Come on, it wouldn't be xoJane if someone didn't write this one up.
how not to be a dick
fat guys
I like lots of kinds of bodies. Fat dudes are on that list.
Marianne in
Sex,
fat guys,
fat dudes,
fat acceptance,
body acceptance,
variety,
I have a type,
lots of people are attractive
Jun 6, 2013 at 11:00am | 483 comments
fat
I had seen "Mean Girls" and everything, but didn’t actually know that losing weight was going to subject me to jokes that a few months prior I would have thought were directed at me.
health
As you might know, I am fat. I also deserve health care.
Marianne in
Healthy,
health,
healthcare,
fat,
fat acceptance,
doctor's visits,
dcotors,
current events,
haes,
everybody be healthy right now
Aug 28, 2012 at 4:00pm | 355 comments
fat acceptance
Fuck it, y'all -- fat isn't a goddamned swear word.
fatshion
Assailed by lists of obvious advice, shiny happy content with the nutritional value of bubble gum, and cutesy sign-off graphics, I retreated to the grumpy lady corner of the Internet with cookies and the feeling that this wasn’t how fat activism was meant to be.
fat acceptance
Professor Geoffrey Miller has been introduced to the swift sword of Twitter outrage -- but is it really about his fat hate?
Marianne in
Issues,
fat acceptance,
haes,
academia,
fat hate,
twitter,
fucking up on social media,
social experiments
Jun 4, 2013 at 2:00pm | 261 comments
eating
There has got to be a better way to live.
Marianne in
Healthy,
eating,
food,
why is this so damn hard if I need it to stay alive,
haes,
fat acceptance,
eating disorders
May 22, 2013 at 11:00am | 227 comments
fat
The way folks talk, you'd think fat people and skinny people are locked in a battle to the death over the acceptability of bodies and that, Highlander style, in the end there can be only one.
being fat all over the internet
Fat-hating bullies make me teeth-grittingly angry. I think they make this fat news anchor in Wisconsin angry as well.
Marianne in
Issues,
being fat all over the internet,
fat,
fat acceptance,
haes,
broadcast news,
bullies,
bullying
Oct 2, 2012 at 5:00pm | 218 comments
being fat all over the internet
To say stuff like, “Weight gain is grounds for divorce,” is not just to operate under a faulty notion of what marriage is, but of what it is to even be a person existing in the universe.
book clubs
I sat down and made a list of books I could honestly recommend with fat characters. Also, let's pick a book to read for the xoBook Club!
exercise
When you grow up fat, movement is never just for the sake of movement. My backhand didn't matter; my backside was all people cared about.
fat acceptance
The F-word is forbidden in my house.
issues
When a girl who runs a thinspo blog uses your fat body's experience as a reason to starve herself, things just become a little bit clearer.
fat
Using health as a smokescreen allows people to attack fat kids while looking virtuous.
china
"Fat” was the third or fourth word I learned in Chinese, somewhere after “hello,” “thank you” and “I don’t understand.”
being fat all over the internet
It's a special extra terrible feeling to know that not only is your inbox liable to be a minefield of vitriol attacking your very existence, your image is being used to perpetuate racism and other forms of oppression.
fat acceptance
In the greatest depths of my body issues, I refused to sleep with anyone who wasn’t at least somewhat overweight.
fat acceptance
As a psychologist, having a patient say something out loud makes it have an exponential importance than just thinking about it. How about if I am hearing myself insult myself, over and over, day after day?
fat kids
Sending a letter home with a kid who isn't actually fat seems cruel to most people because fat is still positioned as something that it is bad to be. But those letters aren't helping fat kids -- or underweight kids -- either.
ihtm
I bought a scale and was horrified to see that I was up nearly 30 pounds from my lowest. It was the worst sin: regain.
