Fat 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 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 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 moreMore Fat (Politics)
This is a follow-up to my post on fat jokes in the liberal blogosphere, in which I shamelessly ripped off the far more eloquent Chris Clarke. But I only addressed part of Chris’s post; the rest I will discuss here. In the beginning of the post, Chris slammed those in the liberal blogosphere who will [...]
...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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