Tye-dyed pants

Is this really necessary?

Tourist Fashion – Hot Socks!

This lady’s outfit was so awesome that I had to take her photo twice

Fat Disadvantage – Pants

Fat Disadvantage: Your pants get scrunched up and twisted between your massive thighs, giving you a wedgie and the appearance of walking through a flood.

Tourist Trick – posing with nature

IN a field of monuments, the best thing you could find to pose in front of is a tree? You let me down tourists.

You are failures as tourists

Marshmallow Tourist

I’m not really sure why tourists still wear the matching sweatsuit ensemble. Didn’t those go out with the (early) 90’s?

Cherry Blossom Tourists

It’s springtime here in Washington and you know what that means… TOURISTS! Tourist season kicks off every year with the National Cherry Blossom Festival. Yes, I know you could see these flowers in your own backyard but wouldn’t you rather sit in 2 hours of traffic around the Beltway to see them with 160,890,359 other people? Apparently there are many who say yes to that question. Lucky for them, we apparently have a new highway sign telling them where to go:

Rt 110 in Arlington

Bus service was in full swing as well with people viewing from the rooftop of the double-deckers:

The tour groups were in full swing with their flags:

And THIS lady even broke out the tye-dye for this special spring day. You’ve gotta love tourist fashion:

Tye-dye... check. Matching baseball cap... check. Matching tourist purse... check. Wait, you forgot the fanny pack!

Pink Elephant

“Donna, How much farther is the Five Guys?”

Stuff Tourists Like – Port-a-Potty’s

A whole farm of them…

Sweatpants and Fat Disadvantage – a Deadly Combination

The disadvantage is that everyone can see the cottage cheese beneath your sweat pants. (Come on, you were thinking it too)

“Thin Privilege” and Fat Affirmative Action

Recently I’ve clicked on too many of the fat-related links that wordpress attaches to my posts… and found this one on “thin privilege.” This is basically the idea that thin people have all sorts of advantages over fat people, and how that’s just not fair (sigh, tear). Congress should forget about all this economy talk and wars and unemployment problems, and focus on the REAL issue, fat discrimination! Perhaps America needs some sort of Fat Affirmative Action policies to fight back against Fattism? …I didn’t think so either.

Just for kicks, here are some things being said by commenters in defense of being fat (and therefore underprivileged):

“- Diets don’t work, really, really, really, really.
– You CAN and SHOULD do and wear whatever you want at any size or shape.
– Nothing bad will happen if you eat whatever you feel like”

First of all, let me say that I completely disagree with every single one of those statements. DENIAL people, that is what I see here. And PLEASE, DO NOT wear a speedo/belly shirt/spandex if you are overweight or obese. PLEASE. I’m begging you. If you do, I will catch you on camera and make fun of you!

I’m starting this post category to point out all the examples of thin privilege that I see, and let you be the judge on my perceptions. First one…

Advantage of being thin: You can actually fit on the escalator

“Jamal, where is the elevator?”