Fox News Anchor Defends Fat People?
By now I think most of you have probably heard about the NWA flight attendants who are demanding that they be allowed to wear the same "sexy" red dress as their thinner counter-parts. And I'll give you...
View ArticleThere are worse things than being a fat bride
This article just broke my heart. Samantha Clowe didn't want to be the dreaded "fat bride", so she dutifully got permission from her doctor and started following the LighterLife diet plan. It certainly...
View ArticleCheck out this great discussion
This humble article on The Adipositivity Project over at Sociological Images has spurred a hell of a good discussion on fatness. There are a few folks beating the fat=unhealthy drum, but there are so...
View ArticleIs it okay to be fat?
This is the question posed in the Nightline debate linked to in withoutscene's posting below. The way I see it, when we ask "is it okay to be fat?", we're really asking a bunch of other questions:Is a...
View ArticleHUGE Mistake
So, I kept hearing about Huge. A friend told me about it, and I saw it mentioned around the internets. But I ignored it or shrugged it off. Why? Because I totally had it CONFUSED with that other fat...
View ArticleHUGE Misrepresentation
I'm going to start with a quote from Ginia Bellafante's New York Times review of the new ABC show "Huge," starring Nikki Blonsky. First, she describes a "gainer" who writes a blog, and then she...
View ArticleDo parents discriminate against their fat kids?
This seems like such an obvious concept to me. After all, parents are people who grew up in our fat-hating society, so of course that will have some effect on how they treat their fat children. This...
View ArticleBig Fat Kiss-In
So, no doubt you've heard about the Marie Claire fiasco, or as Lesley Kinzel calls it, the "EWWW, FATTIES!" debacle.Stacy Bias had the incredible idea of doing a kiss-in in front of Marie Claire in NY....
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Support Your Local Badass Fatass
If you're in the Bay Area and like to support businesses that promote fat liberation, hit up Carrot's Coffee and Tea in San Bruno.* This cafe, run by the super-rad fatty Notblueatall, has organic and...
View ArticleHarriet Brown's 'Project Body Talk'
The amazing Harriet Brown has started Project Body Talk, inspired by the StoryCorps oral history project. According to the website:Project BodyTalk is a safe place where people can share how they feel...
View ArticleThe Valentine's Day Post
Happy Valentines Day, everyone!Yes, grumble grumble, I know it's a Hallmark holiday. I know it's a cynical attempt to increase the sales of red underwear - red underwear that may even be available in...
View ArticleA Non-Dieting Vignette
Last night there was cake at my house. Different types of cake.One of them was a kind I don't like. So I didn't have any, because I can have all the cakes in the world, at any time I wish to. The kinds...
View ArticleThe desire for weight loss is never about weight loss
When a person is craving weight loss, they are never craving weight loss. Weight loss in and of itself is meaningless. A person tends to crave weight loss because they believe that lost weight will...
View ArticleSeeking the Straight and Narrow
Lynne Gerber's new book, "Seeking the Straight and Narrow," subtitled "Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America," is now available from US booksellers, from international...
View ArticleThe whacked narcissism of self hatred
I was reading an article the other day, and one of the commenters accused people who say their love their bodies of narcissism. I thought that was interesting. Is loving our bodies narcissistic? Maybe...
View ArticleLoving Your Body
A very interesting conversation has been going on in the tumblrverse about the meme of loving your body. Marianne Kirby argues that this meme can be problematic. Kirby explained her issues with the...
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