Fuck This Shit!

[yolen]

Rant ahead, hopefully mostly coherent, I'm running on fumes these days...

This is just plain appalling and wrong. And offensive and infuriating, speaking as a FAT Hispanic who has a 16 day old baby. I was fully aware of the fact that I needed to be careful with my weight gain during the pregnancy. My weight fluctuated towards the end of the pregnancy because of water retention, but I basically gained 15 pounds in real baby and baby related weight. My baby was 7lb 9oz and I was negative 5 pounds from pre-pregnancy weight a week after giving birth. My fat ass carried a baby and he is FINE & HEALTHY, he scored 8 & 9 on the apgar. I made sure to eat when I was hungry (and sometimes that hunger was so fierce, I felt I could cut a bitch if they got in the way of me and food) and not abusive "pregnancy privilege" and go insane "eating for 2"--I cannot for the life of me imagine what I would have been like and gone through if I was trying to shoot for no weight gain, or how that would have negatively impacted my son. My doctor, bless him, never gave me shit about my weight or weight gain and when I needed to be put on hypertensive meds halfway in the pregnancy, he didn't pontificate about how it happened cause of my weight. These assholes are full of shit, and certainly aren't giving a real shit about these mothers and their babies.

Comments

[mizerychick.livejournal.com]

Nobody who promotes a weight loss based only plan to any human gives a shit about health. Sandy is great - she knows what she's talking about.

[yolen.livejournal.com]

I've added her journal to my blogspot reads. Seems like good stuff!

[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

Gads. You know, I only have to take off my tinfoil hat for a *second* to become really suspicious of a junk-science program that results in increased infant mortality in poor minorities. Makes me want to start investigating program funding streams and see if any lead to white supremacy groups.

[mizerychick.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think it has far less to do with minorities, and more to do with the overall shaming and manipulation of fat people in general, and more specifically fat women.

[yolen.livejournal.com]

In this case, I'd say it's both. It's a Venn diagram of crap targeted at fat women and blacks/Hispanics. hell, toss in people living in poverty, as well. Shameful.

[mizerychick.livejournal.com]

Eh, I think the minority/poverty aspect of it is more coincidental than it is targeted. Wealthy fat white women are being told by their doctors to not gain or even lose weight and being shamed, dropped as patients, or being forced into c-sections as well, so I can't see this as anything other than practices that are being spread across all aspects of female reproductive health.

[http://users.livejournal.com/little_e_/]

My suspicions lean more toward regular ol' human idiocy and bigotry, rather than organized versions.

[everfound.livejournal.com]

Great job on gaining so little weight! It sounds like you did a really good job.

[yolen.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[breakableheart.livejournal.com]

Fat hate is never about health. That's the big disguise that makes people feel better about hating fatties.

[yolen.livejournal.com]

Seriously. Blah, blah, blah.

[http://users.livejournal.com/little_e_/]

Don't be silly. Those people are all poor, fat, minorities--and everyone knows that just having one of those characteristics is enough to make you a non-person who exists only for the amusement of the elites. These people are social trash; they should be thankful for the honor of being experimented on by unscrupulous elite medical researchers. Admittedly, modern science has long shown that these experiments produce only abysmal outcomes, but hey, we have to test them on someone in order to figure that out, right?

/sarcasm

[yolen.livejournal.com]

Yes, I guess I attained some level of personhood when I married Fings and was no longer poor, fat, and Hispanic :P.

Yeah, wtf is up with this world we live in?

[http://users.livejournal.com/little_e_/]

Married people are definitely more people than unmarried ones. That's why we can't let the gays get married.

I don't know. It's a strange world.

[yolen.livejournal.com]

Only so much person hood to go around :P.