‘Cause I am not up to a more substantial post… “Noted woman physician” on why women shouldn’t have careers. It’s the Caitlin Flanagan of 1947. About that #twowholecakes thing…. (And speaking of cakes, if you missed Fat Satan, you must check that out, too.) McDonald’s Eats A Super-Sized Order Of Its Own Words (via Womanist Musings) Oh, … Continue reading »
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Quickly: The Amazon Thing
I wrote about AmazonFail 2009 over at Broadsheet this morning, so if you’ve been dying to discuss it here, check that out and come back. One thing I didn’t get to in that post (which got out-of-hand long very quickly) was this post at After Ellen, in which Sarah Warn reminds us that the problem … Continue reading »
Weekend Open Thread
Sorry about the light posting this week, but FJ and SM have already offered their explanations, and mine is that my mother-in-law was in town and I was sick. (Comment on that combo from my Facebook page: “In a sitcom, this would be where you decide to repaint the bathroom, which goes horribly awry in … Continue reading »
Help a fellow Shapeling: Research edition
Hey all, check out Lonie McMichael’s call for participants in some fat-friendly research she’s doing.
I am in love
With 88-year-old Gladys from Austin, TX. The video is longish, but so worth watching. The internet has not gotten this many genuine LOLs out of me in a long damned time. Oh, and I got it from Shakesville, but don’t click over there until you’ve watched it yourself, if you can, because Liss gives away … Continue reading »
Happy birthday, Kate!
It’s our fearless leader’s birthday! Please join me in wishing her the awesomest birthday yet, even if it’s the coldest damn day of the year.
Reverse resolutions
I’m not a fan of the New Year’s resolution phenomenon. I do think it’s got some good or at least non-insidious applications — I’m in favor of periodic reevaluation of whether you like your life and how you might like it better, and I’m in favor of small achievable goals (a friend vowed, for instance, … Continue reading »
Surprising paths to Shapely Prose
WordPress lets us see what Google searches lead the most people here each day. Most of the time these are variations on or misspellings of “kate harding,” “shapely prose” (we get rather a lot of “shapley prose” searches), “bmi project,” and the like. Every now and then there’s something… different, like today: why do women … Continue reading »
Happy New Year!
From the classiest blogger you know.
Open Thread
Talk amongst yourselves. Self-linking and puppy pictures always welcome.
