Our scrappy male cat has really done it this time, gone and gotten himself buggered up real good. I am not sure if he was fighting with a coon or getting away from a coyote, either way it's not pretty. We saw him all bloodied up on Wed but before we could catch him (after making a phone call to find out where we might be able to take him) he had taken off. I watched for him for 2 days but really wasn't too worried, he is been taken to the cleaners a time or two before and they were never really bad bang ups. So when I saw him Saturday he was looking beyond pitiful, worse than I have ever seen him. I got him in the house and was almost knocked over by the smell. I got him wrapped up in some towels, put him in a box and off to the er vet we went. With it being right at the end of the pay period we are pretty much broke so had decided we would sign him over to animal services and pray for the best. Well come to find out they couldn't take him b/c we were out of county (yet another downside to living in small town BFE county nowhere), so they cleaned out his wound, wrapped his tail & gave him a shot for the pain. No examination was done aside from the quick rap up job. They did that for us for free and said they couldn't do anything else without an initial $90 exam that had to be paid upfront, something I just didn't have on me at the moment. So we packed him up and brought him home.
I gave him a bath last night and set him up in my bathroom with clean dry towels, water, & food. I check on him to give him cuddles, change his bedding and try to get him to eat and drink. No food and just barely any water has me worried he may be in shock and getting dehydrated :( I'm pretty sure he is urinating on himself but I can't see a reason for it beyond a banged up tail. It doesn't look as if his hind side has been damaged but it may just be I am missing something, I am after all no animal expert and he is a very hairy cat. I just hope that some TLC, some stitches if necessary and a round of antibiotics will be all he needs but we'll find out for sure at the vet tomorrow. It's going to be a long day I can just feel it.
How does skinny bitches fit in to this blog? It doesn't really but a gal I know who writes a fabulous blog brought up today something I deal with a lot. The hypocrisy & out right rudeness in regards to thin/skinny women. Why it seems socially acceptable to ridicule a thin woman to her face for being thin but heaven help you if you comment to someone overweight. Why is it ok to tell a skinny chick to eat a cheeseburger but not ok to tell a fat girl to put the cheeseburger down? Double standards they do exist.
I can't even tell you how often I have been told to eat something. Have you people ever seen me eat? My dad used to swear I suffered from hollow leg syndrome because I could pack away so much food. I still can, just ask the cashier at McDonald's ;) Oh but my favorite is when someone asks why I need to work out, I'm so thin as it is. So I have to be fat to want to be in shape? Ummmm, huh? Look clothes on a person can be very deceiving to how they actually look. I know what to wear to cover up the "flaws" and I am also aware that this year those saddlebags & the mom pooch have started to catch up with me. Muffin top, I haz it. I can admit it! I am proud of what my body has done to grow and nurture 4 hellion crotch fruits, I love my body. Is it wrong for me to want it to be the best body it can be? Don't criticize me for being thin, how ridiculous. Don't tell me to eat something when you have no idea the amount of food I consume and don't act offended when I say I do eat well and I am somewhat active but that my genes play a huge part in the fact I am thin.
Now listen up. Real women have more than just curves, real women have no breasts, saggy breasts, pointy breasts, full breasts. Real women have bony hips, voluptuous hips, hips made for birthing and hips so tiny you could crack em with a toothpick. Real women are tall, short, pudgy, skinny, angry, loving, but mostly real women are beautiful no matter their size, their shape, their bra cup, their waist measurement or how many rolls they have on their thighs or in some of our cases the lack there of. Saying real women have curves is a slap in the face to all of the real women without curves. Talk about setting up negative body image no matter what your size. All women are real women, period. And you know what? This skinny bitch is jealous of women who can wear real sizes. When womens/misses sizes are 2 sizes too large do you know what a 30 some year old mother to 5 gets to pick from to wear? Yea the juniors section. How embarrassing that my only clothing options are buying from the teeny bopper section. I am too old for those clothes but apparently "women" don't wear sizes below a 6-8 and those that do deserve to wear totally age inappropriate teen chick clothes. Yay. Can't we please have the Lane Bryant designer create a skinny bitches line so we can wear adult clothes too? Is it really too much to ask that we have appropriate clothes and don't get snarked at? You know what, love your body and yourself. And if you don't love your body than how about do something about it rather than be mean & hateful to those of us on this side of the coin. We may be thin but we have feelings too.
Pity you eat at Maccas
ReplyDeleteI guess I don't understand the point of this argument. Why spend the first half of the blog talking about skinny vs. fat discrimination, then later state it's all ridiculous? Why not just make a point to talk about how *all* body discrimination is bogus? Instead of a Lane Bryant for skinny people, why not clothing designers that include all shapes ... See Moreand sizes for once? It'd be great to be able to go shopping with a bunch of friends in one store because there were sizes to suit everyone. I feel like blogs like this only exacerbate the problem and continue the "battle", when in reality we should be banding together to end it.
