I saw that there was a Fat Girls Hiking book and I thought that was fantastic! I personally hate the heat and the bugs so I'm not a hiking fan myself, but I love that they are reaching out to folks who feel like it's something they'd like but feel like it's not somewhere they'd 'fit in'. It was one of the things I liked about working at the Y - I could see the relief in some folks' faces when they walked in and saw me standing at the desk. And I always felt that by working out there, it might give courage to someone to say 'well if she's here I won't be the only fat person here!'
The Prettiest Star sounds good, but I had to laugh at your description of the teenage sister's comments. "Nervous as hens"? "loaves of uncooked dough"? That only sounds feasible if it was something her mother said all the time and she started copying it. I feel like I was the most sheltered, naive person growing up. Just totally didn't understand ANYTHING.
Ugh, children of god. I am admittedly a bit baffled that they surveyed their members and in such a way that they could get that the female adults were all traumatized. Like, what happened that they suddenly decided that they cared about this after all those years of just seeing women as a means to an end? Also very much hope they raised the age of consent to, like, an ACTUAL age of consent. There's a woman i've seen on Instagram who grew up in a cult like this and talks a lot about how women are "trained" from a young age at EVERYTHING including stuff like how they modulate their voices and stuff like that. Crazy and terrible.
I honestly don't know how people keep working as waiters given the terrible hours, shitty pay, and craptastic customers. It is at least relatively quick cash (if you get cash tips) and presumably with some experience under your belt, you could get a job at a higher-end place which in theory would have better tips. But, wait, they don't tip in europe, right? So the pay is just terrible everywhere? I've always been a big tipper but ffs, how is it even possible that we continue to have people willing to bring us food in restaurants? Or work in restaurants at all?
Believe in people sounds so uplifting! We sure need it.
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Date: 2023-07-02 12:44 am (UTC)The Prettiest Star sounds good, but I had to laugh at your description of the teenage sister's comments. "Nervous as hens"? "loaves of uncooked dough"? That only sounds feasible if it was something her mother said all the time and she started copying it. I feel like I was the most sheltered, naive person growing up. Just totally didn't understand ANYTHING.
Ugh, children of god. I am admittedly a bit baffled that they surveyed their members and in such a way that they could get that the female adults were all traumatized. Like, what happened that they suddenly decided that they cared about this after all those years of just seeing women as a means to an end? Also very much hope they raised the age of consent to, like, an ACTUAL age of consent. There's a woman i've seen on Instagram who grew up in a cult like this and talks a lot about how women are "trained" from a young age at EVERYTHING including stuff like how they modulate their voices and stuff like that. Crazy and terrible.
I honestly don't know how people keep working as waiters given the terrible hours, shitty pay, and craptastic customers. It is at least relatively quick cash (if you get cash tips) and presumably with some experience under your belt, you could get a job at a higher-end place which in theory would have better tips. But, wait, they don't tip in europe, right? So the pay is just terrible everywhere? I've always been a big tipper but ffs, how is it even possible that we continue to have people willing to bring us food in restaurants? Or work in restaurants at all?
Believe in people sounds so uplifting! We sure need it.
Thanks for sharing, as always!