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No Progress

  Well, it's been 3 more months along my "journey", and I'm basically moon-walking. This "journey" I started in April is no closer to the goal that I was back then.  If you've been reading these blogs, you will have learned about my frustration with hoops and barriers that must be crossed in order to be "rewarded" with life-saving surgery. I don't think there's a word for what I'm looking for. If you hate black and brown people, you're "racist". If you hate certain nationalities, you're "xenophobic" If you hate gay/bi/trans folks, you're "homophobic" If you hate lower class, poor folks, you're "classist". If you hate disabled people, you're "ableist". But if you hate fat people, you're just normal, apparently.  There's no word for that. So let's call them "Lipidist".  "Lipid" for "fat", and "ist" just cuz that...