drventure

I found myself ranting on the Plus-Sized Women group, having been upset at some of the comments the ladies made about how they feel about themselves, or about unkind words from others. I got on really on a passionate tear as I wrote, which is somewhat rare, so I decided to post it here too.

I do not enjoy looking at all the women who post sets here because they are PSWs, I do it because they, because YOU, are beautiful. I do not see myself as having any sort of fetish. You are normal. You are real.

The "ideal beauties" that you are compared against (including by youselves, sometimes), are not normal and not real. They are living special effects, created through intense, obsessive (and unhealthy) effort. Using them as a standard of comparison is about as valid as someone wondering why they can't swing from buildings as well as Spider-Man can.

Some of you are deeply hurt by random shouted comments from people... That makes me furious. But I've learned something. Those people DO NOT MATTER. I have had insults screamed at me from passing cars and passing people for doing such socially unacceptable things as A) riding a bike B) walking down the sidewalk C) waiting for a bus, and I'm pretty nondescript. Unfortunately, society is plagued with a vocal minority of mouth-breathing cretins who either have drank/snorted away any impulse control at all or are so pathetic that they can only feel big be belitting someone else. It is not you they want to hurt, and not because of your size. It is anyone, for any reason at all.