Category: OtherBlogs
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Ban Fat Marriage?
14 comments on Ban Fat Marriage?Yes, I know that Dan Savage’s screed on banning fat marriage is trying to illustrate the point that gay marriage bans are ludicrous. Fellow Stranger writer Lindy West has already responded with a solid “why fat hate doesn’t work” aimed at those who don’t want to get it, and I don’t disagree with it. However. I do […]
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Things to Read
This is kind of a mishmash ;) If you’ve seen comments about “dickwolves” and PAX and wondered what it was about, JetWolf has a nice summary. Author Seanan McGuire addressed why fixing the US healthcare system is so terribly, terribly important this week. Seanan has discussed why she needs health insurance here and here. Seanan’s new […]
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On Decoupling Exercise and Weight Loss
From obesity researcher Travis Saunders comes this excellent post on how Canadian public health efforts to increase activity work against their own aims by tying exercise with weight loss: [T]he average weight loss in response to a moderate increase in physical activity levels is very modest, and it’s likely that many people would see no weight […]
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Microagressions
Microagressions is a site about venting those little racist/sexist/classist dings that hit throughout the day. Some examples: “Excuse me, do you speak English?” Man at the bus stop. I am an Asian American woman. I was reading Jane Austen. In English. “Wow, from talking to you on the phone, I’d never know that you were […]
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A few links
Marilyn Wann launched a new HAES site at http://2011revolutions.blogspot.com/, focusing at replacing diet resolutions with a revolution. Jezebel: If You’re Fat-Phobic, You’re Also An Ignorant, Bigoted Idiot and Biggest Weight Stories of 2010. “I don’t eat a hamburger and large chips every day!” A qualitative study of the impact of public health messages about obesity […]
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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 […]
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Thankful Thursday
[a not-always-weekly exercise in gratitude] Surviving crunch mode so far. Hanging out with a friend tonight. Tomorrow is Friday. ;) I walked up the ramp to our seats at the stadium last weekend instead of taking the elevator. Vitty10 put 2 of my posts on her Fat Acceptance Greatest Hits ;)
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FYI: About WordPress.com Ads
I do not directly profit from the Google Ads you may see on my site. In fact, WordPress prevents me from putting many standard advertisements on the site, which I’m fine with — I don’t pay the hosting. So, how do these ads appear? They are placed by WordPress, and are not shown to logged-into-WordPress […]
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Worth Reading
I was damaged as a result of being a fat kid, certainly; however, what damaged me was not my fat, but the messages I received about fatness. I was damaged by both perceiving myself and being treated by others as inferior, an object, something in need of repair, and not a person worthy of basic […]
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Thankful Thursday
[a not-always-weekly exercise in gratitude] I am feeling very scattered tonight and tempted to skip this … which probably means it’s a good idea to do. So. Today I am thankful for: 1) The Two Lumps books, which include creator commentary and well as the strips … 2) … and a husband who reads me excerpts […]
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Things to Read
Some cool things you may have missed: Meowser at Fatfu on fatergories: [N]ot everyone has the same shot at permanent thinness, at least not the kind that is associated with the kind of vim and vigor that people typically pursue thinness for. […] That’s how I came up with my “fatergories” theory — specifically, that […]
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Confession
I am dependent on food.* I truly believe that I need food to continue living.** Further, despite weighing 401lbs (yes, I own a scale) I eat every day. Even multiple times a day.*** Oh: and I think eating food when I’m hungry is a healthy and normal thing. Bwah! Clearly I am the destroyer of […]
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Random Items from My Day
Still here. Still weigh the same as I did before the holidays. (That’s simply a fact, BTW, not a success or failure. But it’s not what people expect, even though it’s incredibly average.) Excerpt from IM: Me: My dad called just as Good Eats started today. It was an episode on Alton’s recent weight loss and […]
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Oh, Michelle
Michelle at Fat Nutritionist wrote a terrific post today skewering the typical “Holiday Eating” articles. She also, fatally, mentioned both Maggie May* and Michelle. So of course this popped into my brain**: Like many songs, it has a story behind it. Unlike many songs, I actually have heard the story behind this one at […]
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Some Things Worth Reading
Suethsayings summarized the research on long-term weight loss surgery results. Bree at Life on FATS asks if anyone’s been refused entrance to a nightclub for being fat. (I replied over there but thought I’d try “boosting the signal” ;) Anyone thinking of doing NaNoWriMo? I’ve done it in the past, but not this year. Naafa […]
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Health At Every Size “whether you’re 100lbs or 500lbs”
The LA Times ran a couple articles on Health At Every Size this weekend. Diets? Not for these folks Do extra pounds always equal extra risk? One bit that from the second article gave me a smile: “You can’t know just based on a person’s size whether that person has good or poor health habits,” […]
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Links: Healthy Enough, Attractiveness, Photoshop
This quote comes from a personal finance blog, but it ties into the “enough” conversation a bit: If one defines the word rich in non-monetary terms, the seemingly herculean feat of “getting rich” may be one of the easiest (and most valuable) accomplishments of one’s life. What if “rich” is simply defined as “being content?” […]
Living ~400lbs 