Oh, No! My Boyfriend’s Fat!
It’s time for another Cary Tennis column! Actually, while I usually think Cary gives crappy non-advice, I do think he got this one right. First, the letter: Dear Cary, Currently I’m dating a man who just won’t leave my consciousness, not for a moment. I think of him all the time. He’s pretty special. My [...]
...read moreFat Chance
Will we ever see an article about fat women and widening beauty standards that doesn’t feel the paternalistic need to mention all the health issues associated with obesity (because the fat girls might not know)? I’d rather just focus on Mo’nique: “I hope that when women walk away from the show … they sleep better [...]
...read moreLet’s Talk Tits.
I’m really not interested in rehashing the details of the latest installation of l’affaire Goldstein, but if nothing else, it made me aware of this bizarre post by Dr. Helen (Mrs. Instapundit), in which she argues that Jeff’s response to Deborah Frisch actually strikes a blow for women’s rights everywhere, because he stood up to [...]
...read moreLA Times to Fat Girls: Cover it Up!
You know an article is going to be bad when it’s titled Letting it all hang out: For many young women, one size fits all – no matter how that makes them look. And, not surprisingly, it comes with a fair bit of fat-shaming. Of women, of course — men are mentioned once, as the [...]
...read moreLoving Large
Josh Max has a piece today in Salon about his attraction to larger women (and his 10-year marriage to one) that looks at some of the social forces shaping attraction and the peer pressure that tells men that there’s something wrong with being attracted to fat women. It’s a pretty good piece, albeit a bit [...]
...read moreTeh Surgery
Because I am lazy, I will again rely on the inimitable Jamison Green for a brief synopsis of the available options:
...read moreAn Added Bonus To Avoiding Cancer: Get Skinny!
The basic story is this: Stomach cancer runs in the Bradfield family. Upon learning that they possessed the defective gene that would likely lead to cancer and eventually kill them, eleven cousins decide to undergo surgery to completely remove their stomachs. Stomach removal means that now they have to digest all their food in their [...]
...read moreThe Trials and Tribulations of the Too Thin and Too Rich
What’s an already-fit, already-thin woman to do when she lives in a society that demands unreasonable thinness and unattainable physical perfection from women? Get micro-liposuction to get rid of “bra fat” and “back fat.”
...read moreFat Jokes
Chris Clarke, eloquent fella that he is, puts into words several things I’ve been thinking about the kinds of insults that liberals will unthinkingly throw at conservatives: A reader, after considering my post on civility, sent a note asking whether the notion of justifiable incivility might not pose the threat of blowback, of giving some [...]
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