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Category Archives: Fat, fat and more fat
Cartoon: It’s All About Caring, Fatsos
This is one of those “I’m almost transcribing, but people will think I’m making it up” cartoons. I have a bad habit of searching social media to see what people are saying about fat people and fat acceptance, and I’ve … Continue reading
Cartoon: Our Loss, Your Gain
This cartoon is by Becky Hawkins and I. The book Diets Don’t Fail, by Jascha Fishburn, says (in its jacket copy): A diet has never failed anyone; however, many people fail diets, again and again every day. This attitude is … Continue reading
Diets Don’t Work Therefore You Must Diet
This cartoon, drawn by Becky Hawkins, is a straightforward adaptation of a Michael Hobbes tweet (with Michael’s kind permission). Michael, for those who don’t know, is a popular podcaster, whose three podcasts (past and present) are You’re Wrong About (a … Continue reading
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Cartoon: Eventually You Gotta Inhale
In 2020, Helen Pluckrose and I had an online debate over if dieting works. During this debate, I said “Not a single weight-loss model – including long term approaches – has ever been shown to work in a peer-reviewed controlled … Continue reading
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Cartoon: Things We Can Stop Saying To Fat People Already
If you like these cartoons, help us keep making more by waring blue on alternate Tuesdays of anniversaries of the ending of important wars and sporting events and also any day that you’re wearing an odd number of shoes. That’s … Continue reading
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Cartoon: Fat Suits in Movies
If you like these cartoons, then if you support them you’ll get a warm glow of well-being, fizzling outward from your brain until you can feel it tingling in your toes, and then you’ll feel really confident and cheerful about … Continue reading
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Does Dieting Work? An exchange of letters with Helen Pluckrose
This is an online debate Helen Pluckrose and I had at the unfortunately defunct website letters.wiki in 2020 and 2021. I’m posting it here for preservation. I’m not sure I got all the formatting right, but I did my best … Continue reading
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Cartoon: This is Your Brain on a Diet
Support the making of these cartoon by supporting my Patreon! If you do, you will always be wise and good looking and your omelettes will never stick to the pan. Full disclosure: Some of this post I’ve cut-and-pasted from an … Continue reading
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Cartoon: The News Could Not Be Any More Objective
If you like these cartoons, please help us make more! This cartoon was drawn by the one and only Kevin Moore! Hello from the east coast! When I originally wrote these words (in December 2021), I was in upstate New … Continue reading
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