25 Things Fat People Shouldn't Do (And Why I'm Going to Do Them)

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(Edit: I accidentally deleted this post.  Silly Stephanie.  So I found it on the net and republished it.  Sorry that I lost all your comments!)

I googled images using the search term "fat woman."  There are hundreds of vicious comics and jokes about fat women.  Pictures of Circus "Sideshow" women showed up too.  And fetish pornography.  For pages and pages.  But then there was one image that shone in the sea of jokes and fetishist's images.  So I posted it to introduce this post.

Why was I Google image searching "fat woman" in the first place?  That is a good question.  I got thinking about how fat women are portrayed because of a post the Jes wrote on The Militant Baker.  Jes found an ignorant and degrading list of 25 things fat people shouldn't do somewhere on this world wide web.  In true Jes fashion, she is giving the middle finger to that list, and she is going to do all of them. 

And she has inspired me to join her and add my middle finger to the writer of that list.  The only thing that fat women do wrong, is take up more space then men want them to.  That's it.  And is crazy that us fat women have to pay and suffer for that.  I'm not going to pay anymore without giving some change in return. (Yep.  University taught me how to write metaphors like that one.)  

Here is the list copied word for word from the idiotic internet source:

Do a cannonball

Swing at the park

Wear a bikini

Drive

Wear animal print

Eat in public

Wear shirts with glitter

Ride a scooter

Make art of themselves

Shimmy

Jump in an elevator
Be straight

Wear an ironic t-shirt

Go to the movies

Roll down a hill

Walk through a doorway

Run

Go to bars

Fly in an airplane

Sit on anything plastic

Dance

Wear a mumu

Sit at a booth

Ride a bike

Live.

So, this is a new series for this blog- I'm going to document me doing everything on this list.  Want to join in?  I think that is a fabulous idea.  Pop on over to The Militant Baker and read Jes' eloquent and rallying post.  Then start on that list, take pictures, and link it on back to Jes.  Let me know too, because I would really like to read about your action too!