Not too long ago I was having one of those diet-think days where my inner monologue was right out of a women’s magazine. Among the thoughts I caught myself thinking was this (you’ll find it familiar, I’m betting): “If I only ate a couple hundred fewer calories a day, I bet I could lose [...]
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This morning’s paper had a wire story about a study showing that kids get less exercise as they get older. Obviously it’s full of the nonsense you’ve come to expect; the headline I read talked about “lazy” kids, the article says that teenagers are “sluggish.” There’s no mention made of the piles of [...]
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Marina of Big Moves — even if you don’t know Big Moves, and you should, you’ll remember her as the author of “28 Days to a Bikini Mind” — wrote to us today with a request for support. Here’s her email:
Here’s the deal. We’ve been going to the Montreal Fringe Festival for the past [...]
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The following comment has been sitting in the moderation queue for weeks because none of us have felt capable of handling what it does to us emotionally:
im 13 years of age and im fat, obease even im 4″11 and im 12st 7lbs and i HATE it.. ive been thinking about straving myself but then i [...]
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It’s June, which means it’s wedding season, which means that every form of media apparently needs to start featuring All Weddings All The Time. I feel like it’s a little better this year, perhaps because there have been actually newsworthy marriage-related developments. Still, ’tis the season for meaningless wedding-based fluff pieces, and who [...]
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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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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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I would like to wish a very happy blogiversary weekend to the wonderful Miss Conduct, who is not only a consummate advice columnist but also one of the brilliant minds behind the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (which Dan will be joining as soon as I can get his luxuriant hair and his rather [...]
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The other day I got the following request from a lurker named Meredith:
I am taking a sociology class this summer that is looking at personal narratives, and our final project is to interview someone about a topic we would like to do some research about, and I would very much like to interview someone about [...]
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I got on a little graphics kick this weekend because of the new icons (yes, Kate will have one, but it still needs some tweaking). The end result is that there are three new shirts up on the Shapely Prose store, including one that features the new Aunt Fattie graphic (debuting tomorrow) in all [...]
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Notes from the Fatosphere
