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In reply to the discussion: Fat "acceptance" - from the PoV of a fat person [View all]DemMomma4Sanders
(274 posts)The momentary disgust i feel for an individual passes quick and i begin to do as u say I should....put myself in their shoes.
For an individual...this is how I feel. Not for a Parent. They don't deserve that consideration before the health and welfare of the children are concidered.
I was raped, grew up in group homes where a pat on the back was much less common than foreign appendages in my orifices.
None of this gives me the right to shove "comfort" food in my childs mouth simply because I'm overwhelmed. Its easy to prepare meals that will feed for days while managing multiple tasks around the house. When you have children YOU'RE comfort, convenience comes after their care. No matter your past.
Its possible, moreover its my DUTY and its my childs right to recieve as healthful and nourishing an environment as I am intellectually capable of providing for them.
I really hate when people bring up their past to excuse bad habits and crimes. There are millions of immigrants maintaining America today who suffered far worse yet maintain better familial bonds than the average caucasian family in the US.
Im not sneering at obese people who are damning their children to a life as miserable as their own....my face remains rather stonelike in that moment.
I hate them with every fiber of my being. I hate their assumptions that they've had it harder than everyone else, I hate their neglect for their children.....and i hate their excuses that allow the vicious cycle to continue.