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	<title>Kate Harding&#039;s Shapely Prose &#187; You&#8217;ve Got to Be Kidding Me</title>
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		<title>Sartorial justice</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/10/19/sartorial-justice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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Hey all, remember back in July when Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan mean-girled soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor for not dressing femme enough? It turns out those &#8220;1980s lady power broker&#8221; suits were chosen for her by &#8220;government officials.&#8221;
There is not enough desk for my forehead right now.
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		<title>Quick hit: Fat Barbie</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/10/13/quick-hit-fat-barbie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Machine</dc:creator>
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No, not that fat Barbie, sadly. According to WWD, shoe designer Christian Louboutin, who recently designed some high fashion Barbies, had to &#8220;reshape&#8221; the dolls because “He found her ankles were too fat” (according to a spokesperson).
I&#8217;ll let you sit with that one a minute.
*wanders off, pours some booze, comes back*
Barbie&#8217;s ankles are too fat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&blog=920046&post=3793&subd=kateharding&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SP Round Table: Fat baby denied health insurance</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/10/12/sp-round-table-fat-baby-denied-health-insurance/</link>
		<comments>http://kateharding.net/2009/10/12/sp-round-table-fat-baby-denied-health-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Machine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. Super fun quote from the article:
By the numbers, Alex is in the 99th percentile for height and weight for babies his age. Insurers don&#8217;t take babies above the 95th [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&blog=920046&post=3784&subd=kateharding&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Polanski, Polanski, Polanski</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/10/02/polanski-polanski-polanski/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Harding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That has been my entire week. Since my first post about it here got a lot of responses, I figured I&#8217;d share everything I&#8217;ve been doing on it in one place. (Trigger warnings on pretty much all of it.)
But before I get to that incredibly depressing shit, please go watch Chris Rock going off on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&blog=920046&post=3742&subd=kateharding&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Once More With Feeling: We Already Know We&#8217;re Fat</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/09/27/once-more-with-feeling-we-already-know-were-fat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zuzu sent me a link to the latest Schott&#8217;s Vocab post at the NYT, this one examining the phrase &#8220;fat gap.&#8221; Ben Schott points out that the phrase &#8220;has also been used to describe disproportionately high obesity rates among the poor, and the differing levels of obesity in different ethnic groups in Washington D.C.,&#8221; but here, he&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&blog=920046&post=3672&subd=kateharding&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let me fix that for you, E. Jean</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/08/21/let-me-fix-that-for-you-e-jean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
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So I just ended up on Elle magazine&#8217;s website, in search of an interview with Lorrie Moore. Along the way, I stumbled onto E. Jean&#8217;s advice column, wherein she answers the age-old question: &#8220;What do I do now that my spouse has gotten fat and I&#8217;m no longer attracted to hir?&#8221;
Every advice columnist gets it. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&blog=920046&post=3501&subd=kateharding&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whom we talk to when we talk about fat</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/08/19/whom-we-talk-to-when-we-talk-about-fat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Harding</dc:creator>
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I would really love to ignore PETA, just in general, and their latest fat-hating billboard in particular.

But there&#8217;s something about this one I haven&#8217;t yet seen addressed in the various denunciations of it*: the language. Specifically, that the &#8220;lose the blubber&#8221; bit is talking to fat people, but the &#8220;SAVE THE WHALES&#8221; bit is talking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&blog=920046&post=3488&subd=kateharding&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t be this boring, ever</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/08/11/dont-be-this-boring-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Machine</dc:creator>
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Actual sentence appearing on cnn.com today as a caption to a photo:
Jessica Ordona (in white) disliked the fit of her jeans, so she signed up for a class she says addressed the issue.
Dear inhabitants of planet Earth: If you need a special class to make you like the fit of your jeans, YOU ARE WEARING THE [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&blog=920046&post=3461&subd=kateharding&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Douchehound of the Day: Satoshi Kanazawa</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/08/06/douchehound-of-the-day-satoshi-kanazawa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Harding</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m a little late to this one, but in case anyone missed evolutionary psychologist (really, need I say more?) Satoshi Kanazawa&#8217;s devastating takedown of a certain kind of feminist &#8212; to wit, the straw kind &#8211; at Psychology Today, let me tell you two things about it.
1) The title is &#8220;Why Modern Feminism is Illogical, Unnecessary, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&blog=920046&post=3447&subd=kateharding&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, and your book sucks, too</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2009/07/29/oh-and-your-book-sucks-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sweet Machine</dc:creator>
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Dear Freakonomics Dudes,
This:
The prevalence of obesity rose 37 percent between 1998 and 2006, and medical costs climbed to about 9.1 percent of all U.S. medical costs, the researchers said.
in addition to being a syntactic nightmare, does not equal this:
9.1 percent of all health-care costs are the result of eating and drinking too much
(Emphasis added.)
Y&#8217;all like to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&blog=920046&post=3422&subd=kateharding&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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