Category: Anti-fat bigotry
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Things I Would Like To Not Care About
27 comments on Things I Would Like To Not Care AboutI would like to not worry about: Whether a medical professional will consider my symptoms before making a diagnosis. Whether a job interviewer will not hire me because I’m fat. Whether the friend talking about her diet is doing so as a way of passive-aggressively commenting on my body size, eating habits, or perceived dieting status. Whether I will be seen as an equal partner in my…
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Quote of the Day: Healthcare Providers and Expectations
From an article on healthcare providers stigmatizing fat patients: Healthcare providers also need to readjust their expectations. Getting individuals who are obese down to a normal weight isn’t realistic: Research shows that most people can’t expect to lose more than 10% of their body weight and, more important, to maintain the weight loss over time. Instead of viewing that as a treatment failure and growing discouraged with…
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Fat Bingo: Fat and Fit Article
Using the article “Fat but fit? Big gray area confounds scientists“. “Is it possible to be fat and fit? Perhaps, researchers say, but losing weight may make you even better off.” Message: Don’t get your hopes up, fatty, exercise and a healthy diet are only worthwhile if you lose weight—if your weight is stable you might as well skip the gym. “No excuse to pack on pounds”…
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Things to Read
From Marianne Kirby at The Rotund: FA represents a long chain of people coming to the realization that the diet roller coaster is, to mix my metaphors, a sucker bet. The diet industry – when you get down to the bare, capitalist bones of it – has quite a lot of profit to be made from making people, especially women, feel awful about their bodies and their…
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A Year or Two Ago…
Just over a year ago we were remembering the deaths of people who were “too fat” to evacuate after Katrina. Later that week I wrote a post on buying plane tickets that still gets a number of hits. Two years ago I wrote one of this blog’s most-googled/viewed posts. (Why “fat woman sex” is one of the perennials of the search terms is not for me to answer.) I…
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We’re All Mad Here (and it’s okay!)
If I leave my grin behind, remind me that we’re all mad here and it’s okay! This line is from SJ Tucker‘s song Cheshire Kitten, from her new album Mischief. I first heard the song … a year ago? 18 months? SJ sang it at a concert I attended. I’ve loved “we’re all mad here / and it’s okay!” since then. To me, “we’re all mad here…
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Death, not Evacuation
This is painful. I am grateful that my ARNP found my vitamin deficiencies and that I can treat them, for the surgeries and drugs that have given family members longer lives. But right now I feel I could never leave anyone I loved alone in a hospital.
Living ~400lbs 