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[merchimerch]

I was not the fattest person in the gym today. This makes me very happy. I like seeing fat people like myself out being active and healthy. I like breaking the stereotype that fat=lazy or fat=inactive.

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[iyindo.livejournal.com]

it's odd... i realized when i read that that the word "fat" rarely comes to mind as an adjective when i think of you. when i think of you, i think of tanya with the long blond hair who dances like me and plays dutar and speaks russian and is specializing in Uzbek music. not to blow smoke up your ass... but when i think of you, the word 'beautiful' comes to mind sooner than 'fat'. and since i find that sorta delightful, i thought i'd share.

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[merchimerch.livejournal.com]

well thanks, but I'd like to think that beautiful and fat are not mutually exclusive. On my better body image days I try to take fat as just another attribute that I possess, not a value judgement or eternal damnation to the ugly corner. my body type is naturally fat just like i am naturally blonde with blue eyes. I could change these attributes if I wanted to, paid enough money, spent enough time, etc. Nonetheless my body, left to its own devices, is just like that. I am trying really hard to believe that it doesn't make me bad or good, pretty or ugly - it just makes me me.