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"If the answer is because they legitimately don’t want kids: Fine. But I wonder if we’ve devalued motherhood culturally." Is…
If the answer is because they legitimately don’t want kids: Fine. But I wonder if we’ve devalued motherhood culturally. Motherhood…
Yeah, really they are gaming the Electoral System, and the College is just one part of it, albeit a pretty…
I laughed quite loudly when I read that comment and I couldn't explain to my mom what I was laughing…
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Category Archives: Fat, fat and more fat
Cartoon: What We Tell Fat People
I have a new cartoon up at Everyday Feminism! If you enjoy these cartoons, and can spare it, please support my patreon. A $1 pledge means a lot. Transcript of cartoon: Title: What We Tell Fat People Panel 1 (A … Continue reading
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On being fat and liking creators who have done anti-fat material
I love some of Tina Fey’s work. But she tells fat jokes, including a sketch where she appeared in a fat suit. I love The Simpsons, but soooo many fat jokes. By far my favorite MCU work is Jessica Jones, … Continue reading
I’m Asking You For A Peer-Reviewed Study Showing That A Typical Fat Person Can Become Sustainably Non-Fat Through Deliberate Weight-Loss
Hi! If you’ve been directed to this post, it’s probably because we’re discussing if there’s any practical, sustainable, healthy way for a typical fat person to choose to no longer be fat. As part of this discussion, I’ve asked you … Continue reading
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Why Feminists Shouldn’t Use “Neckbeard”
My newest “Everyday Feminism” cartoon. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON (At the top of the cartoon, large cartoon-style letters spell out “NECKBEARD.” Each letter is growing stubble hairs out of its lowest third.) (Behind all the panels is a large drawing of … Continue reading
Odds of a severely obese woman becoming “normal” weight: 1 in 677. For men, 1 in 1290.
[Image from Jes Baker’s awesome “Empower All Bodies” project.] Another reason it just makes more sense to encourage fat people to love our bodies, rather than teaching fat people to hate our bodies until we attain “normal” weight: The chance … Continue reading
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Some Criticism Of That Swedish “Fat And Fit is a Myth” Study
So a new Swedish study has been making headlines: ‘You cannot be fat AND fit’: Study warns obese people still have greater health risks – Mirror Online ‘Fat But Fit’ Is Not Good For Health: Study ‘Fat but fit’ counts … Continue reading
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A response to “The Fat Whisperer”
coswhateverforever asked: •Obese people arent healthy •You can still love yourself at any size •There is no health at any size and it can cause many problems.. How can you love your body when youre slowly killing it? •Its ok … Continue reading
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New Cartoon: The Fat Whisperer
Read the whole cartoon over at Everyday Feminism.
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People are very concerned that fat kids, most of whom probably aren’t even fat, aren’t hating themselves enough
Kevin Drum at Mother Jones is so very concerned, because “our kids are fat” but “they don’t know it.” Not that Kevin read a study, exactly, but he did read Fat kids don’t know they’re fat anymore, a post at … Continue reading
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Lindy West gets an apology from one of her nastiest trolls
I enjoyed this episode of This American Life. Just pointing it out for anyone interested in the same issues. Lindy’s troll, by the way, was motivated by a combination of misogyny and internalized fat self-hatred; he at the time was … Continue reading
Look! Another great game by the serial sexual assaulter whose offenses were deemed much less serious by the NFL than…