October 2010
15 posts
steambolt-tron-sails-on asked: I think it's sad that there even has to be a fat acceptance movement. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not criticising anything. I'm fat myself. I know what it's like to be judged because I'm bigger than the "average" person. I just wish that there didn't have to be anything like this and that just because a human being has extra weight it (ironically)...
Study: Being Skinny Is Better Than Finding Love →
I’m sure societal conditioning had nothing to do with that
the worst thing a woman can be is not skinny. It’s worse than being single! Or at least that’s how this data is being interpreted.
There’s no mention of physical health or mental health. You’ve got to wonder about all the women who are thin and depressed. Or skinny and physically ill. Or slender and...
Big McLargeHuge —
fiercefatties:
The following was posted on Fierce, Freethinking Fatties. Join the conversation there and help us determine our strategy to Let “Huge” Live.
As you have probably already heard, and mourned, ABC Family has announced it will not renew “Huge” for a second season, citing declining ratings as the reason.
Savannah Dooley sounds as though she has all but given up on any last-chance...
Deeply Problematic | Why I use that word that I... →
The word fat holds a great deal of sway in the popular imagination. Everyone has a particular and often arbitrary standard for what fat means, where it begins and where it ends. In most cases, fat as an adjective is applied in an unambiguously negative way (e.g. “Mariah Carey got fat”) , and denied in an unambiguously positive way (“what are you talking about? you’re not fat at all, you’re...
Clutch Magazine: "No Fat Chicks: Navigating the... →
pluseyes:
buttahlove:
VERY well written. This is absolutely how I feel as a fat black woman living in San Diego. Tried to explain this in the past to some white friends that I had, but they didn’t “get” it. It sucks big time especially when you see [black] men with fat girls of every race BUT your own. It’s like a slap in your face.
This is totally worth reading. The author addresses too...
Healthy-Living Blogs Maybe Not So Healthy →
In millennial America, it’s become almost impossible to write about health without some dieting or weight-loss tips creeping in — and while women once got the message that they should be skinny by any means necessary, we’re now getting the even more contradictory command to be thin but not use any deprivation or unhealthy methods to get there (which is why actresses, models, and now...
Sign The Petition To Save Huge →
The show “only” had ratings averaging around 1.9 million viewers. But I’d be willing to guess that for the almost two million people it touched, the impact was really important. So here’s a petition. Let’s try and save Huge. It doesn’t hurt to try!
The petition link: http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/savehuge