fat-shaming

Obligatory Britney Post

by Cara September 10, 2007

Sigh. Okay, so there are about a million things that I would rather be writing about right now than Britney Spears. Trust me. So I apologize to those of you who don’t want to hear it, and to those of you who have already heard about it 20 times already. But I feel that, unfortunate [...]

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Size-Positivity, Art and Objectification

by Cara September 10, 2007

Via the Weekly Feminist Reader comes this site: The Adipositivity Project. Adipose means “of or relating to fat.” The site gives this description of the project: The Adipositivity Project aims to promote size acceptance, not by listing the merits of big people, or detailing examples of excellence (these things are easily seen all around us), [...]

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Offensive Remark of the Week

by Cara July 14, 2007

The Offensive Remark comes a little early this week, courtesy of John Travolta. And he certainly earned it. In talking about playing his female character in Hairspray, he didn’t stop at griping about the “risks” and potential embarrassment of playing a woman, or at talking about the struggle to not look “grotesque” as an overweight [...]

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Ten Offensive Lies That the Patriarchy Would Love You to Believe

by Cara July 12, 2007

The other day, astute reader Sara sent me the most outrageous and offensive article I have read in a long time: Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature from Psychology Today. My jaw literally hurts from hanging open in horror for so long. Due to the long nature and extreme quotability of the article, I’m [...]

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Too Fat to Adopt?

by Cara June 29, 2007

A woman in Australia has been told that she is too fat to adopt. Kylie Lannigan weighs 126kg, or 278lbs. She has been told that in order to eligible to adopt, she must drop down to 85kg, or 177lbs– a total weight loss of 90lbs. Lannigan is 170cms, or 5’7” tall. For the record, at [...]

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Even Liberals Love to Fat-Shame

by Cara June 11, 2007

I’m a bit late in getting to this, but Salon has a lovely fat-shaming article up, about how the fetishizing of large black female buttocks is assisting in the obesity crisis. Supposedly, women like Buffie the Body, a black female cover girl who is famous for her disproportionately large ass, perpetuate the idea that black [...]

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If you’re fat, it’s not really rape

by Cara May 24, 2007

Here’s the outrage of the week: A lawyer in London who is defending three boys accused of gang raping two girls, said that one of the girls “may well have been glad of the attention.” Because she’s overweight. No, I’m not making this up. I wish that I was. So victim blaming isn’t enough, anymore. [...]

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