General Jul 23, 2014 at 4:00 pm

This Time of Year Is About Frivolity and Fun and Being Alive and I Hate It

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No one cares enough about you to care what you look like. You're just overly narcissistic.
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Oh nice journalism for once Mercury! Oh wait, just kidding! This was originally posted on July 2nd at the Stranger. That's a Seattle paper, for all you peasants that don't know.

It would be nice if we could actually get some good writing in this rag.
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I see is overhanging blubber all over the place with no shame in their game.
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No, wait Sean, come back! You need to add another thirty fucking paragraphs to this piece of shit!
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A Sean Nelson piece? Seeing some Y2K vapor trails....
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So actually you have it a bit wrong Sean.....

Summer is for skinny women, and bigger men.

People like me also are TERRIFIED when summer hits. 5 feet 7 inches 115 pounds for a man?.... tell me that is not MORE terrifying than being overweight and taking your shirt off!

I eat well and lots of food and can't gain weight so my body looks like a girl's body (except I rock climb V.8 and 5.12c so I am really strong).

Oh how I wish I was overweight during the summer instead of feeling humiliated and ACTUALLY unattractive!

Big guys (yes even overweight ones) get the ladies people like me spend all their time alone, so just a heads up I would gladly switch bodies with you anytime.
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Authored by Sean Nelson on behalf of Tobias Funke. "There are dozens of us! DOZENS!"
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Visit AANR.com for a nudist venue close by. Nudists are by far some of the safest and accepting people you will ever meet. Visit a nudist venue and you will see surgery scars, mastectomies, varicose veins, cellulite, skinny, overweight, short tall, birth marks, and regular bodies that simply enjoy the freedom of not being confined in clothes. All sizes and shapes make up this world. The one thing I hear the most is "why did it take me so long to visit a nudist resort?" 1-800-TRY-NUDE

Shirley Gauthier
Springfield, Oregon
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I grew up skinny and every time I'd take my shirt off people would tell me how skinny I was. It made me so self-conscious that I also dreaded exposing myself for many years. Then one day when I was in my 20's I stumbled across a group of nudists at a secluded city beach. There were all kinds of body types and ages. So I took a chance and joined them and it was the start of my liberation. I'm still skinny, but I'm not worried about what people might think or say. I realize how much corporations use shame to twist our perceptions of our bodies and others' bodies. Men are just as susceptible to commercial shame as women.
This Saturday at Rooster Rock State Park you can get naked and covered in mud at the mass photo shoot for a local photographer who's doing a book called Tribal I.D.-http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/in…

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