savage.

spotted on last week's savage love:

"From a European perspective, it is both baffling and hilarious to read the vitriolic, pious, unhinged views that the whole fat "thing" provokes in the USA. To all but a tiny handful of Europeans it is so self-evident as to preclude all possible debate that being anything above about a size 16 (which translates to a size 10/12 in the U.S., I believe) makes you a lardy, lazy, unhealthy, sweaty, smelly,, unattractive piece of soon-to-die-early shit."

it is people like that who make me, an american who remains within the confines of what this cretin has decreed "acceptable" (albeit the upper end), ashamed of the way i look.

nothing like someone else's hate-filled diatribe to start your day off right. i wish that people could harness that kind of vitriol and use it for something constructive, such as getting hail to the chimp out of office or making plan b available over the counter, instead of simply telling other people that their appearance makes them worthless. less than worthless; a drain on society.

fuck this beauty-as-currency nonsense.

fuck you, mister letter writer, for making me question my own worth because my beauty doesn't conform to your social ideal.

and fuck me for allowing again this insecurity into my heart. because it's a hard one to banish.

but there you are.