All right, folks, I’ve got two long, thinky, almost-finished posts in the drafts folder, so I swear you’ll get some real, old-style content at some point this week. But right now, I just had to stop working on them and post about one of Samhita’s latest posts at Feministing. I hope she doesn’t mind that I’m … Continue reading »
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Quick Hit: Fat Talk Free Week
This is awesome, and I’ll be posting more about it on Broadsheet shortly. Happy Fat Talk Free Week, everybody! (Video is all text, so no transcript necessary.) Update: Karen pointed out in comments that transcripts are also for the visually impaired whose screen readers don’t read video — d’oh! of course! — and llencelyn has … Continue reading »
Friday fluff: Style inspiration
One of the best things you can do for your sense of self-worth is stop reading “women’s” magazines. They have to sell you figuratively on your own “imperfections” in order to literally sell you the beauty products that are their raison d’etre. Throwing those magazines away — or canceling your subscription, or reading Newsweek instead … Continue reading »
Why fat men need feminism
Amp’s amazing comic about the ambivalence and difficulty of trying to keep your head above the flood of fatphobia got me thinking about the experience of fat men. I’ve been wanting to write about fat men for a while, not only because I married one (the best one) recently, but because men have an experience … Continue reading »
Colonization of the Brain
Barry over at Alas has posted an old-ish comic of his, representing his inner monologue as a fat dude — and the dark thoughts that continue to creep in, even long after recognizing that “Self-hatred isn’t the natural consequence of being fat. It’s something I was taught.” It’s brutally honest, heartbreaking, and well worth a … Continue reading »
So that weight loss book thing…
Paul and Marianne have already covered this story about a study of 9 to 13-year-old girls involved in one of Duke University’s weight loss programs, which found that girls assigned to read a book with a weight loss story line (“Lake Rescue”) lost a little bit more weight than girls who read a non-diet book, … Continue reading »
Quick Hit the 2nd: HAES and FA in NYT
In case you missed it elsewhere, there was an article in yesterday’s magazine about Linda Bacon’s new book and the fat acceptance movement. Very 101 for regular readers here, but excellent to see in the paper. And the best part? There’s a cute illustration of happy fat and thin stick people, instead of a headless … Continue reading »
Quick Hit: “Racism without Racists”
Nicholas Kristof: The racism is difficult to measure, but a careful survey completed last month by Stanford University, with The Associated Press and Yahoo, suggested that Mr. Obama’s support would be about six percentage points higher if he were white. That’s significant but surmountable. Most of the lost votes aren’t those of dyed-in-the-wool racists. Such … Continue reading »
Debate Thread
If you want to discuss last night’s VP debate among Shapelings, here’s your thread. (Not exactly Friday Fluff, huh?) I wrote about it for Broadsheet this morning and have lots more to say, but I have to go turn in another post over there. The one thing I’ll add now is that I’m stunned by … Continue reading »
Quick Hit: The Myth of Objectivity
Suzie at Echidne’s has a must-read post today on the myth of journalistic objectivity. Read it with OBESITY CRISIS!!! reporting in mind, and it’ll knock your socks off. Journalists make some exceptions for columns and features, but for news, they are supposed to put aside feelings, biases, beliefs, experiences, cultural norms, values – everything that … Continue reading »
