Thanks! Yeah, regional stuff is definitely at play there. I'm from the south as well and I too have had people tell me that I'm "healthy" when I've called myself fat. I told my local community theatre director that I'd love to play Tracy the next time we do Hairspray, and he told me. "You're... healthy, Mary. Keep…

And you are absolutely correct. :D

Yep! It was my first Hawthorn! I'm supposed to actually be making my third one right now, as it's a sponsored projects and I'm behind on my deadline... -_-U

It's funny because I somewhat recently discovered that the reason why one of my exes is still pursuing me is because apparently he thinks I'm one fine piece of ass. We still talk on occasion and somehow we ended up talking about porn. After seeing what his favorite porn star looks like... I now totally understand why…

People like that are both hilarious and sad, especially since what he listed seems to be so driven by personal taste. I've met guys that aren't interested in people my size and I've met guys who think that I'm a fucking goddess. Rarely have I met someone who seems so offended by my body. It's like they can't fathom…

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I'm mildly amused that like half of what they listed is stuff that is genetic and are things that "skinny" women deal with as well. I've certainly heard my thin friends complain about flabby arms and jaw definition.

Aw, thank you! I'm a seamstress and I made the dress myself. It's the Hawthorn dress by Colette Patterns.

Thanks, I made the dress myself.

And there's a difference between people who weigh more than what is appropriate for their frame (hence causing health problems like knee and joint issues) and people who are just naturally going to weigh more. If I weighed 140 pounds, I would have to be living horribly unhealthily and would look sick. I am an active…

And some people are healthier at larger weights and are not able to weigh as little as society deems acceptable. Being punished for being healthy at my size is kind of unfair, especially since people seem to want to use sizism as an excuse for working less and not serving a large portion of the population.

That's not how Plan B works. It works as an extra strong does of birth control that keeps you from ovulating. If you have already released an egg, it won't do jack diddly. It terminates nothing, but simply prevents an egg from being fertilized in the first place. Check out this for more of an explanation: http://www.oh…

I'm 5'4" and I weigh more than that, but I don't consider myself to be fat. People wear their weight differently, especially people who are active (like me) and have muscle mass.

Ah yes, look at how obese I am:

Hmm... Well all I remember from the last sex ed class I had, which was in the 9th grade back in 2004 or 2005, is that they made sure we knew that oral sex still counted as sex and that abstinence was the only 100% way of not getting pregnant.

Hmm perhaps it's a good thing then that the guy I'm seeing apparently does usually like blondes, but my personality reeled him in (things that I have gathered from a conversation we once had).

And that is totally legitimate and you totally have the right to do so. Whenever an atheist guy shows interest in me online, I'm pretty up front with him about that fact for exactly the reasons you state. I respect their atheism, but if they're interested in any actual relationship with me, they have to be able to…

Online dating can make you feel very uncomfortable about yourself. I'm a white woman. I get messaged by black men a lot. I never message them back.

Lol, I'm from/live in North Carolina, so I am very well aware of our particular brand of racism. It was just kind of hilarious juxtaposed with the brand brought down here by the supposedly "progressive" north. Suuure you're not racist, girl from New York. Perhaps I might believe if you didn't go to the Wal-mart on the…

Yeah, and it's not like we want to be there either. In solid relationships, one partner must be willing to suffer with the other, right? I think that's in the wedding vows somewhere... "For richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, at church services that neither of you want to be at but are suffering through for…