In purusing the internet, which I do from time to time, I came across this website: http://www.amifatornot.com/index.php

So… being morbidly curious about all things weird on the internet, I clicked.  Now everyone and their ginger cat has heard of ‘Hot or Not’… but ‘Am I Fat?’  Are we really all so insecure that we need strangers to tell us whether or not we’re fat?

So… guess what.  Most of the people on that site (I got bored after 6 clicks so bear with me if I’m making sweeping statements here) are just NORMAL looking people.

It’s a sad testament to the insecurity of 95% of the population.  What’s even sadder is a couple of those people I saw on that site were downright SKINNY.

But then there’s the other side.. the part of US that judges other people based on how fat or skinny they are, whether or not they have nice hair, or their clothes are just right, etc etc etc.  We spend endless amounts of time primping ourselves up, but make sure to point out everyone else’s flaws, just in case someone didn’t notice that we are oh so much more stylish, sophisticated and svelt.

You know when we’re born, and should we be lucky enough to live a long time, when we die, we all sorta look like some variation of an elder winston churchill.  Whoever tells you babies are cute has some hormonal thing going on.  They’re tubby and squashed and flubby… and they scream.  But we like them for what they represent, so we call it cute.  Anyway, birth, death, we all look like varying shades of raisins and for somewhere between 20 minutes to 20 years in the middle we’re really quite appealing. 

Considering what a fractional moment it is in the lifetime of a human being, you’d think we’d have better questions to ask than: ‘Am I Fat Or Not’  How about: ‘Am I Judgemental.com’ or ‘Have I wasted my life and emotions on a corporation that can’t love me back.net’ or ‘Do I have to call other people fat/dumb/losers just to feel okay about myself.org’.

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