ReplyDeleteAnon--not anymore we are off the fast food, especially after watching the documentary Food Inc.
ReplyDeleteSarah-- I appreciate your comment! I'll repost what I said on WU's link. For the most part this isn't a thought out planned blog. I just blog whatever happens to be on my mind as soon as it comes to me (and as you can see it's pretty well out of order, my thoughts). Usually no one but a friend & my sister read my crazy ramblings. You have however given me an idea to compose a much more well thought out, organized and planned blog on the subject. I do agree all body discrimination is bogus, it just seems to be a double standard that you can ridicule a skinny chic but you'd never say those same things to someone who was overweight. I'd love a store all of my friends could shop in together and get decent, fashionable clothes in a range of sizes! Now if only we could make that happen.
ugh i am 5' EVEN, nonexistent frame, with pretty much zero curvage. im a 32AA cup, size 0 pants. even after having one child, im a wee 97 pounds, mind you, zero muscle (im usually a good 114 but i really wasted away during pregnancy), i really need to hit the gym i actually WANT to bulk up again...
ReplyDeleteask any of my friends, you take me to a buffet and i'll send the cooks runnin' :) i <3 food, food is my friend. my lovely yummy tasty friend.
i hate how im restricted to juniors clothing. its increadibly humiliating when shirts have the built in bust because i can never fit into any of them :/ im pretty much restriced to cami's and jeans. work pants? IMPOSSIBLE to find in my size. i cant afford to take EVERTYHING to the tailors! yeah they make 'petite' clothes, but im sorry, im not a grandma! petite should not translate to little old shrunken lady in terms of style.
if someone could just make a tiny-girl clothing line for once. we arent anorexics! we're tiny! its just the way we are. can we stop discriminating?
Wow, I am happy to have come across this article, as it gives me some insight to what being the same size as my 11 year old daughter would be like... kinda sucky, in other words. I'd give anything to be a size 12 or even a 10 again, and I certainly come across a lot of women who are in the same boat as me; lamenting on the fact that we are chubby and have arms that continue to wave after I have actually stopped moving my hand, but to think about being my age (31) and being a size 0 is an eye opener. It isn't that it's cracked up to be after all! Thank you for sharing :)
ReplyDelete..isn't ALL it's cracked up to be... ;)
ReplyDeleteI can't tell you how aggravated I get when I hear people talk about "real women" as opposed to thin women! As though models and other skinny girls are robots rather than living beings. Having been chubby, and now being pretty tiny, I have gained a new perspective. I'm happy to be the size I am, but what I don't like is being accused of anorexia either openly or by comparison. I'll eat anything that's vegan! Not all anorexics are skinny, and not all skinny people are anorexic. We eat, and we're real.
ReplyDeleteThis is so true... no matter what it is, it you fall outside the 'normal' (read unobtainable) body standard, you'll be criticized/ridiculed/scrutinized.
ReplyDeleteI always said clothes aren't made for real people anyway.
Thanks for assing me to your blogroll :)
"Hellion Crotch Fruit" and in that one little phrase, I know you are LSG... ;) - Squigs.x.
ReplyDeleteHey, Jennie....
ReplyDeletePut down the cheeseburger you skinny bitch! LMBO!!! JK
Seriously though, very good thoughts. You're beautiful, both now and always. Good goin' with your workout and I hope the kitty gets comfortable soon. xoxo
I think it's really awesome to read about the other spectrum. People really don't understand that you can be skinny and want to tone up. In my house right now, I'm working on losing weight, and my hubby is trying to gain some. There was nothing wrong with how skinny he was, but he wanted to gain a little weight (and he looks even better for it!) I think it was a great blog. :)
ReplyDeletePS: I hope kitty gets better!!
i've been on both sides. When I was skinny, I got snarked at cause I was slimmer than my friends. When I got to where I am now (eyeroll) I've actually been told to my face how fat i've gotten, how I"ve let myself go. I've suffered both sides of the coin. Gimme skinny bitch remarks anyday over fat ass ones! It irritated me when I got ridiculed for being skinny, but it hurts so bad to get ridiculed for being fat.
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ReplyDeleteI am an LSG stalker, I'm too chicken shitty to post there ;-) But i do love the improvement to my vocabulary!
ReplyDeleteLOL Jenn <3 ya girl! I am heading to the vet now, fingers & toe crossed for Sirius.
Sonia I just want to send you virtual hugs :(
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ReplyDeleteI have to agree with Sonia on this one. I have been in both places, and it's annoying to be told you are too thin, but being told you are fat is downright depressing. I am still trying to lose the "baby weight" from my first "hellion crotch fruit" (LOL on that one BTW). So far, I've lost 40 lbs, but I still get backhanded compliments about my weight loss all the time, like: "Oh my God! You've lost so much weight! You look SO fat in this picture! I didn't realize how heavy you were." Uhhh... ouch! I wonder why people feel the need to made nasty comments about heavy or skinny bitches...