I’m headed out of town and won’t be posting again until Monday. If you want to talk more about the holiday, Sweet Machine’s thread is still going. If you want to talk about anything else, put it here. Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate!
Posted in November 2008 …
Surviving Thanksgiving, again
As we all know, Thanksgiving is a fraught time for fat people and anyone else trying to practice body acceptance and self-love. On the one hand, the whole holiday is about celebrating the bounty of food, which in many families means eating big servings of dishes you never even think about for the other 364 … Continue reading »
In search of body positivity on cable TV
So I haven’t had cable TV in several years — I do most of my TV watching via Netflix (and am thus perpetually behind by a seaons), and this has been okay with me because I have always really liked TV, and thus am prone to watch more of it than is good for my … Continue reading »
The scale that isn’t
While hunting for a gift for my mother in law, I came across these novelty scales. One substitutes affirmations for numbers, and one does away with numbers altogether — but both come with those little sliding scale markers, so you can see whether you weigh more than you did last week. I’m a little boggled … Continue reading »
Open Thread
Talk amongst yourselves. Self-linking and puppy pictures always welcome.
A Whole New Kind of Headless Fatty
Y’all, this is unbelievable. Yesterday, I got an e-mail from Shapeling Damanique about an ad she saw in a train station in the Netherlands. Writes Damanique (who also goes by Danielle around here): “The idea behind this ad: the fat lady gets distracted by a bag of candy, ‘loses her head’, and people could see … Continue reading »
Guest Blogger Lauredhel: “The Obese”
The awesome Lauredhel of Hoyden about Town wrote to us the other day and asked if we’d take on one of her pet peeves: using the phrase “the obese” to describe the entirety of fatkind. We explained that we are A) huge fans of hers, and B) a bunch of slackass losers, so if she … Continue reading »
Friday Fluff: Bring Me the Fluff
Shapelings, I’m not feeling very fluffy today. Over the last 24 hours, my very, very old dog Lucille has not been doing well, and Al and I decided it’s finally time to put her down. I haven’t made the call yet, but barring a miracle, we’re going to do it within the week. I adopted … Continue reading »
Better Day, Apparently
Because this one just cracked me up:
Join the Impact — Protest for LGBTQ Rights on Saturday
On Saturday, Nov. 15, at 1:30 p.m. EST/10:30 a.m. PST/12:30 p.m. CMT, there will be a nationwide protest against California’s Prop. 8 and the anti-gay initiatives passed in Arizona, Florida, and Arkansas last week. There are protests being planned in every state in the union, not to mention a few other countries. For more background, … Continue reading »
