Posted on February 29, 2008 by Sweet Machine
This NYT article covers a supposed recent trend, that of throwing mani/pedi parties (at salons!) for girls as young as 6.
Traditionally, young girls have played with unattended M.A.C. eye shadow or Chanel foundation, hoping to capture a whiff of sophistication. In the recent past, young girls have also tagged along on beauty expeditions by their [...]
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Posted on February 28, 2008 by fillyjonk
One of the criticisms we frequently get from incredulous dieters runs like this: “You can’t possibly expect me to believe that fat acceptance activists never wish they were thinner.” The idea being, I guess, that fat acceptance means thinking that fat is better than thin, and that it therefore all collapses into hypocrisy if we [...]
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Posted on February 27, 2008 by kateharding
I’ve been remiss in not mentioning National Eating Disorders Awareness Week yet (and in not posting much this week at all). But hey, it’s only hump day — still plenty of week left.
The theme this year, which I absolutely love, is “Be Comfortable in Your Genes.“
Brilliant. And not just because they’ve tied it into a [...]
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Posted on February 25, 2008 by kateharding
You knew that already, of course. But here’s why today. When Hayley Atwell, star of the upcoming film Cassandra’s Dream, came over to her house and ate like a bird, Thompson asked why — and learned that Miramax had asked Atwell to lose weight for the upcoming Brideshead Revisited, in which they both star.
According to [...]
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Posted on February 25, 2008 by kateharding
Friend of Shapely Prose Sheila Addison is soon going to be teaching an awesome-sounding course on size acceptance for future marriage and family therapists, and she needs ideas for the course reader she’s compiling. Help her out, shapelings! -Kate
by Dr. Sheila Addison
Friends in the Fatosphere:
Recently, The Rotund asked What Do We Do? when [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2008 by fillyjonk
Well, the blog wasn’t working from my work computer today, and I actually kinda was for a change, so I didn’t get a chance to post the Friday Fluff I’ve been hanging on to since last week. But here it is, for you brave souls who keep checking the blog on into the weekend [...]
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Posted on February 21, 2008 by fillyjonk
Some people might be surprised to know how many of our readers are not fat, and yet benefit from and espouse the principles of fat acceptance. There are valuable lessons about body acceptance that can come from being thin — and even from getting thinner. Shapeling Dani recently endured a medical mystery that [...]
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Posted on February 21, 2008 by Sweet Machine
We’re having a bit of a slow day here at SP. Kate’s fending off reporters left and right, Fillyjonk is unavailable today, and I’m staring down the omg-why-is-my-university-on-the-quarter-system-anyway end-of-quarter blues. I’ve sat here for the last half hour trying to come up with a post full of trenchant, witty analysis of some fat-related thing, but [...]
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Posted on February 20, 2008 by kateharding
There’s a new article on the fatosphere in a local paper, RedEye. (And apparently I’m on the cover of the print version. Yikers.)
(Update: It’s true! Double yikers!)
Paul from Big Fat Blog was also interviewed for the article, and Colleen of the Pretty Pear got a whole sidebar about plus-size fashion, which I didn’t even see [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2008 by kateharding
Apparently, I’m gonna have to get myself one of those charming Cougar in Training t-shirts. (Unless I’m already old enough to be a cougar proper? If I am, don’t tell me.) ‘Cause I am fucking gaga for Kenny Blogginz, “Shakesville’s Senior Teen Analyst and 18-year-old Man-Boy of Leisure.”
His latest edition of Teenz Korner asks the [...]
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