So I begin

All my life I've been political, green, strong, personally liberal, boring and fat.
I have found my motivation for change, he is beautiful, intelligent, strong, compassionate, but he only likes skinny girls who agree with him, I can do that.
Along the way I intend to explore my inbuilt depths and see if I in fact mean any of them.
Am I political because I have strongly held beliefs, or because my mother and father do?
Am I green because I want to save the world, or so I can judge others?
Am I personally liberal because I genuinely believe everyone has the right to freedom, or to protect my own freedoms?
Am I boring because of these things or because I have never strived to be more that them?
Am I fat because of a combination of disability, genetics and a love of cooking, or because I'm a lazy glutton?
Today I begin my weight loss plan, starting with half an hour dancing my fat ass off to Christina Aguilera's Stripped album, anyone who's heard it aught to appreciate the irony, but in case no-one else has a guilty pleasure for bubblegum pop, it's a diatribe against the male dominated society that judges women solely on looks, and a celebration of love defined by acceptance, yeah yeah yeah, sorry Christina, it also has a driving beat and is good to wiggle to.
So before I begin this journey truly, let me address the concept of feminism, I was brought up with bread and butter feminism, equal pay for equal work, man and woman stood together at the pinnacle of humanity, I don't think this precludes the desire to be, well, desired, I've taken a lot of flack from the movement over the years because I like to bake, and keep a home, and sew and all those things we're told we're no longer entitled to enjoy if we want equality, so to those who would judge me on their own table and find me wanting, feel free to tell me all about it, but don't expect me to agree with you, I am woman, see me yield.