On Dances with Fat, Ragen and concern trolls…

Haters are going to hate. There isn’t a damn thing she can do about it. She claims her blog is a ‘safe place’ and moderates all comments. No ‘hateful’ comments will get through.

But then she constantly blogs about the ‘hateful’ comments. The ones that only she can see. She is literally giving these ‘haters’ a voice on her blog just so she can play the part of the oppressed victim.  Only to win in the end.  GO RAGEN!!!

Today she said: “I get to decide how people treat me.”  (Full link to the blog here).

How is she deciding how people are treating her?  By blogging the hateful things they they say?  She isn’t standing up for herself.   She is just giving them a voice.  Please tell me she isn’t the stupid.

I was wrong – she really is that stupid.  Ignoring it would be the better way to go.   But Ragen can’t do that.  Her entire identity is wrapped around being a shamed, oppressed, bullied victim.

If Ragen were truly the happy, self confident, healthy, elite athlete and trained researcher that she claims to be?  She would just ignore it.

Training for a Marathon – the Dances with Fat way…

On  May 10th, Ragen announced on her danceswithfat blog, that she was training for the 2015 LA Marathon.  Good for her, right?

On May 26, she states, “A number of people have asked about my training plan for this marathon.  I have been working with experienced trainers…to get me to the finish line in time.”

On June 8th, Ragen casually mentions that she was on her ‘weekly long run‘ as part of a bigger post about fat shaming.  Casually mentions doing 6 miles.

On September 20, she blogs that she is doing the an Ironman.

On October 2nd, Ragen states (regarding her new Ironman coach):  “I’ve been using a generic training program and so having something that is created for me, and is evolved based on my progress by someone who has done his share of IMs and trained other people to do them, gives me a lot more peace of mind.”

On October 7th, she states:   “I (sic) became apparent during the first interval that I was not going to be able to hold the pace over the time, I … decide to cut the time by a third and that helped a lot, I still didn’t hold the pace…  the last half mile wasn’t so much an interval run as it was me being unwilling to quit until I hit five miles.”

So my question is, which is it?  Was she working with experienced trainers or was she using a generic training program?   And why are 5 mile interval runs kicking her ass four months after she talks about doing 6 mile interval runs?

And, seriously, who the fuck is paying for all of this?  How the hell can she afford swim lessons, Ironman coaches and entry fees.  Not to mention travel fees.

BRB – changing the name of the blog to waltzingwithfat.  Going to shill myself as a national fat waltzing champion.  And activist for oppressed waltzers.  You can donate to the fight against oppression of waltzers here.  Thank you for your support.

Ragen is concerned that ‘people will drown her’ at IMAZ. Let’s debunk this, shall we?

In Ragen’s latest Ironman training update, she claims:

“People have lots of fears about the race, but as far as I’ve seen,
I’m the only one who has to worry if the two people who threatened
to show up at my IM and drown me during the swim
will actually try to follow through.”

Scroll down to the “Race Day” heading. That is where she claims that people are going to kill her.  It’s there.  See for yourself.

So let’s talk about facts.  And if someone were to try to drown Ragen, how would they do it?   How would they get away with it?  Even more insidious, how are they getting to the swim?  Is the IMAZ in on it?  They must be.

This is the reality…

1.  IMAZ 2014 sold out, online,  in less than a minute.

2.  If you volunteer at an Ironman event, you can sign up for the next Ironman the day after the race.

3.  IMAZ 2015 sold out the day after the event.  There was no open registration online.  The volunteers took the spots.

So, in order for Ragen to ‘worry about someone drowning her during the swim’ that would mean that two random internet people would spend the time and money to:

A)  Fly to Arizona in 2015 at their own expense

B) Pay for a hotel and accommodations for the weekend

C) Volunteer for IMAZ.

D) Spend an additional $750 to sign up for a spot in 2016

E) Fly back to Arizona in 2016 under the pretense that they are doing the Ironman

F) Pay for a hotel

F)  Set up all of the bags/equipment they purchase to continue this sham.

