Saturday, February 05, 2011

Girl Talk



Ginger Rogers famously said that she had to do everything that Fred Astaire did except backward in high heels. This sentiment works better for me than Helen Reddy's anthem to femaleness, "I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar" as when I was in high school, all the boys changed the following lyric to "With an ass too big to ignore." Which brings me to weight, a topic I find galling in so many ways. Gaining it is akin to what missing church was in the old days (ie, my teenage years) where if you didn't attend for a few Sundays, people asked in that particular judging way, Where have you been? Losing it brings all sorts of laurels, albeit poisonous ones. When going through a bit of a relatively (and it's all relative)low period, I get the old "You look so much better" as if I had faced the ultimate moral showdown and won. When the scales are up, my stock is down, as if I had let Jesus stay up all night alone before His crucifixion. It's truly odd.

And it explains the popularity of shows like "The Biggest Loser" and "Heavy." Fight fat, win the war against Satan! To hear the trainers talk, obesity is the cause of all problems and not going to the gym is akin to letting Baby Jesus die on your cell phone if you don't forward Him after getting a text message version of what we used to call chain mail. I kind of miss the letters which had more examples of all the evils that would befall you if you didn't respond -- brain tumors, death, loss of money, etc. So here's my chain mail/text message -- Fuck all that! Don't worry about it. Let those sadistic trainers make other people cry. And women, whatever happens, be proud of that ass too big to ignore.

Michelle's Spell of the Day
"No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself." Rabbi Sofer

Cocktail Hour
Memoir suggestion: Talking To Girls About Duran Duran Rob Sheffield

Benedictions and Maledictions
Happy Saturday!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Alright Michelle, what the hell is this? Checking the pics, and reading the blog, I don't know which form of entertainment I should be providing myself with here.

I like the juxtaposition though.

(Just giving you shit)

Steve Goossen

DudeTheObscure said...

alright--I made my own profile now. I got inspired! LOL

Steve G

Charles Gramlich said...

My school even has a biggest loser thing on campus.

the walking man said...

Are we talking big asses here or big booty's? Seems to me like you pretty much covered both kiddo. I can honestly say that i weigh within a pound of the same weight I was when I was 14. God knows as I age being a fat child has its benefits. My booty has gotten no bigger but my ass factor I leave that to others to decide. Because primarily I don't give a shit.

JR's Thumbprints said...

Hell ... I know plenty of dudes who've fought fat but they certainly aren't winning the war against Satan. Of course, their motives regarding "With an ass too big to ignore" may be slightly different as they run the prison track or pump iron in the prison weight pit.

jodi said...

Michelle, O Lord-ya had to go there. I think I will just move to Samoa where I can be a goddess and they can worship my acre of ass. So much easier....xo