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On my forehead. I noticed them this morning. I’ve been particularly stressed lately and also not moisturizing enough, so my reaction was “oh god, wrinkles! Where did those come from? I need to moisturize more! I need to exfoliate more! What am I doing to myself? Why am [...]
Filed under: Feminism, Fillyjonk, Self-Image | 92 Comments »
So Rebecca Traister has an interesting post up over at Broadsheet about the recent bloggy kerfuffle over the NYT’s coverage of BlogHer. There’s lots to talk about there, but I want to highlight one point that I don’t see discussed very often (although I might actually have mentioned it here before — I think that was [...]
Filed under: Feminism, Feminist Blogs, Miscellaneous, Self-Image | 109 Comments »
Check it out.
As Paul said, they’ve addressed a lot of the stuff we’ve been bitching about. Well done.
Update: after reading comments from people who checked it out more thoroughly than I did, I’m reserving that “Well done.” Points for improvement, but as Sniper said in comments, with regard to an article Perpetua and A Sarah [...]
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If you don’t read NYLON or aren’t an obsessive Gossip fan, you might (like me) have missed a recent photoshoot with fat icon Beth Ditto that used racist imagery. Threadbared has a spot-on analysis of what’s so troubling about the image, which you can see reproduced in the post:
The housekeeper is meant to be invisible, [...]
Filed under: Fashion, Fat, Intersectionality, Media, Pop Culture, Sweet Machine | 93 Comments »
I have a love-hate relationship with dermatologists. Scratch that — I have a hate-hate relationships with dermatologists except for one fine doctor who drastically improved my life. I’ve had acne on and off since I was about 15, and I’ve lost track of how many doctors I’ve seen about it. I’ve smeared countless lotions on [...]
Filed under: Other Stuff We Read, Self-Image, Sweet Machine | 174 Comments »
Since it’s been shooting trolls in a barrel week, I couldn’t resist sharing this gem from the moderation queue:
I don’t believe that anyone *chooses* to be a large size, but I feel that we all have a choice in whether or not we let ourselves get there.
You don’t choose to be fat! You just choose [...]
Filed under: Sweet Machine, Trolls | 190 Comments »
So this morning, Australian Shapeling Marg sent us an article with the headline, “Americans must diet to save their economy.” Yeah, really. The basic idea is, since producing food uses so much energy, we could halve our energy demands and hold off fuel price increases if we all just stopped eating so much. Yeah, really.
Our [...]
Filed under: Dieting/WLS, Food, Guest Bloggers, Politics, You've Got to Be Kidding Me | 127 Comments »
Shapelings, I need a ruling on this dress. Do we love it or hate it?
I’ve never been much of a fan of bubble hems, but I love the color and like the cut. (It’s one of those that could totally go either way on my body, but I think it would work.) And the bubble [...]
Filed under: Fashion | 121 Comments »
The new tag line is taken from a monster thread over at Shakesville, where Liss has pissed off a bunch of totally awesum gamer dudez who don’t like teh fat chix. A Sanity Watchers warning does apply there, though the thread is also fucking hilarious, so I recommend it for those who aren’t feeling especially fragile.
Anyway, [...]
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Kate will be on a panel about body image at this year's BlogHer conference on Friday, July 24, at 1:15 p.m.
Stay tuned for a college tour in the fall and maybe some stuff in between.
Notes from the Fatosphere
Fat scrubs, anyone?
Shapeling RedSonja is hoping some of you have some expertise in finding some shapely scrubs.
I work in a veterinary hospital. Uniform is scrubs. Unisex scrubs. Unisex scrub pants that have a high waist in the front, and low in the back. This is just wonderful when I have to bend over to pick up a [...]
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