Colleen Calls It: Is that a fat joke?
Everyone has a vice: drinking, partying, sex, and for some, it’s food.
Everyone can appreciate a good meal. I refer to overweight people at Towson as people of size. People of size are not just for people who are overweight in a physical sense, it is also the definition for the chubbies at heart, like the skinny people who binge eat on Dunkin’ Donuts and Chipotle and don’t gain a pound.
Those are the chubbies at heart.
I believe that everyone subconsciously talks to people of size differently. For example, I was at Applebee’s once with my friends and we were getting “to-go” bags for our chicken fingers and fries. My friend turns to me and says “ I’ll get a box for mine in case you get hungry later!” jokingly I said, “You didn’t say that about anyone else.”
I truly believe that is because everyone else at the table was skinny, which is a little infuriating. If I didn’t know how attractive I was, that could have led to serious ego damage. I am one of the fortunate ones.
Later, I am in another friend’s apartment and I am moving from the kitchen into the living room. I can hear the fat jokes about being in the kitchen now “Of course she was in kitchen.” There is a couch in between the kitchen entry way and the living room.
My friend John said “Be careful, it’s a tight space. Mind you, three of my other friends squeezed past the same “tight space” and he didn’t warn them. I said “Is that a fat joke?” and he immediately defends himself. “Hey, I call it like I see it.” Even though I am a person of size, I am still beautiful. I started singing “I am beautiful, no matter what they sayyyyyyy,” by Christina Aguilera.
Your fat jokes can’t bring me down.
In a separate incident, I was engaged in some banter with some friends at a football game. I am calling my friend a jerk, and he is telling me I suck at life. Pretty normal, friendly stuff, I think, anyway.
Then he said “You’re being a huge bitch.” What? I was not insulated by the bitch part. It was the huge part that stung. If I were not a POS, would you have said huge bitch? Is that a fat joke?
Rude. Again, if I didn’t know how attractive I was, I might need to seek counseling.
I would say to some extent that my friends are emotionally abusive and that people do talk to people of size and chubbies at heart much differently. While this is a subconscious action, I think we all need to recognize and alter the adjectives that we use when speaking to a POS.
Until next time, Towson Chubbies.
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Your friends don’t sound like very nice people.
Why would you want to be friends with people like that? They don’t sound like they respect you at all. You seem like a nice girl, who shouldn’t have to deal with being called fat by her so-called friends. Think about it.
Oh boy does she have you fooled. Who writes an article bashing fat people then expecting sympathy for herself. Maybe if you werent so mean to people, people would respect you.
Seriously? I am so disappointed in the Towerlight staff for allowing this column to have made it to the month mark in this semester. Colleen’s column lacks decent writing skills, relevent substance, and most of all– opinion. Why is this printed in the “Opinion” section? I’m pretty sure the only opinion I’m getting out of this one is how highly Colleen thinks of herself, which I can assure you is not relevent to anyone at this university with the exception of Colleen. Get a blog to write your crap and stop wasting everyone else’s time. It’s making the Towerlight look awful.
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What the hell is this. The towerlight needs to raise its standards.
“Daddy…does this shirt make me look fat?” — “No honey, your fat makes you look fat!”
Ok, but on a serious note. I agree completely with comments above. Please. Stop. Writing. This. Lousy. Column.
I guess the way to get her to stop writing is to stop commenting on her column. If no one reads it, no more column??? I would hope so.
Sorry Ivan, they don’t actually care how many people read it.
This was cute. I hope #POSProblems starts trending on twitter. I can relate to this article. I’m actually a PLL. Not a Pretty Little Liar (I know that’s what you were all thinking…) .. I’m actually a Person Lacking Lipids. It’s a condition caused by spending your grocery money on alcohol and living in West Village (oh the walk is the biggest first world problem!) Anyway, so many times throughout the day people word vomit all over me. It’s disgusting, metaphorically. This one time one of my friends said “I was going to smack your ass, but then i realized… YOU DONT HAVE ONE.”… Bam, Just like that.. my feelings were hurt.. But before I lost self esteem over it.. I realized something. I’m not only attractive.. but there is such a thing as butt implants. Life makes sense.
HAHA I am a definite chubby at heart. And at the dinner table. And all day long…
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