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i haven't seen very much of this kind of attitude here--for many years, i was about 150-200 lbs. overweight--i lost much of it along the way (somehow--i think stopping drinking and cutting out all processed foods account for most of it in my case--but i was fortunate in that my genetic predisposition to put on weight was not correlated with a metabolism that made loosing it difficult to impossible--but i only discovered this along the way--i thought for years that my weight simply was as it was--so my situation is particular)---i remain quite sensitive about this kind of discrimination based on conventional body-image notions.
i would run into it all the time, in contexts where it was not really spoken aloud, like clothing stores where i could not find anything that fit---in "large size" clothing outlets where the operative assumption seemed to be that if you were this size, you did not need clothing that was designed well or that was made from good fabric---
so i carry what is i guess a hyperawareness of this kind of thing around with me---and i would react to it if i saw it here.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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