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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Don’t get excited. They’re shameful, but they’re not really that interesting. They do, however, lead to a point. Sorta.
Shameful Confession #1: Sometimes, I find myself craving a bit of reality TV. I used to be hooked on about five reality TV shows at a time, but eventually that wore off, in part because I just [...]
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So, we haven’t touched Wall-E around here so far because others have handled it ably, Pixar-loving* trolls are a pain in the ass, and as far as I know, none of us have seen it. But I’ve got to send some love out to Daniel Engber for this Slate article on exactly why the “easy [...]
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So, the headline of this AP article is okay: “Europe plans free fruit, veggies for school kids.” Nothing wrong with that — in fact, I think it’s a swell idea. But you do know what’s coming next, right?
An estimated 22 million children in the 27-nation bloc of nearly 500 million people are overweight because of [...]
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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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Australian reader Kira writes:
Finally we beat the Americans at something. Australia is the world’s fattest nation.
I’m a general lurker on your blog, but I saw this on the telly tonight and just had to let you know that America can breathe a little easier tomorrow, knowing that they are no longer the fattest nation on earth.
We’re [...]
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So a couple of readers have sent me links to articles about a recent episode of this BBC show, Mary, Queen of Shops, in which host Mary Portas goes to visit struggling shop owners to tell them why their businesses are tanking.
The other night, the subject was a plus-size boutique — like LeeLee’s Valise or [...]
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This started as a comment in response to Lesley’s open letter to Carnie Wilson (in response to Wilson’s appearance on Tyra, in which the woman who broadcast her gastric bypass surgery on the internet complains that people now pay too much attention to her weight), but it got so long, I decided to make it [...]
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Liz Henry at Body Impolitic thinks it’s a surprisingly body-positive movie. Liss is unconvinced.
Not having seen any part of it other than the dumpling battle, I’m inclined to go with Liss, though I might still go see it out of curiosity. What do you think, Shapelings? Have you seen it? Do you want to? Is [...]
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While Kate, FJ, and I freak out about our busy lives, head to Shakesville and check out the merciless photoshopping of the normally-incredibly-hot Clive Owen. (And check out the rest of Liss’s Impossibly Beautiful series, if you haven’t already.)
We’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: spreading self-loathing — to men, thin people, or whoever [...]
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Notes from the Fatosphere
