Soiree...

Went to a "soiree" the other night.
Hoity toity.
All that jazz.

A few of the guy's noticed I kept declining the BBQ and stuck to the veggies.

So finally, one of them asked:
"What, are you a vegetarian or something?" (asked rudely).

"I am," I SMILED back - and just left it at that.

I hate it when people ram ANYTHING down your throat - so I figured a polite and short answer would suffice.

"Hmm...", he said. "I thought vegetarians were supposed to be SKINNY."

Stop. The. Fucking. Press.

Not only did you just enquire rudely about my eating habbits, you then plop a cherry on top by calling me fat.

Now - I know I COULD afford to lose like, 5 pounds or so...but you know what? FUCK THAT.
I refuse to feel bad about myself anymore - I've done it for far too long.
I've struggled with body image since I was 9 years old and frankly, I'm sick of it.
We all want a perfect body - we all aren't going to get it.
That's a part of life.

It's fuckwads like this - who make people feel bad for being what they are.

In short - if you're fat - be fat.
if you're thin - FUCK YOU!

Just kidding.

but seriously...making a remark like that to a stranger - OR to someone you know is a VERY ugly thing to do.
it brings your self-esteem down a notch. That's a HORRIBLE thing to do to anyone and I have no idea why he tried to do it with me.

Mind you, I didn't exactly react with dignity either.
I went "crazy vegetarian ACTIVIST" on his ass.

I told him he must be mis-informed about what a vegetarian can eat - and that I'm living proof - having a little extra luggage around my mid-section - that you can still be healthy on a vegetarian diet.

I also told him how frightening it is when people - especially someone at a party promoting GAY RIGHTS and GAY PRIDE - display a closed-minded mentality about things that differ from them - and that ANY hostility he has towards vegetarians is probably just his own internalized GUILT about eating meat morphing into something ugly - like an insult to put me down.

I love helping people re-associate themselves with the animals they have learned to call meat. I love helping people UNLEARN. I am STILL in the process of UNLEARNING myself.

But this fucker. he had some kind of big bully syndrome going on...

People HATE vegetarians for some reason. They become AFRAID. They want to make them feel stupid, lowly, RIDICULOUS - DUMB.

I would in turn - like to extend a BIG THANK YOU to this person - who said those ignorant and RUDE words to me.
I would like to THANK HIM - because you just cracked open a WHOLE NEW can of worms.
I vow - NEVER AGAIN - to feel ashamed of my CHOICE to NOT SUPPORT the meat industry.
And I vow - NEVER AGAIN - to feel any shame in ANY extra pounds I carry around my waist.

So thank you, Mr. Insult, for helping me out in your round-about way.
I'm gonna have me a big OLE slice of watermelon - and LOVE IT!!!

Dan