• The wonderful Jenna Sauers of Jezebel posted recently on PETA’s attempts to be edgy and arresting in their support of animals at the [...]

  Meat and metaphors

  January 24, 2010
• I hate this ad. I stood waiting for a bus the other day while another bus idled in front of me. It had this ad on the side, bigger than life. I [...]

  In which I am defeated by a billboard

  January 17, 2010
• I would really love to ignore PETA, just in general, and their latest fat-hating billboard in particular. But there’s something about this [...]

  Whom we talk to when we talk about fat

  August 19, 2009
• Tari just Twittered about this, and I see Rachel’s already covered it in-depth. I am giddy. Updated guidelines on ad endorsements and [...]

  The End of ‘Results Not Typical’?

  March 26, 2009

• There are about a gazillion things we’ve missed in the last week, so it’s round-up time. First, though, I have a favor to ask of [...]

  Read ‘Em

  March 16, 2009
• Which Fat Barbie image do you think is more likely to have a positive effect on children’s health? This one (via Jezebel), with the tag [...]

  Pop Quiz

  February 17, 2009
• Andy Wright at Mother Jones nails everything wrong with Mars’s new candy bars for the lady market so perfectly, I can’t even add [...]

  WTF of the day: Fling candy bars

  February 15, 2009
• 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. [...]

  A Whole New Kind of Headless Fatty

  November 18, 2008

• I have no words.

  Open for Discussion: “Obesity Is Suicide”

  April 9, 2008
• On a lighter note, please enjoy this Vintage ad for Lane Bryant’s kids’ (?) line.

  Free for Chubbies

  March 25, 2008