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Category Archives: Fillyjonk

  • Out of curiosity, and because I’m sure we could all use a break from 500-comment threads in which men drop by to deny or devalue our [...]

    Expecting crickets

    October 8, 2009
  • When a friend of my mom’s asked her about “that thing all women can do, and some men,” it turned out he meant hanging your [...]

    Miss Lucy had Friday Fluff

    October 2, 2009
  • I’m currently reading Jerome K. Jerome’s “Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog),” the bloggiest book of the [...]

    Quote of the day: On fullness

    September 29, 2009
  • Two items of interest for you: First, this A Softer World (applicable to all “I don’t see X” statements, I think). Second, our [...]

    Now with visual aids

    September 8, 2009
  • If you’ve been reading Lesley’s More to Love recaps over at Fatshionista, you already know that the show is allllllll about Fat Pain. [...]

    We Saw The Epidemic, And It Was Us

    September 2, 2009
  • So, you may have noticed that there’s been a bit of a fatsplosion over at Newsweek lately. When Kate Dailey, Newsweek’s [...]

    Fatweek

    August 31, 2009
  • Last week someone asked my husband why there weren’t more women in ham radio and other techy jobs/hobbies, and being a good feminist he [...]

    On Message

    August 10, 2009
  • As you probably also know by now, the Boston Globe’s etiquette columnist Miss Conduct, also known as Robin Abrahams, is a good friend of [...]

    Miss Conduct’s Mind Over Manners: A Very Belated Review

    July 20, 2009
  • As I mentioned the other day, this Talk of the Town column about Paul Giamatti is easily the best example of the genre I have ever read. People [...]

    Friday Fluff: A crazy box of crabs

    July 17, 2009
  • A respected science writer of my acquaintance, who is not part of the fat acceptance movement but has been writing for a long time about the [...]

    The New Yorker presents: bizarro fat acceptance!

    July 15, 2009

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