Category: Anti-fat bigotry
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Things to Read
No comments on Things to ReadFree speech means that yes, you get to say anything you want (with some legal limits regarding libel and slander laws, advocating harm of another person or threatening someone with death or bodily harm, blackmail, all that), but free speech also means that other people get to say what they want, too, whether you like […]
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Medical Things
Those following along on twitter know that I went to the Urgent Care near work to deal with a UTI. This, of course, brought up the “Seeing the doctor issues”. Fortunately the actual appointment went well, with no weight fight. Then it was off to the pharmacy. The nice part was that the UTI pain […]
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Fat Doesn’t Require Apology
You may have seen the video where WKBT anchor Jennifer Livingston responds to a viewer complaint about her weight. In her response, Livingston thanks those who have come to her support. She encourages people to speak against bullying and to think about what they say in front of kids. What she does not say? Jennifer […]
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O-Word For The “Win”
Ever notice how a news story will use “obesity” even when that’s not really the point? Example: A study looking for correlations between cognitive decline and metabolic syndrome, explicitly calling out fat. Headline? “Obesity ‘Bad for Brain’ by Hastening Cognitive Decline“. At least one earlier study tied metabolic syndrome with cognitive decline, but didn’t explicitly called […]
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Some Things To Read
The Fat Nutritionist has an excellent, and sadly useful, post titled “A little 101 – I get to exist.” It is okay to be fat, because fat people already exist. Fat people have existed for a very, very long time. Even if all of us tried, not all of us would become permanently thin. Fat people exist. We […]
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What Does It Say That This Is News?
The truth is, getting up and moving is good even if you’re thin. Seriously, this was included in a Sunday magazine feature on exercise. Specifically: I’m perfectly fine the way I am, thank you. I’m not even overweight. The truth is, getting up and moving is good even if you’re thin. It turns out being […]
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Cool Video on Weight Bigotry
To quote SikaResult in the video: “I am healthy, but not thin.” Note the images she chooses and how most of the video shows her exercising.
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Things to Read
The first thing that makes me wonder about the supposed “skill gap” is that, when pressed for more evidence, roughly 10% of employers admit that the problem is really that the candidates they want won’t accept the positions at the wage level being offered. That’s not a skill shortage, it’s simply being unwilling to pay […]
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Things to read
From Jezebel’s Work-Life Balance Isn’t Just for Moms: The basic point of all of this is that whether you have kids, have a partner but no kids, or are living alone, working too much sucks. It’s no way to live, and we’re not dummies. So at some point, most of us realize that we’d rather do […]
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OBESITY NIGHTMARE….
…or rather, a site is starting to show fat people’s reaction to America’s (drumroll…fanfare…lights…) Obesity Nightmare It started with a Tumblr post, and has continued with photos from Brian (at Red No 3) and Turn It Over. Why? Because we do not exist to be the government’s or the healthcare industry’s nightmare. We are people. We […]
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Americans Are Fatter Than They Think!
I tweeted this, but I’m just not sure how to fully express the snark this deserves, so I thought y’all might want to give it a try. See, a study has discovered that…drumroll…BMI can be inaccurate!!!! Really!!! You might be fat and not know it!!! (eeek!) And since most people who are “overweight or obese” aren’t […]
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A few common fallacies
From a poster going around Tumblr. Some of the examples have been edited a bit to suit myself. A fallacy is any defect in reasoning which destroys an argument’s validity. 1) Ad Hominem. Latin term meaning “against the man.” It is discrediting the opponent instead of his or her argument. For example: “You’re fat, therefore […]
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Doctors, Doctors, Doctors
One of the things I expected in dealing with my father’s medical odyssey was “weight talks” or fat shaming — not of him, but of me. You know, the “Well, you should take care of yourself by being thin” talk. It actually hasn’t happened. I think it’s partly because the patient weighs 175lbs and partly that […]
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Junk Food In Schools Doesn’t Correlate To Fat
Remember how banning junk food in schools was supposed to make fat kids thin? Guess what? No, it doesn’t. At least not according to “Competitive Food Sales in Schools and Childhood Obesity: A Longitudinal Study” in Sociology of Education (January 2012). But of course we should’ve thought it would, right? It’s not like “Snack food intake does not […]
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Not News
The website Fark makes fun of news stories that are not, actually, news. Example: Students Discover Desks Have More Germs Than Toilets Why isn’t it news? Well, it’s a common story that pops up once a year or two, and relies on people not thinking about which is more likely to get janitorial attention. Today […]
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For All The Parents Out There…
Think about how you will react if your child is fat. Over time, if you’re making it clear that you don’t want a fat son or daughter, well, your son or daughter may not be able to stop being fat. But your son or daughter can eventually choose to stop being your son or daughter. […]
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