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Wow. Look - hot buttons.
Mar. 20th, 2002 08:53 amIt's amazing what happens when you remove tone from an argument.
Take Kit Mason going out on a limb about 'fan-shaped' fans. Maybe I didn't hear the condescension in her post because I've met her, and I agree with her - I worry about the health of fan-shaped fans in general. Livia, um, didn't exactly agree.
I can see Livia's defensiveness - I have a touch of it myself, since I've recently moved up from a 10 to a 12. When you work on a college campus, that's not exactly skinny. But I walk to work half the time; I take the stairs to run down to the SCC for breakfast and lunch; odd mornings I do yoga stretches. I don't ever weigh myself, but I try to stay healthy.
Because, well... Mom's a 4X. She gets winded going up a flight of stairs. Dad and I flat out worry about her health, and how we can get her to be more active - we want to have her around for another forty, fifty years, and not wheelchair-bound like her mother, unable to even stand on her own two feet. I love my mother dearly, and the thought of being her size scares the hell out of me.
Weight does not equate fat. Size isn't everything. To me, a healthy self-image is more important than a figure on a set of scales. But if you can't make it up a set of stairs? That's what concerns me about my family, friends, and fan-shaped fans.
It seems to me that's also where Kit's coming from. I could be wrong.
Take Kit Mason going out on a limb about 'fan-shaped' fans. Maybe I didn't hear the condescension in her post because I've met her, and I agree with her - I worry about the health of fan-shaped fans in general. Livia, um, didn't exactly agree.
I can see Livia's defensiveness - I have a touch of it myself, since I've recently moved up from a 10 to a 12. When you work on a college campus, that's not exactly skinny. But I walk to work half the time; I take the stairs to run down to the SCC for breakfast and lunch; odd mornings I do yoga stretches. I don't ever weigh myself, but I try to stay healthy.
Because, well... Mom's a 4X. She gets winded going up a flight of stairs. Dad and I flat out worry about her health, and how we can get her to be more active - we want to have her around for another forty, fifty years, and not wheelchair-bound like her mother, unable to even stand on her own two feet. I love my mother dearly, and the thought of being her size scares the hell out of me.
Weight does not equate fat. Size isn't everything. To me, a healthy self-image is more important than a figure on a set of scales. But if you can't make it up a set of stairs? That's what concerns me about my family, friends, and fan-shaped fans.
It seems to me that's also where Kit's coming from. I could be wrong.
