fashion

"Say No to Size Zero:" How Judging Thin Women Doesn't Promote Body Acceptance

Lashing out at thin women to tell them they aren’t wanted isn’t the way to address disparities and prejudices in fashion.
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Issues, fashion, modeling, class war, body diversity, fatty fatty two by four, body acceptance, body image

Apr 4, 2013 at 2:30pm | 186 comments

dieting

Diet Didn't Work? TRY AGAIN.

In other words, “Even though diets don’t work, you should keep dieting.”
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Issues, dieting, fat, fatty fatty two by four, this is not how you science

Aug 16, 2012 at 5:00pm | 40 comments

consumer protection

The Price of Fat Hatred

Behind the Lap-Band billboards lies a sinister and sad tale of people exploiting fat hatred and fear of fatness for cash. A lot of it.
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Issues, consumer protection, fat, fat hatred, fatty fatty two by four, medical advertising

Feb 6, 2012 at 9:00am | 107 comments

celebrities

Leave Paula Deen Alone

The thing about being fat is that you turn into public property. You are an object, not a person, and this makes you fair game for being shredded.
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Issues, celebrities, diabetes, fat, fat acceptance, fat shaming, fatty fatty two by four

Jan 18, 2012 at 1:00pm | 0 comments

being a good person

Fat Acceptance and New Year's Resolutions: Hate The Diet, Not The Dieter

I'm on a fat people mailing list and, every new year, there is the same discussion. It's the gleeful discussion of how people's new year's diets are doomed to fail.
Marianne in
Healthy, being a good person, body acceptance, body autonomy, fat acceptance, fatty fatty two by four, hanging out with people who don't agree with you, new years resolutions, paradigm busting

Jan 13, 2012 at 2:00pm | 0 comments