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Idealizing the body and wanting to control it go hand-in-hand; it is impossible to say whether one causes the other. A physical ideal gives us [...]
August 11, 2008
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So, friend of the blog Mary Anne Mohanraj has posted a question in her personal journal and wonders what Shapelings have to say about it. [...]
August 10, 2008
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Hey, I need to apologize. A couple of commenters recently found a two-year-old post that ended with a fucking textbook example of privileged [...]
August 9, 2008
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I just got an e-mail from Christine, owner of B & Lu, telling me she’s responded to the thread over at The Rotund about their lack of [...]
August 8, 2008
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It’s my birthday next week. I’ll be turning 29, and though I have a tiny bit of angst at how “late” in the “late [...]
August 8, 2008
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From an “internet marketing specialist”: I was looking at websites under the keyword bra stores and came across your [...]
August 8, 2008
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Please check out this Alternet article that I just posted about over at Broadsheet. It tells the tragic tale of men who, after being bombarded by [...]
August 8, 2008
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Note to the person who found us by googling “the key to happiness is your being thin”: It isn’t.
August 6, 2008
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From Julia of Fatshionista (also a frequent commenter here), a wonderful post about racism and the politics of beauty. Presenting oneself well, [...]
August 6, 2008
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From the underutilized livejournal community Fatshionism comes further evidence that the people responsible for promoting fat bias on airplanes [...]
August 5, 2008
