I just went back and read this after your other post about the reaction of people.
Wow. I agree with you so much. I *hate* the comments/looks I get for not being obese in Fandom. I hate the pressure to eat crap food (how many times has a move night involved fast food rubbish, or a convention only had softdrink and chocolate bars on sale?). I hate the fact that mentioning things about health and diet to my friends who fall into at risk groups for diabetes, heart disease, cancer etc gets me labeled as a "kooky vegan" rather than someone who doesn't want my friends to die or suffer terrible illness. I know I have done more research into diet/excercise/health than the average person as a byproduct of vegan research/interest and it saddens me that so many people I care about are at risk. People don't accept and encourage other risktaking behaviours like smoking, drink driving, unsafe sex etc which kill less people combined each year in Australia than obesity related illness so why is okay?
The apathy and lack of support to weight loss/increased fitness is not a fandom thing though. I put on 7kg in the first 6 months of moving to Canberra (alot given my body shape and build) as well as overall becoming less fit (a desk job will do that). When I spoke to alot of people about this they were all like "oh but you're ok" or "I still think you're hot" and these were non-fans. At one point I asked Nem (who doesn't identify with traditional fandom and has only ever been to one convention) not to bring over chocolate biscuits every day and he didn't understand why becuase "you're still beautiful". A sweet thought, but it didn't make me feel any better about the fact I struggle to run up three flights of stairs (I used to run up 6 comfortably).
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Wow. I agree with you so much. I *hate* the comments/looks I get for not being obese in Fandom. I hate the pressure to eat crap food (how many times has a move night involved fast food rubbish, or a convention only had softdrink and chocolate bars on sale?). I hate the fact that mentioning things about health and diet to my friends who fall into at risk groups for diabetes, heart disease, cancer etc gets me labeled as a "kooky vegan" rather than someone who doesn't want my friends to die or suffer terrible illness. I know I have done more research into diet/excercise/health than the average person as a byproduct of vegan research/interest and it saddens me that so many people I care about are at risk. People don't accept and encourage other risktaking behaviours like smoking, drink driving, unsafe sex etc which kill less people combined each year in Australia than obesity related illness so why is okay?
The apathy and lack of support to weight loss/increased fitness is not a fandom thing though. I put on 7kg in the first 6 months of moving to Canberra (alot given my body shape and build) as well as overall becoming less fit (a desk job will do that). When I spoke to alot of people about this they were all like "oh but you're ok" or "I still think you're hot" and these were non-fans. At one point I asked Nem (who doesn't identify with traditional fandom and has only ever been to one convention) not to bring over chocolate biscuits every day and he didn't understand why becuase "you're still beautiful". A sweet thought, but it didn't make me feel any better about the fact I struggle to run up three flights of stairs (I used to run up 6 comfortably).