Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose

I’m sure no regular readers still harbor doubts as to whether fatness is used as an excuse to shame and terrorize children. Just in case you needed a reminder, though, here’s the Washington City Paper’s story “The Battle Over Heavy T.” It’s the story of a young boy who is constantly being hunted [...]

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Please enjoy this brilliant perspective from non-reader Oliver, who decided to add it to a (now deleted) comment on the thread about trolls making rape and death threats. After explaining to me why I’m a dumbass for getting “riled up” by comments like “hope you get aids while being raped by a homeless man in [...]

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The Big Fat Carnival is up at Seeworthy! Go read!

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Updated: Go here to see it! (Viewing it as a slideshow with the info turned on is particularly awesome, as Sweet Machine pointed out.) And go here to see a post about it.
Thanks to everyone who sent photos, and keep ‘em comin’! Send a photo along with your height and weight to katesblog at gmail [...]

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So, I mentioned on the Stop Lying about Your Weight thread (among other places) that I was making my best guess at my own weight (170-180), but I haven’t stepped on a scale in ages, for the sake of my sanity. But then I started thinking, well, what if I’m underestimating my weight and therefore [...]

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I am a huge advocate of doing fun exercise instead of joyless grueling Working Out, and I am therefore extremely ambivalent about the gym. Given my druthers, I’d get all my exercise from dance, yoga, and swimming, instead of just running nowhere like a rat in a wheel (albeit a rat with an iPod). [...]

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And I made a graph of all the wrong answers!

More on this at The Rotund and Shakesville. 

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Oh my fucking God, this article by Sally Ann Voak is precious. It’s a nearly perfect distillation of every dumbassed myth and stereotype about fat people, with a heapin’ helpin’ of woefully ignorant judgment. I kinda want to bronze it, it’s so perfect. (By which I mean, it might be triggering or infuriating to some, [...]

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It’s mentioned in comments on Sweet Machine’s latest post, but I wanted to put a plug up top for The Rotund’s guessing game, ’cause I’d like to see as many people as possible participating. I can tell you that nobody’s got it exactly right so far.

This is The Rotund. Think you can guess [...]

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A few weeks ago, I got an e-mail from a woman named Mindy, who had been my best friend at nerd camp when I was 14. We lost touch somewhere around senior year of high school, but she recently stumbled across a link to this blog and realized I was that Kate Harding — and [...]

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