"Walking While Fat and Female – Or, Why I Don’t Care Not All Men are Like That"

[SheilaT]

2. I am totally impressed with that weight loss.

She's shed a good quarter to more than thirty percent of her original weight. I don't know what she looks like, but she's amazing.

And she's right to ignore the idiots who tell her not to walk.

I used to take the public bus in the Washington DC area. They were very reliable, but I often got off work after midnight, and periodically grown men would tell me I shouldn't be taking the bus that late. Huh! I couldn't afford a car -- actually more to the point I didn't want the burdensome cost of car ownership -- and I was quite safe and happy riding the bus, thank you very much.