for calli

calli sent me a wonderful little note thanking me for writing about being a fat girl. it’s odd that the one piece that i cannot bear to read, is the one thing people love the most. i get more hits from that column than anything i’ve ever written on backwash.

i just wonder what it is about that piece that people like so much.

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6 Comments

  1. Suzy 18.Feb.02 at 1:21 am

    Because it is honest. And well written too – but that is all of yoru stuff, I would say the open honesty is what attracts people.

  2. Calli 18.Feb.02 at 1:33 am

    Yes, the honesty. That’s exactly it. I think because big people are so easy and acceptable to make fun of that a lot of us are really good at hiding how we feel. Being so open about it is scary. It’s something that I need to write about myself, but I’m not really there yet.

  3. Jim 18.Feb.02 at 6:30 pm

    NOONE IS FAT! FAT IS WHAT YOU THINK OF YOURSELF I YOU DO NOT LIKE YOURSELF.

  4. jodi 18.Feb.02 at 9:25 pm

    jim, no woman is an island. and it doesn’t matter how much i like myself when society consistently tells me i am not as good as thin people.

  5. Calli 19.Feb.02 at 12:46 am

    Saying no one is fat is like saying no one is blind. I can love myself from here to Thursday and I’ll still be fat.

  6. Jim 20.Feb.02 at 9:38 pm

    Large and lovely;which is what Jodi and perhaps Calli are is NOT FAT!