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Couldn't help but lol @ this and consider the parallels with the plight of the bald/ugly man when I saw this article:
A moment that changed me: lashing out at a man who opened the door for the newly thin me
The agonizing moment a former butterloaf comes to the realization that people treat you differently based on your looks. Took her until her mid-40s to clock that her morbid obesity may have been holding her back in certain areas and now she's f*****g raging. Society's fault for being shallow innit.
"He opened that door for me because I wasn’t physically offensive to him, and I knew. And it was in that moment that I realised how terrible we are as a society to people, based solely on their appearance. This realisation broke me"
"And when that realisation came, I grieved for the child, teenager and woman I had been and all she had been deprived of. I grieved for what experiencing that would do to my current self. And I grieved for all of the people who may have missed her along the way because they were too blind to see her."
While I certainly doubt anyone was "too blind to see her" (26 stone!) She chose to deprive herself of opportunities, experiences, respect, etc. etc. because she couldn't put down the Krispy Kremes until she was in her mid 40s. If only it was so simple for the bald/ugly person that becomes invisible to society through no fault of their own.
A moment that changed me: lashing out at a man who opened the door for the newly thin me
The agonizing moment a former butterloaf comes to the realization that people treat you differently based on your looks. Took her until her mid-40s to clock that her morbid obesity may have been holding her back in certain areas and now she's f*****g raging. Society's fault for being shallow innit.
"He opened that door for me because I wasn’t physically offensive to him, and I knew. And it was in that moment that I realised how terrible we are as a society to people, based solely on their appearance. This realisation broke me"
"And when that realisation came, I grieved for the child, teenager and woman I had been and all she had been deprived of. I grieved for what experiencing that would do to my current self. And I grieved for all of the people who may have missed her along the way because they were too blind to see her."
While I certainly doubt anyone was "too blind to see her" (26 stone!) She chose to deprive herself of opportunities, experiences, respect, etc. etc. because she couldn't put down the Krispy Kremes until she was in her mid 40s. If only it was so simple for the bald/ugly person that becomes invisible to society through no fault of their own.
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