tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703913.post116214645847583287..comments2023-10-02T04:41:34.722-04:00Comments on Marry in Massachusetts: Fat Chance, Fat Manmassmarrierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358207247771711952noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703913.post-1162243476135579752006-10-30T16:24:00.000-05:002006-10-30T16:24:00.000-05:00Even the thin through illness can be fashionable. ...<I>Even the thin through illness can be fashionable. Nancy Reagan's long-term treatment for anemia doesn't get much coverage. Many point to her frail frame as enviable.</I><BR/><BR/>about ten years ago my mother contracted an illness that caused her to drop close to forty pounds over a few months. while i was running home from college every weekend to make sure she wasn't about to die, her coworkers were pouting enviously and asking what her fabulous secret was. it was unbelievable. after she became healthy again, she returned to her normal weight--and couldn't stand the sight of herself. she's been on some form of diet or another pretty much the whole time since then.<BR/><BR/>"healthy weight" is precisely that--the weight at which one is healthy. sadly, the weight at which some people would be physically healthy is different from the weight that makes them feel mentally and emotionally stable in the face of society's disdain for all but the trimmest of the trim.juniper pearlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09940950405860078123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703913.post-1162234710668357452006-10-30T13:58:00.000-05:002006-10-30T13:58:00.000-05:00The "morphs" are good concepts. The three major so...The "morphs" are good concepts. The three major somotypes -- ectomorph, mesomorph and endomorph -- are pretty much the way we're built. Few are entire one type, but we lean toward one. So telling a person whose body does not put on muscle mass even when they try to get big biceps makes as much sense as telling someone who tends to mass fatty tissue in the legs and butt to exercise it off. Right now ectomorphic bodies are fashionable.<BR/><BR/>You're right on about not picking on folk. Would that we cared more whether someone was honest, empathetic and bright.massmarrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02358207247771711952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703913.post-1162228961032854412006-10-30T12:22:00.000-05:002006-10-30T12:22:00.000-05:00There certainly is nothing constructive in ridicul...There certainly is nothing constructive in ridiculing someone for being overweight. Or for being thin. "Ectomorphs" Might be a technical descriptor, but sounds perjoritive here. This is the land of crass capitalism, so there will always be someone trying to make money off of people's insecurities, whether about weight or whatever. So I'm not surprised by the gas mileage calculations, etc. Our society is so screwed up. When you have to DRIVE to get to a gym to exercise, something is terribly wrong. If we had daily routines that actually required walking and moving around during the course of the workday, we'd be so much healthier and weight would be a rare issue. But exercise gym corporations and cool geeky exercise gadgets are lucrative makers of profit, and mesh well with the demands of the capitalist workplace that forces people to work, eat and exercise in discrete sessions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com