• Jessica Alba, before and after airbrushing. I see a thinner waist, thinner thighs, more rounded hips, bigger boobs, more make-up, inexplicably [...]

  OFFS

  December 8, 2008
• It’s been a long time since my days of rabid Ani Difranco fandom, but man, she’s still got it. Via Jezebel, I just clicked over to [...]

  There’s nothing wrong with your face

  December 5, 2008
• Though I’m a curmudgeon who mostly opts out of the obligatory gift-giving at this time of year, I do appreciate hearing about the great [...]

  Friday fluff: Holiday presents

  December 5, 2008
• I’m late in getting to this, so you may have already seen it, but our dear Shapeling (and so much more) Buffpuff is Diva of the Week over [...]

  Buffpuff is Diva of the Week!

  December 4, 2008

• On Sunday, when Dan and I got home from Thanksgiving traveling, we got burritos at Chipotle. On Monday, what I wanted for dinner was a Chipotle [...]

  Burritos and desire

  December 3, 2008
• Attention Shapelings! Remember how, a while back, we asked you what you wanted to see next out of Shapely Prose, and then you told us all kinds [...]

  Announcing the Shapely Prose community site, or, I hope you have some time to kill

  December 2, 2008
• You guys may have noticed that ol’ Aunt Fattie hasn’t been around lately. Luckily, we still have friend of the blog Miss Conduct, who [...]

  Miss Conduct on suspected anorexia

  December 2, 2008
• After the comment thread to a fascinating post at Feministe about female bodybuilders blew up into a melee of “I don’t think these [...]

  Quick hit: Bodybuilding and body-shaming

  December 1, 2008