Comments on: Friday Meta-Fluff: All roads lead to SP

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:11:57 +0000

Stunning logic, Richard! If someone who looks at words that Dan Savage writes isn’t a douchebag, maybe Dan Savage is also not a douchebag!

I mean, it’s true that MAYBE Dan Savage is not a douchebag. It would be neat if he didn’t try to keep proving he was, though.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:03:35 +0000

Uh-oh, if so many people came to Kate from Dan Savage, that may be evidence that neither one is a douchebag! Maybe there can be a world where two good people can fight for their own causes, and help the same people, even if they’re both totally ignorant of the other’s cause! And maybe, some day, they can interact on a higher level than that of two obliviously egocentric blowhards!

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:26:02 +0000

Hey, I understood all of that, maybe I’ll get by okay in Italy.

If I can get everyone to write down what they’re saying to me.

Maybe I’ll pretend to be hearing-impaired.

By: Rio Iriri

Rio Iriri — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:23:42 +0000

Awesome Chris Matthews cartoon on Slowpoke!
http://www.slowpokecomics.com/

By: Chiara

Chiara — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:07:53 +0000

Hi, other Chiara! I don’t know any other Chiaras either! Sei italiana (io sono mezza, e mezza americana), o hai anche solamente il nome piu bella della lingua piu bella nel mondo :)

I hope y’all wait to have the Seattle meetup for when I’m back in the States. I also hope that there are other Shapelings reading this in NZ!

By: spacedcowgirl

spacedcowgirl — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:25:10 +0000

I believe I must have linked here from Big Fat Deal. (Off-topic–which I in turn linked to from some diet blog or another. So it really is a gateway drug.) I can’t really remember, though! SP immediately became my one go-to read. I am so thankful for it.

As an aside, Loveandlight, that is a really good point (about the unique yet sort of depressingly-the-same pressures on gay men vs. women to be thin and look good). I need to remember that not everyone here is exactly like me in age, gender, or any other way, yet SP does all of us so much good in combating societal messages.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:05:05 +0000

You were listed on wordpress for a recent post a few months back. I clicked and I’ve linked and been coming back to check in ever since!

By: Cath

Cath — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:56:05 +0000

I finally remembered: someone referred to you in one of Greta Christina’s comments.

Here’s the post – http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2007/10/a-losing-battle.html

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:54:28 +0000

I don’t even remember but it was the first FA blog I read and it had truly changed my thinking :)

By: Loveandlight

Loveandlight — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:48:31 +0000

I get the impression that most of the regular commentors here are women. I’m a gay man myself (sometimes I prefer the old clinical term “homosexual” because I can live without all the “missy mary” subcultural baggage that comes with the word “gay”), and if you’re an overweight homosexual man, you do very often have to deprogram yourself of the same self-defeating attitudes with which mainstream society brainwashes overweight women into shaming themselves so much. And a lot of that is because gay men are even worse about putting superficial physical attractiveness above all else than are heterosexual men!