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I once wrote a humor piece about a big-bellied man and a dancing girl. The girl was fascinated by the man’s belly, which led to a hilarious sexual escapade. Men who read that story like it. They say they like it because the girl admires the man’s flaw. I didn’t think of it as a flaw when I wrote it. I was thinking more about physics and possibilities.
Is a big belly a flaw?
Hmm…well I know this: I have been a very skinny girl forever and I eat a lot. In fact, at a funeral-after dinner I attended, a cousin of my boyfriend walked up to me, looked at my plate of food and said, “I admire a women that looks like you and actually eats like a normal person.”
It turns out that I had a metabolic-related disease. I was always starving because my body was running so fast. Food=fuel.
I have many friends, men and women, who eat tiny portions and still gain weight. Now that I am “fixed” I too will need to watch it. At least that’s what the doctor says. Basically I need to relearn how to eat or I will turn into a 300 pounder!
All of this got me thinking about weight and how we react to large people.
I think that people are large due to a physical (body malfunction) or emotional (brain dysfunction) problem. And really skinny people? Well, same thing…bulimia, anorexia, … The only difference here is that really skinny women get to be models because it is easier to display clothing on a hanger than on a real person. Designers need to grow up.
So if just maybe what I just said about weight is true, which of course you know it is, then laughing at a fat person is like laughing at someone with cancer or schizophrenia.
And just when did you become a font of perfection?
P.S. Okay I will fess up: I ate too much during Thanksgiving. I am writing this so if I should become a big fat girl all of you won’t laugh at me when you see me licking an ice cream cone. There.
