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Category Archives: You’ve Got to Be Kidding Me

  • Friend of Shapely Prose Elysia (who writes the blog Born That Way) is an evolutionary biologist, and she had some choice words for the latest [...]

    Guest Blogger Elysia: Evo Psych and Icky Girls

    June 9, 2010
  • Dear [name redacted]: I get it. Discussing the fabulous ordinary whiteness of being as portrayed in Stillman films such as Last Days of Disco and [...]

    That Lump in Your Pants is Not My Sexual Education Opportunity

    May 7, 2010
  • It’s hardly a well-kept secret that journalists can make an interviewee sound like she said pretty much anything. Those of us who are asked [...]

    CNN Makes Jaclyn Friedman Sound Like a Victim-Blamer! Again!

    April 24, 2010
  • You know Spring is truly on its way when media outlets pick up every story matching the keyword, “Dating”. The latest being so-called [...]

    Zombie Playa Revisited

    April 15, 2010
  • According to the Vancouver Sun, there’s a new way to torture yourself through dieting. Literally: The medical procedure involves stitching [...]

    Gobsmacked

    February 25, 2010
  • So, a famous person has finally been fucked by an airline’s fat policy. Director Kevin Smith got booted off a Southwest plane tonight, [...]

    Kevin Smith Kicked off Southwest Flight for Being Fat

    February 14, 2010
  • Hey all, remember back in July when Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan mean-girled soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor for not [...]

    Sartorial justice

    October 19, 2009
  • No, not that fat Barbie, sadly. According to WWD, shoe designer Christian Louboutin, who recently designed some high fashion Barbies, had to [...]

    Quick hit: Fat Barbie

    October 13, 2009
  • Kate started us off by pointing to this horrifying story about a 4-month-old baby in Colorado who was denied health insurance for being too fat. [...]

    SP Round Table: Fat baby denied health insurance

    October 12, 2009
  • That has been my entire week. Since my first post about it here got a lot of responses, I figured I’d share everything I’ve been [...]

    Polanski, Polanski, Polanski

    October 2, 2009

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