"Todd" > wrote in message
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> On 03/17/2013 04:01 PM, Billy wrote:
>> In article >, Todd >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/16/2013 03:26 PM, Billy wrote:
>>> > The precipitating incident is, essentially, living in this female-
>>> > hating culture. What begins as simple dieting ends in an addictive
>>> > cycle of either binging and purging or plain starvation.
>>>
>>> <snip for brevity>
>>>
>>> Wonderful exposition. You spent a lot of time writing
>>> all that up. And, it explains a lot too. Thank you!
>>>
>>> Fat bigotry affects both females and males. Employment,
>>> medical, personal relationships, etc.. But, females do
>>> take the brunt of it.
>>>
>>> And that kind of non-sense only happened after the television.
>>> We have calendars out here in Nevada filled with pictures
>>> of the pioneer days. All, and I mean ALL, of the females
>>> were fat babes. No one wanted a skinny one as they would
>>> not last the winter. (Fat babes are also prettier, sweeter,
>>> and more feminine. "And" they last through the winter.
>>> Who wants a wife that looks like a 14 year old boy.)
>>>
>>> Are you a girl or a guy? ("Billy" could be either.)
>>>
>>> -T
>>
>> My only point is that there is a certain set of concerns when you become
>> a vegetarian,including B12, tryptophan, or zinc.
>
> Don't forget Acetyl L-Carnitine and Carnosine. I think it is the height
> of arrogance to think our science can tell us everything to supplement
> with when you are doing something unnatural. Eventually we will be
> able to, but, I would posit, not before we develop long term frame
> space travel. (I pity the first victims. The space station may be
> solving some of the riddle.)

What's unnatural? Are you calling vegetarianism unnatural?
>
>>
>> Then there is the question of what drives a person to vegetarianism,
>> health, esthetics, ethics? Whereas a bald, pot-bellied, man may look in
>> a mirror and say, "not too bad",
>
> Okay, you got me there, although I have never said "not too bad". It
> is more like "OH DUUUUUUUUDE!" :-)
>
>> women who are held to more rigorous
>> level of perfection,
>
> No disagreement arguement there. It always rankles when I
> see studies were they have a skinny girl apply for a job and
> then put the exact same woman in a fat suite and apply for
> the same job.
>
What's a fat suite?

> I worked at an aerospace company about 30 years ago where
> all the raises and promotions went first to the pretty girls,
> second to all the guys, and last to the ugly girls. It
> was really irritating as I and other worked our asses off and
> got no where. If a pretty girl broke her finger nail, everyone
> swooped to her rescue (not me); if an ugly girl lay bleeding
> on the floor, everyone (not me) would step over her. And,
> fat was the kiss of death.

Guess you worked in the wrong industry then.

> >> Are you a girl or a guy? ("Billy" could be either.)
>
> You are killing me here!
>
> -T
>
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