Alecta
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ORIGINAL: SailingBum Are you FREAKING kidding me you are whining about stretch marks??? To put your lame whine in perspective I have glaucoma approx 20% of the ppl that have it go blind. Do you hear me whining? My attempt to point out to the OP that she is prolly the luckiest person I know that has nothing better to do than whine about her fat ass. I am on the board of directors of a non profit org. The ppl we help have what I refer to as "real issues". They are sick without medical Ins. They can't pay their utilities, can't feed themselves the list is endless. So when someone talks about I'm to fat, my spouse is a jerk... You're getting a free pass on the fat thing since you've obviously never given birth. Under normal circumstances I'd agree, being fat is usually a personal lifestyle choice. Not so post pregnancy, and the complaint there isn't really about how much their bodyshape has changed, but the feeling of being betrayed by your own body. The same difference between putting your own eye out doing a jackass stunt and contracting glaucoma. Funny thing, these things you list as real issues, I find hard to sympathise with coming from a similar position of non-profit volunteerism and community support. There's maybe 10% of the people helped by non-profit orgs who really deserve it, and 60% of the people we're supposed to be targeted at helping somehow manage on their own without our help while the rest fall through the cracks. (Maybe it's a locale thing.) There's a lady who needs chronic help with her co-pay (canadian national med insurance doesn't pay for everything) to get treatments... for diseases she doesn't have, which she blames her whalish weight on. There's the guy who drives a jag living in the yuppie side of town who can't afford his utilities (guess why). The woman who comes back every three to six months for help claiming her child support payments from her ex (who's on a fixed income)-- so she can get her once a month trip at one of the swankiest hair salons in town. The couple who needs extra help feeding their baby, because they keep blowing their earnings and allowances on booze and drugs. These aren't real issues, they're consequences. And we're just supposed to gloss over the second half of each of these sentences and cases. So when someone talks about "i'm too fat" or "my spouse is a jerk" and isn't looking for handouts or vindication, I'm glad. And if I don't want to listen or deal with it, I skip the conversation. That's m y soapbox rant of the day.
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