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I just sent the following comment to spam:
I wish you huge obese would stop complaining and talking.
(Linkage mine.)
Because it’s not good enough that you can, you know, just not read our fucking blog. We need to actually become silent.
As usual, we don’t douchehound people because they piss us off; what pisses us off is otherwise [...]
Filed under: Fat, Feminism, Fillyjonk, Trolls | 250 Comments »
These are cracking me up. Eventually, I’ll get tired of posting them, but not yet.
And you know, if I can get serious for a minute, here’s why I turn this shit into posts sometimes. An old friend of mine, who’s never seemed quite on board with the it’s-okay-to-be-fat stuff but tolerates it because she’s known [...]
Filed under: Trolls | 251 Comments »
You’re gonna want to check out the comments policy before you try to join the conversation. Short version: I don’t publish comments from people who are promoting weight loss, insulting me, or insulting fat people in general. Don’t waste your time.
If you’re interested in more of my thoughts on United’s policy, you can go here [...]
Filed under: Fat, Media, Trolls, You've Got to Be Kidding Me | 77 Comments »
We frequently get commenters who stop in to tell us that they lost weight and kept it off for more than five years, which in their opinion utterly disproves the claim that 95 percent of diets do not result in permanent weight loss. This is probably because when they use figures like “95 percent,” they [...]
Filed under: Dieting/WLS, Fat, Fillyjonk, Trolls | 199 Comments »
Today’s troll wisdom:
How many cavemen were fat? Think about it.
Seriously, y’all! THINK ABOUT IT.
Filed under: Sweet Machine, Trolls | 134 Comments »
We haven’t had a good douchehounding in a while, because trolls get real boring real fast — they’re rarely worth the effort. (Pointing and laughing takes a lot of muscle power, and everyone knows fatties hate exercise!) But the three of us are having a grand time kicking this one around, and we thought we’d [...]
Filed under: Fat, Feminism, Fillyjonk, Trolls | 188 Comments »
… also known as today’s Douchehound of the Day! I’m not even touching this one, just throwing it out here for y’all to bat around. Mr. George P. Burdell writes:
Why do fat people always assume that people are making fun of their weight? I personally dislike most fat people for their lack of will power [...]
Filed under: Trolls | 87 Comments »
We’ve got a fairly desperate concern troll in the mod queue today; he’s left comments on three different posts in the last hour AND sent an email to Kate about how we are ruining feminism, which is a crock of man-hating shit anyway. Needless to say, he’s banned (thanks for playing, Richard! Feel free to [...]
Filed under: Feminism, Sweet Machine, Trolls, You've Got to Be Kidding Me | 626 Comments »
Since it’s been shooting trolls in a barrel week, I couldn’t resist sharing this gem from the moderation queue:
I don’t believe that anyone *chooses* to be a large size, but I feel that we all have a choice in whether or not we let ourselves get there.
You don’t choose to be fat! You just choose [...]
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Kate will be on a panel about body image at this year's BlogHer conference on Friday, July 24, at 1:15 p.m.
Stay tuned for a college tour in the fall and maybe some stuff in between.
Notes from the Fatosphere
Welcome, Salon readers!
Regular readers: my essay from Feed Me! Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight and Body Image, edited by Harriet Brown, is on the front page (eeee!) of Salon today. Check it out!
Visitors from Salon: Welcome! Well, most of you, anyway. Please note that the comments policy here is a whoooole lot stricter than Salon’s, and [...]
Filed under: Announcements, Commentariat, Fat, Health at Every Size, Trolls, Writing | 176 Comments »