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Posts Tagged ‘fatphobia’
Fat Dinosty
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged awesome videos, fat acceptance, fat dinosty, fatphobia on February 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Polarized Bodies
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Crystal Renn, fashion, fatphobia, media, nytimes, objectification, racism, sexualization on January 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Everyone seems to be talking about Crystal Renn these days. The New York Times claims she’s “The Triumph of the Size 12s.” Jezebel says she’s not. And commenters think that having Crystal Renn in 8 page photoshoots is encouraging obesity. So here’s my take. Photographers and Designers told Crystal Renn she was too fat, now [...]
egads
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fatphobia, nytimes on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
oh noes!!! WEIGHT GAIN?!?! what could be worse than WEIGHT GAIN?! “This is a general health concern,” she said. “Getting married or moving in with a partner and having a baby are events that trigger even further weight gain.
the incredible shrinking woman
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fatphobia on January 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
not the most radical article but hearing all these new year’s resolutions about losing weight made me read this article extra carefully so that i dont fall into the same damn trap. We feed the billion-dollar diet industry while denying our own bodies. We accept the premise that being thin will change our lives while [...]
Feministing and Pre-existing
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fatphobia, feministing, health care, politics, sexism, trans issues on October 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Feministing had a great post today about how health care reform is a feminist issue and it got me thinking to do a bit of research. What I found was that women are in need of a complete overhaul of our health care system and we need it now. Check out here, here, and here [...]
Lose the blubber? More like lose the douchebaggery.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged advertising, animal rights, beauty, body image, fatphobia, gendered insults, media, objectification, PETA, sexism, shaming, vegetarianism on August 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Dear PETA: Sometimes you have pretty cool campaigns. Sometimes you miss the mark entirely and produce crap like this. I don’t know who thought “YES, this is a great idea! Let’s use one of the most derogatory words for fat women and put it on a HUGE billboard and imply that women are whales that [...]
BMI Project and self lovin’
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bmi, body image, cultural shame, fatphobia, feminism, media, patriarchy, Shapely Prose, vassar on April 10, 2009 | 8 Comments »
It ain’t easy being “obese” on a campus where the trend is to be a skinny hipster. A place like Vassar should have so many happy wonderful women, and yet hardly a day goes by when I don’t hear some sort of comment come out of my mouth or a friend’s that has some self-hating [...]