G)  Get close enough to Ragen in the water to drown her.

All for the .01% that Ragen makes it to the swim?  Because historically speaking, Ragen does not finish what she starts.  Although she does have a strong history of crowdfunding her ‘projects’.  Still waiting for the paper mache project that she crowdfunded here in 2013 to come to fruition.  Not holding my breath for the “History of Fat Activism” project that she raised over $2500 to ever get completed.

There is the theory that IMAZ is in on this.  And they will just let her internet drowners into the swim because they hate all fat people.  I just made that up.  But that is much more likely than two random internet people getting a spot for IMAZ ’16.

Back to Ragen.  Call me cheap – but wouldn’t it be more time and cost effective to just fly to LA for a day or two? And do the deed there?

Suffice it to say that I am not advocating drowning Ragen.  Don’t get any ideas.  I am simply pointing out how fucking stupid her claims are.  If Ragen even had a clue about how hard it is to get a spot at an Ironman, she wouldn’t be spewing this shit.  Most likely, she is banking on the fact that her followers do not have a clue.  And this is just another sensationalist bullshit cry for sympathy.  Soon to be followed up with her next crowdfund.

I love Simon!

Whoever is behind that account is my new hero.  I remember the first blog post from Simon.  Praising Ragen.  I thought the dude was fucking nuts.  But all it took was one post from his new wordpress blog reblogging Ragen and she approves every one of his comments.  I love you Simon.  You just keep proving, day in and day out, how inept Ragen truly is.

Why take my word for it?  Just look at this screenshot from imgur, which he posted to Reddit.  Notice the WordPress username in the corner?  Notice how the user deleted their account on Reddit after the first comment called them out?   Now go here to see Simon’s first post.   Notice the name?  Loveandangryandfats?

And I am not even a trained researcher!!!!

Your move Ragen…

 

I am genetically predisposed to be obese…

That is what they say.  Common sense dictates that if you are genetically programmed to be morbidly obese, it would have started in the womb.  So I did a little digging.

Oddly enough, it wasn’t that easy to find the height/weight stats for the biggest kids at birth.  And by not easy, I mean, I spent less than five minutes on this.  Maybe if I were a trained researcher, I would have gotten better results.  But I just googled “biggest kids at birth” and based my research on that.   (Note to self:  start a frugal blog next.  Tell people about google.  Avoid seven years of college and student loans to become a trained researcher.  Advertise ‘one simple trick that every college doesn’t want you to know.’)

Sorry – back on topic….

I started with the Guinness Book.  The heaviest kid on record to be born was born to a giantess in 1879 at 23 lb 12 oz.  Next, a kid born to a healthy mother at 22 lb 8 oz.  In 1955.  And lastly, another baby born to a giantess in 1846 weighing 18 lb. Two of the three had genetic issues that would be passed on to their children and those large births are not a surprise.  The third is an anomaly.

BUT – if Ragen and her friends are genetically programmed to be fat, wouldn’t they have broken that 60+ year old record years ago?   Or at the very least, get an honorable mention?  Or something?

There are plenty of articles about kids being born at higher birth weights these days. Some of it is due to declines in smoking, alcohol consumption and caffeine use during pregnancy.   On the flip side, big women have big babies and obesity is on the rise.

Not once, as a self-proclaimed, semi-trained, google researcher did I see anything about fat parent passing along bad genetics.  But they sure as shit passed along their bad habits.

Listening to ‘my body’…

Ragen, and other FA’s have this weird disassociation between their bodies and themselves.  I once saw a comment on a blog that said something to the effect that once the person learned to disassociate her body size with her self esteem, she was finally happy.  So, let’s get this straight.  This is a person that is unhappy with her body.  Rather than choose to work on that, she would rather look at her body as a separate entity, with a mind of it’s own.  And she can only be happy when she absolves herself of responsibility for her decisions?  Because she didn’t make them – her body did?

