Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose

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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So I basically assume that most Shapelings also read Shakesville, since we link there a lot and of course our Kate is a star Shaker… but just in case you don’t, allow me to direct your attention to Liss’s righteous protest against the trend of celebrity pregnancy spotting.
And of course girls growing up in a [...]

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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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Re: “Obesity blamed for world’s ills”: I came home from New York this weekend to find that my boyfriend had been arguing with people on Slashdot all day about whether fat people were really causing global warming. When I asked him about it, he went off on a delightful rant about how if you [...]

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See previous body image PostSecrets. From today:

Let’s change “what normal girls do.”

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Since we’ve been talking a lot about bias and language recently, I thought you Shapelings might appreciate (read: fume over) this NYT article, which follows in the grand NYT traditions of 1) writing about young people as though they are another species, and 2) forgetting that our actual species has female members. The article itself [...]

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Shapelings might be interested in this NYT piece called “Life as a Tall Girl,” about having a female body that is considered unacceptably big on the vertical axis. It’s written by a college student, and some of it, I imagine, will sound familiar to many of us:
Everywhere I go people stare at me. At the [...]

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My internets friend Stitchtowhere recently wrote an excellent screed about the way we pathologize weight in our language. Outside of the FA movement, of course, fat is overwhelmingly referred to as a “weight problem,” a “weight issue, “struggles with one’s weight,” and the implications pissed her off:
Dear Speakers of the (MOSTLY FATPHOBIC) English Language,
I [...]

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I’m sort of having a Stupor Tuesday today, but with two thirds of today’s blog posts centering around the idea that some people on the internet are total fucksticks, I thought I’d throw in a little link roundup to offer some cheerier fare.

Lindsay at BABble, who is our big hero of the moment, wrote a [...]

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Frequent commenter (and author in her own right) Alexandra Erin has been cracking you up with her mordant wit for a while now. But she has absolutely fucking outdone herself with the new website for The Health Institute for Nutrition, a project to which I dearly hope she will let me contribute even though [...]

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