacher like "she needs to learn to stop telling ME what to do."

ha. I like to think I knew what was going on when I was five.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

You probably did!

I was too quiet. I still am. Except online. HERE I AM A BITCH! LOLOR5. I LOVE IT.

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

online bitchiness. I gotta get me some of that!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

TASTES LIKE BURNING!

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

I thought it was supposed to taste like chicken?

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Or raspberries, apparently.