Your Diet is Boring and Sad (and triggering)
When you talk about dieting, you may be triggering people you care about. If you don’t want to hurt people you like, please stop talking about dieting.
Tag Archives: fatphobia
Two Crowdfunding Projects I think you should support (if you’re able)
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By supporting these projects you’re helping make the world a safer place for people like me.
We’re not public property
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A quote from Rachele’s amazing rant about the scummy, scamming diet company “Venus Factor.”
A little foreknowledge can save you a lot of heartache…
I’d rather know as early as possible someone’s political or religious beliefs — because they could negatively affect my life.
A World Without Fat People
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Another excellent post from the blog Dances With Fat. If you haven’t read this blog, you really should.
I’ll “Fat Talk” as Much as I Gorram Please
What I take issue with in this video is the labeling of self-hatred as “fat talk”.
[quote of the day] September 5th, 2013
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If you gave a good goddamn about the health of fat people, you’d shut up about our fatness. You are destroying our mental health — and that can kill a person just as surely as anything else. —Marianne Kirby, “This Fat News Anchor is Mad — And Not Going to Take Being Bullied Anymore”, xojane
Amoeba Cat and the Ogre go on a road trip (and see some kittens; also — Reading Rainbow)
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[content warning: mention of disordered eating and fatphobia] This past weekend was the BC Day long weekend (I believe the first Monday in August is the long weekend across Canada, with Province-specific holidays; I know it was Alberta Heritage Day as well as BC Day, f’ex), so I got to spend four days at the Ogre’s house instead of just… Read more »
Ursula apparently too fat to sell make up; am I skinny enough to wear it?
Disney is putting out a limited edition set of make-up items this September: “six limited-edition collectors’ dolls and coordinating beauty items” for six Disney villains, apparently “from Cruella de Vil to Maleficent”. All of the villains have had their image updated, to the point where Ursula has gone from a size 30 to a size 0: I could get really… Read more »
Eating Disorders and Losing Weight (trigger warning: disordered eating, mental health issues, fatphobia)
I suppose I’m continuing in a somewhat depressive vein, here, but it needs to be said. I’m a fat-positive activist, and I believe in HAES — Health At Every Size. Fat people are still people and should be treated like human beings, instead of like second class citizens or monsters who live in catacombs below the opera house. Which, yeah,… Read more »
Tales from the Fat Side: Coldstone’s Cold Shoulder
Today a friend and I decided to go to Tim Horton’s for some Coldstone’s ice cream. I was really happy when Coldstone’s came up here from the States, as it had been a favourite of mine when I lived in Hawaii. The fact that it’s in Tim Horton’s means it’s easier to convince my boyfriend to go and get it,… Read more »
Rape Culture and Fatphobia
[TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE, FATPHOBIA] “Fat girls should be happy for any attention.” “Oh, come on, she’s too fat to be raped!” How many times have you heard or seen the above sentiments, or ones similar to them? How many times have you uttered them, either because you truly believe they’re true or because you’ve internalized hatred of yourself, or both?… Read more »