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Every once in awhile the very talented With Love, Fat Girl quotes her Starbucks cups. I am so unaware of the world around me that I didn't even realize Starbucks had writing on their cups until I started reading her. And even then I still didn't read my cup. Today I was on my way to Taylor's first soccer game (a 5-0 loss) and I just happened to glance down at my large cup of Awake tea with lots of cream, which really seemed to disturb the Starbucks chicky.
And this is what it said:
The Way I See It #175
The world would be a boring place if everyone wore a size 2. I love being a size 22, just like I love a giant cup of hot chocolate with extra whipped cream. F.A.T (Fabulous and Thick) folks know that it's the extras in life- like pounds, cash and love- that give us character. Embrace the extras, baby.
It wasn't until I removed the sleeve once I was home that I saw who the author was, the comedienne Mo'Nique. And then there is this disclaimer "This is the author's opinion, not necessarily that of Starbucks."
Which means what? That Starbucks is not willing to admit that drinking hot chocolate with extra whipping cream is quite likely to help you pack on the pounds? That being fat does not add character?
I'm not a size 22- yet, but keep gaining 8 lbs a month and I might be- and I'm certainly never going to be a size 2, and nor would I want to be. I do wish I had the ability to embrace my reality- I am never going to be a skinny girl. Instead every time I look at myself in the mirror I say "Who the fagoozy are you? When did you get so FAT?" Because in my head, I'm still okay. Not fat, not thin. Just right. It's just that when I see myself that I get a bit of a shock. It's when my Granny says to me "You're such a pretty girl, but you really need to lose some weight", or when two men call me a fat pig for defending some man and that man does not defend me back, or when some guy who is not thin himself calls me a fat bitch for telling his son that he better leave my child alone or else (okay maybe I deserved that one) that I realize that not only am I fat, but that other people see it too.
And while I liked this quote I don't completely agree with it. I don't believe being fat adds character. I think it takes away from who you are, all the while defining who you are, if that makes any sense at all. I think that in general most fat people are very self depreciating- you have to make fun of yourself before someone does it for you. So while I want to embrace my reality I don't want to embrace that fat a reality.
I wouldn't mind embracing some extra cash though.
Tradesies anyone? My fat for your moola?
01 May, 2007
The Way Starbucks* Sees It
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I always wonder why if we are overweight or whatever we feel like we have to be self depeciating? I'm not okay with my weight but I do know I won't be a size 2 or want to be like you said. I agree also I want to embrace my own reality that I will not be as little as I once was (though never a size 2)I'm not ready to embrace being overweight. Can you tell I hate the word Fat? Maybe I'm just weight challenged?
GREAT post. I let my fat get out of control. Part of it is because I made bad food choices, part of it is genetics. I am not a lazy person by any means. I am one of those people who just has to be careful with what I eat. Because it goes straight to my ass, and my gut...and... ugh.
And trying to lose that weight is damned near impossible due to a severe hormonal imbalance.
I will never be a size 2 and I am totally ok with that. I am not ok with being as big as I am though, and so continues the battle...
Dearest Emma,
Just found you in blog land! Via Lisa, foodie girl, vis Sally Lomax! I too have 4 kids, a husband who, because he is in the Navy is away all week long resulting in me becoming a mad, crazed mother! I don't find it very funny much either but somehow or other I make my life into a column for a newspaper here in England. The column gets posted as my blog a few days later. Loved your blog and randomly I was present at the birth of my friend's home water birth - she called her baby Saoirse! Keep going xx
didn't realise about the writings on Starbuck cups either. That's interesting...give me my hot chocolate with whipped cream anytime!
What a fantastic post!!!
I kinda sorta realized Starbucks had quotes, but not really. And I've never read them. I never actually take my sleeve off, unless it's to see which coffee is mine. But I get that's not really the point of your post...
I don't have any spare cash. Hell, I don't have enough for myself. Even still, that's a pretty sucky trade.
I don't go to Starbucks enough to read the cups, but they do have a problem with tea. Why do you sell it if you don't know how to make IT?!
It's a freaking bag with hot water, and then sugar and/or cream. Rocket science.
As for the weight, well, keep trying! I'm certainly no expert, but as my age and love of food have increased, so has my activity. I know I'd never be a size 2, nor would I want to look like a sickly skeleton.
Of course, I only have two kids, so who the hell am I?
Have you seen Mo'Nique on "Charm School" on VH1? She kinda gets on my nerves because she's always talking about how she's so classy and fabulous and how you should accept the way you look, but she judges the girls on the show about how they look.
Great post, and I never knew they had quotes on their cups. I do think we should be happy for the way we look as for me I need to get into an exercise routine again-I'm getting to be to lazy.
Ah, weight issues... The bane of every woman, even the skinny ones, I hear.
I don't fine Mo'Nique to be the wisest of women but you? Wise and a half!
The concept of her quote is somewhat interesting. Though I think things such as humor and an off kilter nose and one boob a cup size bigger than the other give us more character than being a size 22. OR a size 2.
Mmmm. Hot chocolate sounds divine now. Thanks for nothing. ;)
Additionally...I find Starbucks disclaimer on that particular one amusing. Hell they should omit their disclaimer since it could get them more moolah you know. ;)
I don't go to starbucks unless hell has frozen over (or Josh is craving a frap) so I'm unaware of this new trend of sharing brilliance from folks like Mo'Nique. Thank cod for the blogging world. Keeping me in the know. :)
Great post, Emma!!! I agree with you. All women and, I would venture to guess, most men, do not like the way their bodies look!
I agree with what, I think, the quote is supposed to be saying. That we should stop comparing ourselves to others and embrace our bodies.
Also, I don't think extra cash adds to character either.
Fagoosy? That cracks me up. I've never heard that word before! Nor did I realize Starbucks has quotes on their cups. Very educational post!
I think age adds character. Not weight. And I can say that because I'm older now :o) Funny how the older I get the more I realize it's not about weight at all.
that was really profound, Ms. Emma.
I enojoyed reading it. very much
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