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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Yes, folks, it’s even more on hair! Shapeling Heather Bailey recently sent us the story of her latest haircut, and it was too good not to post. –Kate
My hairstylist for the last three years has been a guy who’s a bit of a wunderkind stylist in this town, awesome with the shears. The problem [...]

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A pattern I’ve noticed with trolls, snarky linkers, and even friendly dissenters who take issue with our “Don’t You Realize Fat Is Unhealthy?” post is that some people really, really don’t like the following statement:
Diets don’t work. No, really, not even if you don’t call them diets. If you want to tell me about how [...]

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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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Dearest Aunt Fattie,
I was recently excited to stumble across an online dating site which includes a body shape descriptor - I prefer larger guys and want both my own size and my preference in men to be stated up front. Not long after signing up, I found a cute, sweet-seeming fat dude who shared [...]

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I have a tattoo appointment tonight, after putting it off for about two years. This is pretty much how I operate with ink; I get an idea in my head, I sit on it forever, and then I suddenly get a bug up my butt to get it done RIGHT RIGHT NOW. (”Right [...]

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Dear Aunt Fattie;
I have a fat activism conundrum. I am (was?) a thin fat-acceptance ally, and a survivor of anorexia. Three weeks ago I gave birth to a gorgeous baby girl. I am euphoric over my baby, and determined to help her grow up to love her body.
Here is the thing, though [...]

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You are all probably familiar with Marina Wolf Ahmad, founder of Big Moves, who comments here as bigmovesbabe. Marina knows all about getting fatties to embrace, show off, and work with their bodies, and to that end, she sent us this delightful parody of women’s magazine “get a bikini body” articles. It’s a [...]

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I had my first belly dance performance last weekend. Let me tell you, nothing tests your body-positivity more than having your belly out on stage alongside 14 identically-dressed women, all of whom are smaller than you. I wanted to come through that with flying colors and then post right afterwards about how size [...]

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Dear Aunt Fattie,

I’m in a quandary. I’m a thirty-something woman, intelligent, fun, fat-accepting, and I have lots of good friends. However, I’ve never been on a date (I’ve only been asked a couple of times in my life, by weird strangers, and that was when I weighed less, as a result of illness). I’m pretty [...]

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