Posted on June 30, 2008 by fillyjonk
Dear Aunt Fattie,
Last summer one of my best friends (we’ll call her K) spent the day at the beach with another group of girls we hang out with. I was unable to go, but would normally have been there. That day they had a great time hanging out, drinking Bloody Marys. [...]
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Posted on June 27, 2008 by Sweet Machine
It’s summer here in the northern hemisphere, and the living, as they say, is easy. Or at least, it’s been easy for me the last week because I’ve been on a little staycation since my classes/orals/grading frenzy ended; I have stuff to work on over the summer, but suddenly I live in a world of [...]
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Posted on June 26, 2008 by fillyjonk
It’s June, which means it’s wedding season, which means that every form of media apparently needs to start featuring All Weddings All The Time. I feel like it’s a little better this year, perhaps because there have been actually newsworthy marriage-related developments. Still, ’tis the season for meaningless wedding-based fluff pieces, and who [...]
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Posted on June 25, 2008 by fillyjonk
Founder Stacy Bias emailed us yesterday to alert us to the launch of her new website, The Fat Experience Project, which The Rotund has already rhapsodically reviewed. From Stacy’s email:
The goal of the Fat Experience Project is to map the global experience of fat in a way that is human, has a face, a [...]
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Posted on June 25, 2008 by Kate Harding
Hey, there might be more than one Em out there now, but I’m looking for the one who left this comment several months ago:
Back when I first saw pictures of you, in your personal history entry, I felt so cheated and disappointed. “So that’s her? The poster child of fat bloggers? Just another thin girl [...]
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Posted on June 25, 2008 by fillyjonk
Dear Barbara Ehrenreich,
This is satire.
This is just lazy.
See, one of them exposes and mocks society by catching the reader up in appealing rhetoric and then twisting the tourniquet tighter and tighter until she can’t breathe.
The other one consists mainly of appropriation and regurgitation of other people’s tired cracks about fat and overconsumption. You know, [...]
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Posted on June 24, 2008 by Sweet Machine
We haven’t talked a whole lot about crafting and fat in the past, but I know we have some crafty Shapelings out there! (Has anyone knit or crocheted an Adipose cell yet?) I’m an obsessive knitter myself (though the level of obsession ratchets up and down depending on my school schedule), and I’ve been delighted [...]
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Posted on June 23, 2008 by fillyjonk
Hi Aunt Fattie –
So I’m a late-twenty-something lady who is dating another twenty-something lady. I am a curvy sort of lady who spent years upon years hating myself and censoring myself and focusing on other people’s (perceived) dislike of my body, etc., went through much disordered eating, and am just finally starting to come [...]
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Posted on June 22, 2008 by Kate Harding
The Fat Rant 3 thread is dying down now, so I want to highlight a comment Deborah Lipp just made toward the end of it, and my response.
Deborah:
It’s an awesome video, but I don’t love what she said to the kids. She said (close paraphrase) “I’m fat. People come in all different sizes.” And while [...]
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DC/Balto Shapelings: Call me!
Hey, Shapelings in DC, Baltimore, and environs, please contact me! Shapeling Kate217 is setting up a meetup next month, and I don’t want to put the details right on the site, so I need the contact info of anyone who’s interested. (Then I will probably pass you off to Kate217, who is about [...]
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