Comments on: State of the Prose

By: Roberta Lipp

Roberta Lipp — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:54:29 +0000

I love that I just read this. I happened to be over here looking for another post from awhile back that I only saw because someone had shared it on facebook (and okay, that someone might have been you). I am a painfully slow reader and also don’t always keep up with my own blog, and it’s been months since I’ve even looked at my bloglines. I just stopped.

I was here right around the beginning. And I watched it take off. And then my sister and I started our thing, and you watched that take off–all us getting all popular and shit.

And I SO get the moves you are making now, and I applaud.

You and this blog changed my life, Kate. Just so you know.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:03:31 +0000

Oooooh, lemurs! Cool! My son used to love Zoobamafoo!

I stumbled across this blog about a year ago, linking from I don’t know where. I was drawn in by the wit, the sparkling writing, and the intelligence and compassion (disguised by snark) expressed in the posts.

I’m a middle-aged man, and body image has never been an issue for me. So this blog, I would suggest, already is about more than any specific topic.

Sure, this site primarily addresses fat acceptance and body image, 75% more or less of the time. I find consistently, though, is that I’m here reading about what it means and what it takes to be human.

Have you ever noticed what big eyes lemurs have? I hear it’s cuz they’re nocturnal.

By: NatureGrrrl

NatureGrrrl — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:11:20 +0000

Kate, FJ, SM, A Sarah and Snarky,

I wanted to share something with all of you… My best friend sent me this quote the other day and it just reminded me of shapely prose and it was so beautiful that I wanted to send it your way.

“There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.”~Anthony Rapp

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. It really hit my heart strings and I thought how fitting it was to share with you.

Thank you for sharing your writing with us..in any form it takes….and most of all, thank you all for fearlessly being yourselves!

:) NatureGrrrl

By: jenn

jenn — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:56:07 +0000

I came for the feminism, was transformed by the FA, and stayed for the monsters.

By: tigtog

tigtog — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:44:59 +0000

This post has clarified some of my own muddled thinking about my blogging in this last year. I started to get a whole heap of criticism about what others thought I should be doing and I ended up just withdrawing quite a lot (I also had a depression meltdown this winter, which didn’t help). This has been a real education in drawing boundaries and standing up for oneself. I need to try that more right from the start instead of stewing in resentment and then getting stroppy.

By: Livia_Augusta

Livia_Augusta — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:04:34 +0000

Ladies, your posts are fabulous – whether they’re directly related to feminism and FA or not. I only ask that you keep the links to other places you’re writing updated her on Shapely Prose.

Thanks, y’all.

By: paintmonkey

paintmonkey — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:32:57 +0000

Can we write about fat lemurs?

By: Grafton

Grafton — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:51:46 +0000

I would probably like licorice colored with molasses.

I prefer a brand called “Let’s Do Organic” though the name is kind of embarrassing.

By: living400lbs

living400lbs — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:41:42 +0000

“Spheres don’t really have fronts.”

“I’m not a box. I don’t have sides. This is me. One side fits all.”
— Carrie Fisher

By: i-geek

i-geek — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:05:06 +0000

How on Earth do Americans color black licorice if it leaves an aftertaste? Here they just use medicinal charcoal or molasses.

Sather Candy black jelly beans list “caramel color, blue 2 lake, yellow 6 lake, red 40 lake.” That’s the only one for which I’ve been easily able to find ingredients. I suspect I would probably like licorice colored with molasses.