Misconceptions about Fat Acceptance

Why oh why is it that some people see the words “Fat Acceptance” and automatically assume that what we’re promoting is sitting on the couch all day, eating baby-flavored donuts and Mickey Dee’s, and very little else?
The most recent post over at Eat a Cheeseburger got me thinking about this again, but it’s come up [...]

What *I* want for Fat Acceptance.

Quite a few blog posts have had me thinking about this.  One of which I have to admit, I sparked.  And because we’re not a monolithic group, because we’re made up of many different people from many different walks of life who have many different personal goals regarding FA, I decided I needed to be [...]

WTF ever happened to “ooh, your baby looks so fat & HEALTHY”????

Yeah, apparently now the quacks that brought us the (nonexistent) Obesity Epidemic are now finding “obesity” in infants.
As a mother of 4, this totally pisses me off.  For one thing, for thousands of years it’s been known that a fat baby usually equals a healthy baby.  Obviously not all of the time, but a good [...]

Jesus Christ, the stupidity astounds me!

fa pride!
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Try losing 100 pounds. You’ll see that back pain go away.
dummy.
From Friday Not-So-Fun: Back Pain Sucks!, 2008/07/25 at 11:45 PM

I don’t even know where to start.  Shall I start with the fact that I didn’t have any consistent back pain until I tried [...]

Fatphobia Scarily Close to Home

As Sandy reported last night, Gateshead City Council is joining the Fatphobia Brigade and thinking up the most ridiculous measures they can think of to fight OMG TEH FATZ!!!11!!!ELEVENTY-ONE!!. I’ll get to what I think about that in a moment.
But what really scares me?  Gateshead is the next city over from me.  Yup – I [...]

Sexism sells. Are YOU buying it?

I am so mind-blowingly horrified right now that I’m having a hard time stringing together a coherent sentence.  So bear with me, please.
As an American woman living in the UK, I will be the first one to admit that I’m way out of touch with the American media.  I see snippets [...]

Quote of the Day

The Littlest Monster, also known as my 5 year old daughter, earlier this evening:
Of course you’re cute, Mommy!  … And you’re cuddly, too!
The first sentence was in reference to a question she asked me.  I have absolutely no idea why it occurred to her to ask this question, but she came into the kitchen where [...]

Val Kilmer + Fat = Ugly. Are you kidding me?

In the latest episode of The World Has Gone Absolutely Loopy, through RioIriri, I heard about this whole “let’s vilify Val Kilmer because he doesn’t look like a sex god anymore” thing.  To be quite honest, I’d never heard about VK having gained any weight at all, but then again, I steer as clear of [...]

Now it’s competitive eating’s fault.

In yet another episode of The World Has Gone Absolutely Loopy, apparently now the OMG OBESITY EPIDEMIC!!!!!11!!!! minions have started to go after eating competitions.

This fall, the University of Iowa canceled its annual corn-eating contest, held the week of the Iowa-Iowa State football game. Many saw the contest as a fun nod to the state’s [...]