Should Fat Women Wear Short Skirts?

This is a question I've asked myself a million times. Should fat women wear short skirts? And at this point my answer is yes. Now I'm not talking like two inches below your hips short, but I do mean a little above the knee. Now my personal experience with short skirts is...well rather limited. You see I own several short skirts, but I can pretty much count the number of times I've worn them on one hand. But today I felt like dressing up and one of my long skirts that I was gonna wear has seen better days. And the other skirt I have that stops just below the knee is in need of ironing. So...I pulled out the shortest skirt I own. And I'm still looking down at my legs going, "Wow those are white!"

Now as I said before the skirt shouldn't be so short that you are threatening to flash people when you go walking out the door, but sometimes something a little shorter is very liberating. But I still feel really self-conscious when I go out in anything that goes above my knees even if I wear a pair of thigh highs that look completely awesome! I still look around going, "Is anyone staring at me?"

I've also often read/been told, that my walking out the door in anything other than a sack is a statement. So does a short skirt make me a loud mouth?

Fat Women Talking

Recently I started listening toTwo Whole Cakes Fatcast (http://fatcast.twowholecakes.com/ ) with Marianne Kirby and Lesley Kinzel. And I can't tell you how much I look forward to each new episode. Both of these women are very entertaining to listen to even when they're talking about the heavier (haha) issue of health care and doctors.  They have made me laugh at least once with each and every episode, and they have a lot of good advice for all fat women.

Their latest episodes were about Fatshion. And I can really connect with this. They talked about how even where they live, and I think they both live in larger cities, there are only two or three stores that they can shop at. I live in Billings Montana. Not a huge city but not small by any means. And we don't have one adult plus sized store. We have Debs, Maurices, and C. J. Banks. Debs and Maurices caters to munchkins, and my 60 year old mother wouldn't shop at C. J. Banks. So I fall into the category of women who don't have access to plus sized clothes unless I shop online. And I hate shopping online unless I know that what I'm buying is gonna fit me.

They also talked about price, and what kind of fabrics most stores use for plus sized clothes.

As a result of these two episodes I also went to eShakti.com and I am in love with their clothes. They have some of the cutest dresses and shirts and just clothes in general.

So that is me gushing over these things for a little bit.

Fat Bashing

Yes it's been a very long time and right when I get back here I get up on my soap box.

*gets out soap box and stands on it*

So recently a friend of mine at ( http://fatheffalump.wordpress.com/ ) stepped forward against a post by one Mia Freedman who is the Chair on the National Body Image Taskforce in Australia. Now the reason she stepped forward is that Ms. Freedman in a post on her own blog ( http://www.mamamia.com.au/weblog/2010/05/meet-the-people-who-want-to-be-as-fat-as-possible.html ) seemed to instead be attacking all fat people by putting forward the Gainers, people who want to get as big as possible, as being freaks, and not as if they have a disorder much like Bulimia or Anorexia. (Also note that the blog entry has been edited several times since the debate started to make the post seem more acceptable)

As a result of this several media outlets in Australia have begun articles on the debate. ( http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/body-blogger-mia-freedman-gets-heavied/story-e6frf7jo-1225865736734 ) Unfortunately after reading this article I realized how many people are willing to fat bash.

Many of the comments on the article above, are all about how fat people are lazy, how they're ugly, how they make society spend more money on them, how they just need to get out and do some exercise, or how they like to point fingers because their ego's are so fragile. These people want to make me scream and cry at the same time. But the time and energy that would take is time and energy I can use more appropriately by writing a blog or by going out with a girlfriend, or getting ready for my weekend in Utah.

I also would like to give a round of applause for the women interviewed and the other side of the comment stream who stood up for us "fatties" and said that the things said in the blog were inflammatory and Ms. Freedman should consider how she words things as she is in a position to influence many people's opinions.

Let me say something about the bashers though before I get off my soapbox. They are insecure in their own way. They need to bash someone who they think is worse off than they are to feel good about themselves.

*gets off the soap box*

So that's fat bashing and I'm gonna go do something with this energy.