You see, if you’re an educated leftie, you figure out nutrition and the biochemical changes of exercise-generated mitochondria when you get your book learnin’ on at teh librarriz.

If you’re a Red-Stater you sit on your butt in front of teh teeveez with ur Cheetoz and pack on teh poundz.

It also conflates with working feminists being professional women and therefore having to be thin in the workplace to have an “accepted” and “professional” appearance.

I’m too lazy to look up the studies (teh stereotypz theh burn ZOMG!1!) but there are some about how women with “too much bosom” are not seen as sufficiently “professional” in the workplace; that a B cup is just enough.

(We’re Puritan enough as a society that I don’t even think I’ve seen any studies on women with “too much butt”; it smacks of analysis of ethnographic body types and we’re just not gonna go there.)

It’s all very subtle, and very Puritan and Calvinist — and extremely anti-feminist.

But I don’t think a lot of feminists want to think about it; either b/c they think it doesn’t affect them directly (and therefore apply the thought process described above of thin women telling larger women tired of the constant abuse being hurled at them “what about teh SKINNYZ?!”), or just because it’s extremely uncomfortable to have to consider …

… being an Educated Progressive Feminist and all.

And after all, it’s the correct train of thought. After all, if those Red Staters just got up off the couch and stopped eating Cheetos and got their heads out of their Bibles and went for a walk once in a while, they’d be thin, like us, right?

Right???

Officially OT: I’m not sure how I missed this debate. But wasn’t this asshat profiled already some months ago? Hasn’t he had enough press?

Jill, thank you for calling attention to the issue.

So feminists are finally waking up to the fact that fat WOMEN might actually know more about their bodies than anyone else, oh wait, isn’t that supposed to be an idea central to feminism? That women are sentient human beings in there own right and not puppets of patriarchal authority, even if that authority is pimping science (and prompoting pseudoscience) to achieve this?

I think the anti-gym in and of itself is very sexist. It’s not about healthy women, it’s about women that can be objectified sexually:

http://tobestalks.blogspot.com/2007/11/anti-gym-seems-kinda-anti-woman.html

What drives me crazy is when people interrupt fat women talking (in feminist circles) to say “Thin women get made fun of just as much as fat women.” or complain that fat feminists don’t sympathize with the problems of being thin.

I have done this, when I first started posting, but it was in response to comments about “skinny bitches,” and the like. It’s ridiculous to call a fat person lazy, and it’s ridiculous to call a thin person an untrustworthy bitch. But you’re right, it’s not about me. It’s just a variation on “What about teh MENZ?!!” and I understand that now. I just wanted to explain myself.

Why does everything in those stores stop at size “L,” which is really about Size 14, or maybe at an occasional, ugly, grayish “XL” (aka size 16) on the sale rack?

Not only that, but why are sports bras for well-endowed women so freaking expensive and hard to find? It just makes it more financially out of reach for poor women. Even going up and down stairs is good exercise, if you’re not holding your breasts in place the whole time because of the painful bouncing.