Sadly, BMI is taken very seriously by people in Arkansas, where I live. When I was in high school BMI was taken every year (mandatory, if you missed that day you had a make-up scheduled). No matter what your results were, they were sent to your parents along with your report card. Honors classes, straight As, marching band, oh yeah and your kid is morbidly obese. Most parents took it as fact without seriously looking at their kid, and it hurt a lot of people’s feelings. But I guess this is the same school system and nation where I spent an hour a week learning to fill in bubbles on standardized tests for No Child Left Behind, so the BMI issue may be the least of our problems.

It’s time our health care professionals learned that not everybody is a 30 year old white male.

Fat acceptance is not about what it’s detractors think it’s about, it’s about what it’s about. It is defined by the people who are fat and have decided to take control as they are the ones who can and should define themselves most accurately. Fat acceptance is not defeatist, defeatism is epitomised by allowing those that wish to malign you to define you. Defining yourself positively and honestly is the duty of any human being. It is obvious that dieting and exercise does not make fat people thin, we who have the experience know this through our own experience, through our own bodies and minds, it is not something that requires the conformation of others. If this upsets people complains should be taken to the forces that designed the human body.

I thought scintillating wit is your true colour. Is she saying that you are faking? If so jolly good effort, you had me fooled.

Mmm, see, I’d have to agree that “arm candy” is an extremely offensive term. Especially since it’s 95% of the time aimed at women. Smells just a little of misogyny.

Quite. I remmeber reading that according to height/weight calculations, Martina Navratilova was obese.