Friday, March 10
Mar. 11th, 2023 12:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
A slight, tiny improvement in the temperature outside.
My husband got up fairly early and made a run to town to get his hair cut, to pick up the mail, and then to the South end of the city to pick up remaining materials for doing the bathroom tiles, and some electrical items.
After doing the normal chores we went to the riding barn.
River did okay, but seemed kind of in a not fantastic mood. He did the work, and was pretty reasonable about it all, but he didn't have a pleasant expression too much today. Usually you can tell when he's in a good mood, and today he was...tolerant.
I worked on many of the same things, cleaning up the turn on the haunches, getting good trots from a stand still, better Liberty circles (happy with those today), and trying to improve a difficult pattern at Liberty on the ground.
We chatted with R and her husband K, which was nice. I have to say, my husband has the gift of the gab.
Then we came home and watched "Shot Gun Preacher", which was pretty awful, even if it was based on someone's life experiences.
Thoughts: A person on Facebook re-posted an article slamming the film "The Whale" for being a harmful fantasy about obese depression/slovenly living.
This person is, herself, pretty obese and in a few ways kind of lives some of the usual expectations of a very heavy person. Mainly that she doesn't exercise, eats a lot (I'm guessing from her posts about pizzas), has some health issues that she strenuously states have nothing to do with being heavy, and plays a lot of video games and smoking pot.
I haven't watched "The Whale" yet, but I hope to. I've actually seen a lot of comments on posts about it from people who said they were obese, and that the film does a good job of showing what it is like to live with that kind of weight, and the struggle of depression and so on.
I'm just going with my instinct here, and feeling like my acquaintance is feeling a bit of cognitive dissonance about obesity and/or health and mental health issues.
I know there is a whole movement about "fat people can be healthy" and to stop judging people etc. To some point I agree, and I don't walk around giving people shit just for how they look. YET, I also know a few pretty heavy people who struggle with food addiction, depression, mobility and health problems directly related to their weight. Even if they have a nice home and a good job. I know a few others in my family who I likely don't know the whole story, but I am willing to bet that they struggle with their weight, and likely some emotional issues.
I don't think anyone gets to being morbidly obese the way "The Whale" depicts it (he's supposed to weight about 600 pounds) without it being about mental health.
I learned about a written form called "chiasmus", often used to elicit an emotion response or emphasis.
"What is the simple definition of chiasmus?
A chiasmus is a two-part sentence or phrase, where the second part is a mirror image of the first. This does not mean that the second part mirrors the same exact words that appear in the first part—that is a different rhetorical device called antimetabole—but rather that concepts and parts of speech are mirrored"
It is seem sometimes in poetry, and OFTEN in the bible.
https://www.chiasmusxchange.com/explanatory-notes/
A slight, tiny improvement in the temperature outside.
My husband got up fairly early and made a run to town to get his hair cut, to pick up the mail, and then to the South end of the city to pick up remaining materials for doing the bathroom tiles, and some electrical items.
After doing the normal chores we went to the riding barn.
River did okay, but seemed kind of in a not fantastic mood. He did the work, and was pretty reasonable about it all, but he didn't have a pleasant expression too much today. Usually you can tell when he's in a good mood, and today he was...tolerant.
I worked on many of the same things, cleaning up the turn on the haunches, getting good trots from a stand still, better Liberty circles (happy with those today), and trying to improve a difficult pattern at Liberty on the ground.
We chatted with R and her husband K, which was nice. I have to say, my husband has the gift of the gab.
Then we came home and watched "Shot Gun Preacher", which was pretty awful, even if it was based on someone's life experiences.
Thoughts: A person on Facebook re-posted an article slamming the film "The Whale" for being a harmful fantasy about obese depression/slovenly living.
This person is, herself, pretty obese and in a few ways kind of lives some of the usual expectations of a very heavy person. Mainly that she doesn't exercise, eats a lot (I'm guessing from her posts about pizzas), has some health issues that she strenuously states have nothing to do with being heavy, and plays a lot of video games and smoking pot.
I haven't watched "The Whale" yet, but I hope to. I've actually seen a lot of comments on posts about it from people who said they were obese, and that the film does a good job of showing what it is like to live with that kind of weight, and the struggle of depression and so on.
I'm just going with my instinct here, and feeling like my acquaintance is feeling a bit of cognitive dissonance about obesity and/or health and mental health issues.
I know there is a whole movement about "fat people can be healthy" and to stop judging people etc. To some point I agree, and I don't walk around giving people shit just for how they look. YET, I also know a few pretty heavy people who struggle with food addiction, depression, mobility and health problems directly related to their weight. Even if they have a nice home and a good job. I know a few others in my family who I likely don't know the whole story, but I am willing to bet that they struggle with their weight, and likely some emotional issues.
I don't think anyone gets to being morbidly obese the way "The Whale" depicts it (he's supposed to weight about 600 pounds) without it being about mental health.
I learned about a written form called "chiasmus", often used to elicit an emotion response or emphasis.
"What is the simple definition of chiasmus?
A chiasmus is a two-part sentence or phrase, where the second part is a mirror image of the first. This does not mean that the second part mirrors the same exact words that appear in the first part—that is a different rhetorical device called antimetabole—but rather that concepts and parts of speech are mirrored"
It is seem sometimes in poetry, and OFTEN in the bible.
https://www.chiasmusxchange.com/explanatory-notes/
