January 2012
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Three truly productive things you can do about...
Self-check your breasts or have a mammogram if you are in the free screening age group. (http://www.bsnsw.org.au)
Volunteer to help women with breast cancer or donate to an organisation that does. (http://www.bcna.org.au).
Donate to reputable organisations that fund breast cancer research. (http://www.breastcanceraustralia.org or http://cancercouncil.com.au).
NB: Wearing pink, buying pink...
August 2011
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January 2011
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“Fat and Fatter” Grrr! →
Normally wouldn’t post this in two places - but I’ve just posted this to my main blog in response to Australia’s ABC screening a program called “Fat and Fatter” which is extemely fat hating, exploitative and offensive.
“Fat and Fatter” is the most offensively fat-hating program I have ever seen – and worse, it masqueraded as ‘helping’ two young girls, when in ...
October 2010
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Dear Fatphobia/Thin Privilege deniers →
sugaredvenom:
There is a direct insight into what society thinks about fat people. That we should die, be ashamed, that we’re gross, immoral and useless. At best, figures of ridicule. Try it yourself. Try adding words like “do” or “can” instead of “should” or “are” and notice these aren’t…
July 2010
5 posts
“we’re allowed to be overweight as long as we “never quit” trying, publicly and...”
– Monique “mo pie” van den Berg @ Big Fat Deal (via dearly) (via ilovefat) (via sleepydumpling) (via silentbeep)
“that’s a nice philosophy you have there: hating people for their own good....”
– http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/06/stop-with-the-fat-jokes-new-york-daily-news/58308/#comment-57273869 (via silentbeep)
June 2010
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“It occurred to me the other day that fat – considered, in excess, a prima facie...”
– From ‘Medieval’ by Defective Thin Person.
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“When are these people going to realise that shame and self loathing does not...”
– From Fat Lot of Good
“Girth has nothing to do with worth.”
– (via meetingmyselfproject)
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“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of...”
– Marilyn Monroe
May 2010
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Fatiquette #7
Fatitude is everything.
Claim your space in the world and do it with style.
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Fatiquette #6
Food is not ‘good’, ‘bad’ or even ‘naughty’.
Food has no moral value.
April 2010
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“Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the...”
– The Second Mrs De Winter (Rebecca, 1940)
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Fatiquette #5
The Fat Fashion Rules are that there are no Fat Fashion Rules.
Wear what pleases YOU.
“The two major causes of child overweight are 1) misinterpreting a child’s normal...”
– Ellyn Satter
“Dieting may be the one industry that we can’t subcontract to India or...”
– Sherman Yellen, Huffington Post
“No matter what a woman’s appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what...”
– Naomi Wolf (via fakefuckery) (via donewiththisshit)
“Ladies don’t start fights, but they can finish them!”
– Marie, The AristoCats (1970) (via writingsarah) (via quote-book) (via miscaderasnomienten)
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“The more hours of TV a girl watches the less options she believes she has. The...”
– Melissa Silverstein, paraphrasing Geena Davis
“My iPad is like a gun lobbyist’s rifle: the only way you will take it from...”
– — Stephen Fry for TIME from The iPad Launch: Can Steve Jobs Do It Again?
“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t...”
– Neil Gaiman
(via moshimoshineko)
“There’s an old joke: Two elderly women are at a Catskill Mountain resort. And...”
– Annie Hall (1977) (via moshimoshineko)
Change what you see, not how you look
From Riots Not Diets (who has an awesome therapist):
Last Monday I went to a therapist for the first time. I was understandably nervous and a little bit freaked out. Among other things, I wanted my therapist to know that I was happy with being fat, and that I would NOT be okay with any “food as comfort for childhood pain this-is-why-you’re-fat” psychobabble. So I was brave. We sat down, I told her...
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“I’m always amused by people who say, “The Laws of Physics are undeniable....”
– Marilyn Wann (in comments) (via donewiththisshit)
“I was thinking how it seems that dieting has replaced sex as a means of trying...”
– Purity, or how dieting is the new virginity (via amenenema)
Too true.
Guilty people get defensive. . .
andywarwhore:
Stupid people get defensive over things in their head they think is directed at them.
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Fatiquette #4
You have the right to bare arms.
Political Correctness doesn't stop you from saying...
definatalie:
tiaramerchgirl:
jhameia:
steampunkanachronism:
(via cijimcb)
Excellent.
March 2010
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Thin Privilege 101 →
mamavh:
ilovefat:
jerseyjezebel:
gandhilove:
Not all women’s bodies are oppressed equally. Just because all women feel fat does not mean all women are fat. There is something unique to being fat, whether a person is a man or a woman, that makes that person uniquely oppressed in this society. And failing to acknowledge that is thin privilege.
Consider some of the privileges you may own...
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Go read this in full now. Seriously. Now.
Fatshionista on being a fat kid and ‘childhood obesity’:
Nothing that happened to me as a kid, none of the changes I went through, none of the self-loathing I absorbed, none of the teasing I tolerated, none of it would have taken place if I were fat in a vacuum. None of it happened exclusively as a result of my fatness. It happened because of the culture in which I was living, a...
Love Your Body. →
(via samanthadimauro)
From the makers of adiosbarbie.com
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Fatiquette #3
Thou shalt not monitor the contents of thy neighbour’s shopping trolley.
“The question of “was it rape?” does not depend on an alleged victim’s actions...”
– Trial for Officer Accused of Rape Invokes Victim-Blaming Myths : The Curvature (via clingtomymouth) (via robot-heart-politics) (via bthny) (via differentvoice)
The phrase "healthy weight" gives me hives.
donewiththisshit:
lemdi:
therealestsocksinthegame:
novazembla:
It’s a dog whistle for “thin enough.” People who have had it with body image nonsense hear the judgment, while anyone else can say, “What’s wrong with health?” Nothing’s wrong with health. But that’s not what we’re talking about.
This phrase can be rehabilitated! Notably in contexts that explicitly acknowledge that:
one...
“The body hair ship may have sailed, but vaginal modification is at a point right...”
– Amanda Hess, “The Problem With Defending The Sacred Choice to Vajazzle” (via rosietint)
So how long do we have to wait for Disney to bring out Princess Vajazzling decals?