Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose

Harriet points out that Parade magazine has a poll up on the age-old question of whether fat people should be required to buy two airline seats. Right now, they’ve got 82% yes votes, and only 18% no. Let’s see if the Fatosphere can change that, shall we?

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Dear Aunt Fattie,

Last summer one of my best friends (we’ll call her K) spent the day at the beach with another group of girls we hang out with. I was unable to go, but would normally have been there. That day they had a great time hanging out, drinking Bloody Marys. [...]

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Founder Stacy Bias emailed us yesterday to alert us to the launch of her new website, The Fat Experience Project, which The Rotund has already rhapsodically reviewed. From Stacy’s email:
The goal of the Fat Experience Project is to map the global experience of fat in a way that is human, has a face, a [...]

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Hey, there might be more than one Em out there now, but I’m looking for the one who left this comment several months ago:

Back when I first saw pictures of you, in your personal history entry, I felt so cheated and disappointed. “So that’s her? The poster child of fat bloggers? Just another thin girl [...]

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Dear Barbara Ehrenreich,
This is satire.
This is just lazy.
See, one of them exposes and mocks society by catching the reader up in appealing rhetoric and then twisting the tourniquet tighter and tighter until she can’t breathe.
The other one consists mainly of appropriation and regurgitation of other people’s tired cracks about fat and overconsumption. You know, [...]

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We haven’t talked a whole lot about crafting and fat in the past, but I know we have some crafty Shapelings out there! (Has anyone knit or crocheted an Adipose cell yet?) I’m an obsessive knitter myself (though the level of obsession ratchets up and down depending on my school schedule), and I’ve been delighted [...]

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Hey, Shapelings in DC, Baltimore, and environs, please contact me! Shapeling Kate217 is setting up a meetup next month, and I don’t want to put the details right on the site, so I need the contact info of anyone who’s interested. (Then I will probably pass you off to Kate217, who is about [...]

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Hi Aunt Fattie –
So I’m a late-twenty-something lady who is dating another twenty-something lady. I am a curvy sort of lady who spent years upon years hating myself and censoring myself and focusing on other people’s (perceived) dislike of my body, etc., went through much disordered eating, and am just finally starting to come [...]

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The Fat Rant 3 thread is dying down now, so I want to highlight a comment Deborah Lipp just made toward the end of it, and my response.
Deborah:
It’s an awesome video, but I don’t love what she said to the kids. She said (close paraphrase) “I’m fat. People come in all different sizes.” And while [...]

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Friend of Shapely Prose and superstar-of-the-near-future Joy Nash has a new Fat Rant video out! And it is completely fabulous. Behold!

Feel free to use this thread both to lavish praise on Joy (or to share constructive criticism) and to list your favorite comebacks.

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