Fat Acceptors! Stop Asking Robots For Acceptance

A sad fact of human nature that I came to understand in elementary school is that there are two kinds of people: thinkers and non thinkers. Thinkers may run the range as far as levels of social dependence.  Some may understand a situation, but lack the courage to actively shape it.  They will conform to…

Moral Panic: Obesity (The Short Version)

Obesity moral panic, step by step 1.  Promote an androgynous ideal for women. (first wave 1920’s, second wave during WWII, third wave started in the late 1960’s) Social enforcement factor: You must look more like a man to compete with men.  Promote androgynous models as more beautiful than the busty, thick thighed pin-up girls of the…

Moral Panic: Obesity

Most of us in the western world and other industrialized countries could stand to lose a few pounds for aesthetic reasons.  Those of us who’ve gone natural, a small but significant minority, have found that with our improved health comes a natural balancing of weight.  When one looks around though, it’s pretty easy to see…

A Sudden Shift

As I’ve mentioned before, since I woke up, I’ve been attracting a different type of guys.  It seems that one of them, who we’ll call Prince, is serious.  I just finished having a nice conversation with his daughter.  It would be weird if this wasn’t confirmation of a gutt feeling. I didn’t blog about him before…

The Business

Lately, I’ve been putting more effort into my offline businesses.  The braiding thing is still slow, and I think it’s because somewhere, someone is selling relaxer cream here.  I don’t know where, but it doesn’t really matter.  Ethiopians and everyone else seem to be going straight.  So I may have to fade into the background,…