Wednesday's Open Thread

2012-08-01 07:15 pm (UTC)

I've had to put up with a lot of weird body-shaming/dieting type stuff over the past couple days. Like my boss was confused by the fact that I don't count calories/carbs/anything. And then there was this discussion at dinner last night (at the Cheesecake Factory of all places) about dieting.

I'm fat, always have been, always will be, and it's just tiring to have to deal with the constant pressure to be thin.

2012-08-01 07:32 pm (UTC)

I also need delicious friends to help out with my nightmares in Echo Bazaar. I want to keep all my strange dreams. ;~;

2012-08-02 12:12 am (UTC)

I could help you! I dunno how to add friends, though.

2012-08-03 04:53 pm (UTC)

Did you sign up with Facebook or Twitter? Because adding friends that way is easy but I have no idea how to do it if you signed up via email.

2012-08-03 06:38 pm (UTC)

Both!

2012-08-03 06:39 pm (UTC)

What's your twitter? I can follow you and then we'll be friends. :3

2012-08-03 06:45 pm (UTC)

moarmoonfire

2012-08-02 12:11 am (UTC)

I feel like I've seen it all. Bosses who tried to recruit me into whatever overpriced bullshit diet fad they were following, women staff pressuring me into fad diets and "losers pools"... the whole nine yards.

[rolleyes]

It is total fucking bullshit, but very hard to fight because while being above the "ideal" weight is ridiculously common, apparently being content at that weight is freakish. At least I'm aware that my discontent with being fat doesn't come from within. It's artificially imposed. How can it not be when we're bombarded by diet-mania almost literally every fucking second? (Hell, all my icons of women are of thin women. What else is there for us to admire out there? Even Roseanne Barr eventually got skinny, IIRC.)

I sometimes hang around the Health at Every Size page to perk myself up. I want my own copy of their book, too, but I have to scratch out some funds first.

maynardsong

2012-08-01 07:18 pm (UTC)

I'm really liking My Litte Pony Friendship is Magic. Also, I hate my life presently, so I wish I lived in Equestria.

mythrai

2012-08-01 07:28 pm (UTC)

you know that episode where mr burns gets a physical and the doctor tells him that all his diseases are crowded up inside of him in a delicate balance? that's me but with feelings

its_anya

2012-08-01 07:55 pm (UTC)

I'm moving to Paris in 7 days. I've never even been there before. Hah.

2012-08-01 07:58 pm (UTC)

That sounds exciting and terrifying. Good luck!

teacoat

2012-08-01 08:15 pm (UTC)

I have a job interview on Friday, and another on Monday. Now, of course I might not get offered either job, or I might only get offered one of them, but I am paralyzed by the thought that I might get both of them and have to choose. One of them is New York, where just about all of my friends live, where I have ALWAYS wanted to live, but the other is close to my family and I'd finally get to live with my partner after two years of varying degrees of long distance. The one in New York is a writer/editor position which is what I love doing, but I'm not sure how well it pays, and it's probably about half of what the other one is (it's a sales position). And if I took the job in New York I'd probably have to live with strangers, because none of my friends need a roommate, but even thinking about that sends me into fits of anxiety. :/ And then I feel bad for feeling bad because I know so many people who are having such shit luck trying to find a job and they'd probably laugh in my face because it's such a ridiculously privileged conundrum but it all just makes me feel so anxious. :/

Edited at 2012-08-01 08:15 pm (UTC)

2012-08-02 12:18 am (UTC)

...because it's such a ridiculously privileged conundrum...

I've had a nightmarish four years of cycling between crummy temp jobs and the Unemployment Office. (I swear my file over there must be thicker than the last Harry Potter book by now.)

But I'm still privileged. I have family to help me out (to the best of their abilities), and I'm very aware that it's privilege to still have a used computer, a place to live, and three meals a day (even when I can't buy my comics, damnit).

Everything is relative, and I don't blame people with great job prospects for that fact that I'm not working. The job market stinks due to issues way bigger than a few people who have great job prospects in their particular field(s).

I'll cross my fingers for you.

2012-08-02 12:23 am (UTC)

The U.S. Green Party has an all-female ticket this year. I can't wait to vote for them, even if feminist blogs are (as usual) living down to my expectations as a 3rd-Party voter by roundly ignoring their existence. (Hell, Time and Businessweek managed better coverage than any feminist blog I could find by googling "Jill Stein" + the name of feminist blogs that I used to frequent, back in the day.)

Tough shit. What was that adage about how you don't convert a person merely by silencing them...? :p

2012-08-02 12:57 am (UTC)

Oh that's awesome! I hadn't heard about that at all. Go Green Party!

nonnycat

2012-08-03 07:03 am (UTC)

That's awesome! I haven't heard of any of that; you would not have links by any chance?