Well, bah. This is hardly the sort of thing to devote a post to. It belongs in some second-tier WordPress tab labeled “Things Muttered by A Sarah In An Offhand Way While Looking At The Floor, Immediately Before She Offers Pastries In Her Compulsive Approval-Seeking Way.” Oh well. Here’s what I’ve realized, folks: I’m a … Continue reading »
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Friday Semi-Fluff: Letters to Santa
Ohferbleepssake. This Christmas, the Pennsylvania Medical Society is asking children to ease up on the milk and cookies for Santa Claus. That way, his ample waistline won’t be further widened by the 787.5 million calories he would otherwise consume in that state alone. No, see, I get that large chunks of this are written with … Continue reading »
My Heart Aches – ACHES! – For Men Who Act Like Douchebags
Yaaaaaaaaaaaawn. This is almost, but not quite, so weary-eyeroll-inducing that it’s not worth the effort of typing it all out. (And the “almost” caveat is due entirely to my gleeful anticipation of the snarky Shapeling comments to follow.) So first, Salon’s Mary Elizabeth Williams writes this about an ad campaign to designed to get British … Continue reading »
I Can Be Reasoned With
I’ve been thinking about Stupak, and compromises, and patriarchal religious groups inserting themselves into the legislative process. I’d like to propose an alternative compromise to Stupak and the others currently in the legislative mix. No, it’s not perfect; but I think it speaks to the perceived needs of some of the anti-choice power brokers in … Continue reading »
Friday Fluff: Longfellow Edition
Listen, my children. You already know Of Paul Revere’s midnight ride, and so I won’t rehash how, “in Seventy-five…” For hardly a U.S. child alive Has escaped being quizzed on the day and year. But in school or in scouts or in all your youth, Or in history texts, do you recall learning Who rode … Continue reading »
‘Nuther Quick Hit: Nate Silver Temporarily Suspends Mathematical Rigor
During the presidential campaign I checked www.fivethirtyeight.com, like, several times a day. As one whose gifts lie not with the maths* I really appreciated his analysis, and the mounting sense of excitement I got that Indiana might go blue. Yet even Nate Silver suspends his just-the-numbers-ma’am approach when it comes to obesity. Here he suggests … Continue reading »
Friday Fluff: Cheaper Than A Palatial Spa
Hey! Y’all! [lowers voice to a conspiratorial whisper] Guess what I’m doing RIGHT NOW. [chuckles furtively] Dude, I’m staying up half the night with my two awake kids, one of whom is VOMITING BILE! Because a nasty, nasty stomach virus has been making the rounds in our house. (I lost six pounds in three days … Continue reading »
Quick appeal: Stories of weight discrimination and health care
This thread contained a number of stories of Shapelings’ experiences of discrimination from doctors – including stories of patients being directly and concretely physically harmed by a doctor’s failure to diagnose something properly due to weight bias. Okay, so I feel like what I’m about to say is some kind of thick purée of every … Continue reading »
The Vision Chart Effect
So here’s a blurb on a new study, courtesy of Washington Post’s “The Checkup.” It opens: Women, want to enjoy good health in your golden years? Ooh! I know this one! [thinks] YES. Lose weight. Now. Oh. Wow, that’s… um, directive. Not one to slice the bologna too thin, eh, WaPo? Attention ALL WOMEN! What? … Continue reading »
Appeal: Examples of progressive religious people behaving badly (or goodly)
Shapelings, in a few weeks I’ll be giving a public lecture at my new academic institution. In the lecture I plan on doing a theologically-inflected Fat Acceptance 101. Or perhaps it will be a Theology of Embodiment 101 with a big helping of Fat Acceptance. I don’t know, because I haven’t written it yet. But … Continue reading »
