Fat Moms Force Feed their Kids McDonald's

Read this post on Fierce Freethinking Fatties and see if the statistics tie your brain in knots like they did mine!

This was my response to the post:

Those statistics make my head spin, but I get the jist of what you're saying! My personal opinion is that McDonald's sucks because its corporate and evil. Like other big corporations (and like the Die-t industry) they do not give a flying shit in a hurricane about anyone's health. But to demonize anyone who may be extremely busy for trying to get food--any food--into their and their family's mouths, is wrong. The convenience of McPukeburger can be a siren song when you just don't have time. I'm not denying that the crap tastes good, but a homemade hamburger patty is better and then you can have two of them! 

I was one of those overworked, underpaid single fat moms that often ended up getting Burger King (my son couldn't abide McDonald's) on the way home from whatever low-paying job I was currently working at the time. As my son got older I learned about the crock pot and casseroles and such. 

I would never demonize anyone who's trying. And by the way, I like those frozen vegetables--including the ones with sauce!

Life is Too Short To Be a Bigot

Hi everyone,

I hope you'll help me make this idea go viral. Feel free to copy exactly what I've said here, or say it in your own words, then post it on your blog or website. Working to be one's healthiest, best self is one thing, but let's refute the notion of the "fat police" that larger people can't be healthy--or at the very least, deserving of the same kindness and respect of all humans. I for one have had it up to here (hand held over the top of the head) with all the heavy hatred and worse, the condoning of said heavy hatred as if it's okay to hurt the feelings of a larger person, that they are somehow not even human.

Here is the situation:

There was a moment on the Californication program where the main character's father tells him that "life is too short to dance with fat chicks." Plus size professional dancer Ragen Chastain blogged about this here http://danceswithfat.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/david-duchovny-fat-chick-dance/

In her post she expresses the wonderful idea that she and the show's star, David Duchovny, ought to dance together on your program to show that life is too short to make assumptions about a person because of their size.

The "fat chick" might just be the most fun person to dance with!

Now, what I'd like for you to do is to go to Ellen Degeneres' website and suggest this as an idea for her show!

And pass this on!