Comments on: Concerned about Health, My Ass

By: Nazira Bashour

Nazira Bashour — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:34:33 +0000

I am not sure if my blood pressure has lowered yet but TELLING GIRLS THEY SHOULD DEVELOP EATING DISORDERS IS INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am recovered from one and I will preach again and again there is nothing healthy about what I did to myself. What is healthy is these so called overweight black women who love their bodies. WTF? I want to give this Debra lady a piece of my mind. Except I also have a large ass like the woman Buffie she hates so she’ll probably just run away screaming OMG TEH FATS before I even get a word out.

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By: littlem

littlem — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:29:06 +0000

“My biggest issue with both Dickerson and Waldman is that they come off as so profoundly lacking in self awareness. They both have a tendency to write about their own neuroses as if they’re universals — which is a whole different thing from writing about your own neuroses as if they’re more common than people realize, but still neuroses.”

Me!Me! Roth in a nutshell.

Most of you know my position on these issues (and they are multiple and legion — something these patriarchy-loyalist single-issue pseudo-journalists seem unwilling to grasp).
Between them, Kate and the Rotund have covered it well, and I’m too angry to say anything else coherent right now.

By: Belated Friday Fluffy at Hoyden About Town

Belated Friday Fluffy at Hoyden About Town — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:54:33 +0000

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By: kateharding

kateharding — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:42:36 +0000

Yet another person fretting over the glamorizing of fatness? That’s like the fourth time I’ve seen that arguement this weak

BStu, do share the others. I love it when my head explodes.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:40:35 +0000

Holy crap!! I don’t watch American Idol so I just saw a pic of Jordan Sparks last night and I’m compeled to ask in what frickin universe is that chick fat? Lord save me from sanctimonious psychos.

By: kateharding

kateharding — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:40:33 +0000

I imagine it would be lots of fun to drink beer and argue with her, it’s just not a lot of fun when sober.

Sara, good point!

Geezer, no kidding.

Dan, thanks.