OT Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: overweight

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 3613

storm stanford wrote:

> A villain per se must be taken seriously, and part of the whole overweight thing is they're not quite real people who can be truly respected or truly feared.
>
>   --Amanda, whose daughter is a superb example of that last bit
>
>   Amanda - I hope your daughter doesn't need to be feared!

No. *I'm* overweight, and my five-year-old often seems to neither respect or fear *me,* thus proving my point.....  : )  She's at that "attitude with feet" stage.

> Later I was thinking, what if they'd been chinese, or lebanese - as they might have easily been given the area I live in - would I have found some other things to pick on them? I think it unlikely I would have picked racial grounds to dislike them.

Unless they ate the dog....a perfectly justifiable racial reason to dislike someone...

>   storm (attempting to root out her predujices, even when they relate to blond, master-race, fundermentalist christans who mistreat thier dogs ...)

So you have no problem with blond, master-race, fundamentalist Christian dog lovers?

Sorry, I'm a bit loopy today.

--Amanda