(IJCH) "Insatiable" - a New Netflix Series (or How I Remember My Fat Childhood and It Hurts)
IJCH - Inside JaiChai's Head (Meaning: My Warped, Personal Opinions and Musings)
From the Author:
Salutations.
I am JaiChai.
And if I haven't had the pleasure of meeting you before, I'm delighted to make your acquaintance now.
I invite you to interact with everyone, learn, and have as much fun as possible!
For my returning online friends, "It's always great to see you again!"
Netflix has released the trailer for Insatiable, a new show that will air this month on Friday, August 10, 2018.
It's about a fat girl in high school who endures a lot of cruelty, humiliation and bullying.
Then she wires her jaws shut and becomes thin, I mean sexy, hot thin.
Making good use of her newfound charms, she exacts revenge on all who inflicted so much pain on her in the past.
But...
over two thirds of people in the US are now plus size — and for those 218 million, major weight loss isn’t necessarily a part of their story.
They are, however, staying fat and getting laid, staying fat and being funny, staying fat and building vibrant communities, staying fat and living their lives with confidence, staying fat and riding out highs and lows, just like thin people.
That wasn't me as a kid.
I was fat and unhappy.
I Remember My Fat Childhood and It Hurts
A less than Joyful Childhood can really mess with your mind.
I remember always being out of place in school - too young, too smart, too Asian, and so very lonely.
Racism was alive and well in New England during the 1960’s.
And the discrimination in the Southern Florida area of the early 1970’s was worse. I was either ridiculed for my slanted eyes, or brown skin; or simply ignored, "invisible grey" in a "black and white" world.
To make matters worse, I was fat.
Not just chubby or baby-fat cute, I was fat.
I blamed my parents.
In Asia, a fat child was a status symbol, a testimony to the assumed wealth of his parents, and looked upon favorably by all.
But in the United States, fat children are stereotyped as being lazy, cowardly, comical, and stupid.
My parents just didn’t get it.
They acted like they didn’t care that I was ridiculed daily. And I can’t count how many times I cried over being – as my mother would say – "husky".
In fact, I can still remember dreading each new season of shopping for school clothes. I had to buy "husky" sizes.
I was so ashamed that I would keep looking around the store to see if any of my friends were around before I went to the dressing rooms.
It wasn’t until I was nine or ten years old that I rebelled. I refused to eat whatever my parents made for dinner, choosing to prepare my own meals.
Of course, this led to a life-long battle over food choices with my parents. I’m sure I hurt their feelings many times.
But I just couldn’t stand being the brunt of all the fat jokes at school and other unavoidable social situations.
The above is excerpted from:
(IJCH) How Dare She! (Out Of Desperation, I Learned How To Forgive...)
Article Link:
https://steemit.com/blog/@jaichai/ijch-how-dare-she-out-of-desperation-i-learned-how-to-forgive
Once a Fat Person, Always...
You would never know by looking at me now that I used to be fat.
But similar to alcoholics and drug addicts, "Once a fat person, always a fat person - whether the appearance matches or not".
And although my adult Asian genetics now manifest the stereotypical bamboo-like physique, to this day I remain empathetic towards anyone trying to lose weight.
Here's the trailer for Netflix's Insatiable:
By JaiChai
Mighty Kind of You for stopping by.
Truly hope to see you again!
About the Author
Believing that school was too boring, he dropped out of High School early; only to earn an AA, BS and MBA in less than 4 years much later in life – while working full-time as a Navy/Marine Corps Medic.
In spite of a fear of heights and deep water, he performed high altitude, free-fall parachute jumps and hazardous diving ops in deep, open ocean water.
After 24 years of active duty, he retired in Asia.
Since then, he's been a full-time, single papa and actively pursuing his varied passions (Writing, Disruptive Technology, Computer Science and Cryptocurrency - plus more hobbies too boring or bizarre for most folk).
He lives on an island paradise with his teenage daughter, longtime girlfriend and three dogs.
"My mind was a terrible thing to waste..." - JaiChai