Amanda ( 9 years ago )
My publc and naked ballot.1. I will vote No on Motion 1. I don't agree with the gracmatimal structure of the measure. The term  their  is used but there is no plural noun preceeding that word at any point. I believe the word  it's  is more appropriate.2. I will vote Yes on Motion 2. It seems like a simple cleanup issue.3. I will vote No on Motion 3. I object to the term  student  to refer to those individuals up to age 35. Although many people continue education or return to institutions of higher learning, the title of student implies direct post secondary education. The new proposed membership category of Young Adults will conflict with Student membership at times. The overlapping situation will make signing up for membership more confusing and unorganized. I advocate for the removal of the student membership option.4. I will vote Yes on Motion 4. I see the current situation as supply and demand. The older members have had time to explore and accept the lifestyle. Youth membership is the weakest link in the organization. Offering incentive for diversification is imperative for the prosperity of all members. Hopefuily, this new membership catagory may replace student membership.

Open ( 9 years ago )
.  Fat  or  obese  is not always wihtin ones control. There are many other factors besides food and exercise involved in a person's weight. Consider the person who appears large because they have excess fluid retention from congenital heart or kidney disease. I knew a child, who when she died, was so large, yet it was all from excess fluid retention due to a genetic abnormality which affected her ability to grow skin. So sad. BMI charts might have said she was obese, yet she had almost no fat on her.As for your soda remark, I do not believe it is for me to deny someone bodily autonomy by telling them what they ought to eat or not. I will add that I am vegetarian, and not overweight, in case you were wondering what I might look like. It is none of our business what other people choose to put in their bodies, or how they look.I cannot force my skin to tan or my body to gain weight proportionally. Some matters are beyond our control. Society would prefer we look a certain way, but aesthetic desires are a cultural construct and not always related to health. Please don't judge others.

Bozi ( 9 years ago )
or how they have responded to us, we tend to ivsnet a lot of value into the opinions of others.    But, in the end, it is our own responsbility to affirm ourselves regardless of what others may think or do.  One of the great gifts I hear many nudist say they receive as a nudist is a sense of self acceptance.   Nature doesn't make junk.  Living life does gives wear and tear.  Never, never ask me to believe that a woman missing a breast because of life saving surgery is somehow now broken.  Yes, nature does experiment and sometimes we could be shocked into a new awareness by all the ways that nature does experiment.  Most of us never see or imagine all of what that may be.   Yet, as a community we pride ourselves on our ability to transcend and to accept and therefore affirm.  In the giving, we receive and that process gives us a sense of self that speaks very highly of who we are.   No shame, no guilt   a community that should proudly state that we are where our ancesters were and where our collected future should be going back towards.