That means, from a legal standpoint, I am not responsible for something that ‘my body’ does.  Right?  So when ‘my body’ punches my ex in the fucking face for the years of physical/psychological abuse he put me through, I can’t be charged with assault.  I didn’t do it.  My body did.

Let’s take this a step further.  Let’s say that one day, ‘my body’ decided to rape a 7 year old.  I am not responsible.  My body did it.  I was just listening to my body.  And that absolves me of any responsibility.

Wrap your head around that logic.

This is, quite possibly, some of the stupidest shit that has come out of the FA blogosphere.  Your ‘body’ does not make decisions – you do.  And if they were as ‘proud’ of their curves as they say?  They would own their behavior, not blame it on ‘their body’ and absolve themselves of all responsibility.

I should have a good, strong sentence to wrap this up.  But I am having a hard time reconciling this stupidity in my head.

Smoking vs. Fat, part 2

Day five.  And I have to say, not smoking sucks.  I am using an e-cig to quit.  I watched a documentary today that really showed the parallels between smoking and eating.  Back in the 60’s (or 70’s) tobacco companies started upping the amount of nicotine in cigarettes.  When you smoke, you get addicted to the nicotine.  So they made sure to pump them up to get you addicted.

It is the same thing with food and sugar.  All of the food companies do the same thing.  They pump their foods up with additives, sugar and chemicals.  With the goal of getting you addicted.  Ragen constantly talks about the ‘diet industry.’  I have yet to hear her say one word about the conglomerates that put 90% of the food in our grocery stores.  Call me crazy, but I am willing to guess that those companies have a wider reach than the diet industry.  Everyone has to go to the grocery store.

And now that the fat activism movement is so successful, people are embracing their fat, the diet industry is failing and hot guys all over the world are looking for curves.  /s

So back to the smoking thing.  My plan is to use the e-cig to get the nicotine fix and get past the other cravings.  In a month or so, I will start cutting down on the nicotine levels in the e-cig.  Sounds good in theory, no?  I thought so too.  But the cravings for a ‘real’ cigarette suck.  Even as I am getting a nicotine fix.  So yesterday, I finally caved.  I lit a cigarette, inhaled twice and threw it out because it tasted like ass.  So I am kind of stuck in this bizarre limbo where I want to smoke. It tastes like ass.  I know it tastes like ass.  But I still crave it. My lungs are working overtime to get rid of the shit that I put into them for the last 20 years.  I can literally see my body rejecting the shit I have put into it while I smoked.  Call me crazy/weird, but after I have a coughing fit, I have to spit into a cup.  Nothing gives me more resolve than seeing what is coming out of my lungs.  But even that doesn’t stop the cravings.  Sucks to be me right now, no?

Moral of the story???

First, I smoked one cigarette.  Threw it out and got right back on my quest to stop smoking.  I didn’t start smoking two packs a day because I deprived myself of smoking for a week.

Second, there absolutely is a parallel between the tobacco industry and the companies that make processed foods.  They are a business.  And their business succeeds when you fail.

Third, I am denying ‘my body’ cigarettes and instead, sucking on an e-cig that barely keeps the cravings at bay.  Just like an overweight person should gnaw on a fucking carrot when they crave cake.  It sucks.  But it is the same fucking thing.

Fourth, addiction is addiction is addiction.  No matter what you are addicted to.  Find me one FA that denies ‘their body’ and the foods it craves?  And instead, uses carrot sticks to mindlessly munch on until the craving passes?  Thank you.

For someone that is trying to quit smoking, an e-cig is the equivalent of using a carrot to stop a craving for cake.  Just like having a non-alcoholic beer sucks for an alcoholic.  It all sucks.  But sooner or later, you need to take responsibility for your actions.  And responsibility for yourself.  These FA’s need to grow the fuck up already.