Comments on: The other f-word: On the use and misuse of “fat” https://idlermag.com/2012/08/06/on-the-use-and-misuse-of-fat/ A U.S. Webzine: 2010-2013 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:43:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jill Kolongowski https://idlermag.com/2012/08/06/on-the-use-and-misuse-of-fat/#comment-4174 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:43:02 +0000 http://idlermag.com/?p=10301#comment-4174 In reply to Anna.

I was wondering that too! Why bother? Does it make us feel better to acknowledge that we’re eating unhealthy things? Is it some sort of self-punishment pattern to make ourselves feel worse? I don’t know, but I do know that I now want Oreos. xo

]]> By: Anna https://idlermag.com/2012/08/06/on-the-use-and-misuse-of-fat/#comment-4173 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:02:42 +0000 http://idlermag.com/?p=10301#comment-4173 Men never feel the need apologize. Why is that? I went to your cottage prepared and happy to eat cookies and Twizzlers to my heart’s content and still. Why is it a relief to say, “I shouldn’t have this, but I’m going to”? Even though I’m adamantly anti-“sinful” and that type of language. Why is saying it out loud, that you shouldn’t be having something, such a security blanket? Like if I don’t project that I know that eating 15 Oreos is bad, other people will somehow care about it, when they don’t. But I still want the cookies. AND STILL EAT THEM. What is happening. And then looking back, the food didn’t matter at all, it was all the other stuff that mattered.

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