Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose

So, Ozlem from Igigi wrote the other day to ask if I might mention a couple of their new summer dresses, and because she gives me discounts for these things, I shall oblige.
I kid! Sort of. I like the discounts and I genuinely dig these dresses. (For the record, I actually don’t like a lot [...]

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Yesterday at lunch, the subject of the “obesity epidemic” panic came up briefly. I scoffed a little, and a coworker said “you know, it’s funny. On the one hand, medically, we have all these doctors talking about health. On the other hand, socially, people are telling you to love yourself. Surely [...]

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Remember how back in January, I said I was going to try a bunch of exercise classes and report back here? And how, after five months, I’ve only written up belly dancing and Pilates? (Still haven’t gotten around to writing up water aerobics, but who better than an otter to tell you about that?) [...]

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(As always, as soon as I say I won’t be posting, I start posting.)
Update: I hear Rachel’s now getting physical threats over this, which is deeply uncool. I know that’s not the kind of thing to come from this crowd, but just for the record: I’m all for calling out her cruel, fucked-up behavior, but [...]

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I am tired and overwhelmed by the prospect of holding down the fort this week. I have a fluffy post about pretty dresses in the works, but right now, the substantive stuff just feels like a millstone. Over and over, we make the same points and are misunderstood and abused in the same [...]

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While Kate, FJ, and I freak out about our busy lives, head to Shakesville and check out the merciless photoshopping of the normally-incredibly-hot Clive Owen. (And check out the rest of Liss’s Impossibly Beautiful series, if you haven’t already.)
We’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: spreading self-loathing — to men, thin people, or whoever [...]

Filed under: Media, Other Stuff We Read, Sweet Machine | 24 Comments »

You guys remember how I said better women than I had written books while holding down full-time jobs and keeping totally on top of their blogs, so it shouldn’t be a problem? Yeah, turns out the key word there is “better.” I’m feeling really behind on the book (which is due Aug. 1) at the [...]

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I want to draw everyone’s attention to this post by our advice columnist ally, the spectacular Miss Conduct, at whose dinner parties I would dearly love to be a fly on the wall. (I had an advice-columnist crush on Miss Conduct even before I found out that her husband publishes my beloved Annals of Improbable [...]

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Re: “Obesity blamed for world’s ills”: I came home from New York this weekend to find that my boyfriend had been arguing with people on Slashdot all day about whether fat people were really causing global warming. When I asked him about it, he went off on a delightful rant about how if you [...]

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As Jessica at Feministing notes, the Wall Street Journal, that bastion of…something, has launched a new “women’s” section online. Three guesses what kind of topic is considered Suitable for the Ladies. Okay, to be fair, there are some career and politics-oriented articles, but there are also the obligatory articles on shopping, exercising, and dieting. The [...]

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