Category Archives: Fat, fat and more fat

It may be self-evident that exercise reduces obesity, but that doesn't make it true

Over at The Economist blog, it is written: It seems self-evident to suggest that if schools that have eliminated physical education and recess reinstituted them, there would be fewer obese adolescents in America. Evidence suggests adding phys ed isn’t the … Continue reading

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Paul Campos on "10% of US Health Costs Are Due To Obesity"

Paul Campos is interviewed over at Megan McArdle’s blog. There’s a lot there worth reading, but I’ll highlight this bit in particular, since the study he’s discussing has been much in the news: Consider the methodology of this study. It … Continue reading

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Dance Your Ass Off

Years ago, my favorite part of the Drew Carey show was the opening credits, which featured Drew, who is fat, dancing. ((Actually, the show had a bunch of opening credit sequences over time, but at least a few of them … Continue reading

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Don't You Call Me Pudgy, Portly, or Stout

By any measure, Dr. Regina Benjamin has had an enormous positive impact on our nation. The first African-American woman and first physician under 40 to serve on the AMA’s board of trustees, Benjamin is the CEO of Bayou La Batre … Continue reading

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I liked Pixar's UP — and it had a fat co-star!

(Spoiler warning!) 1) We paid the extra couple of bucks to watch in 3-D. The 3-D was so well-done, so utterly natural and looked so good that we all stopped noticing it after the first fifteen minutes. Not really worth … Continue reading

Posted in Fat, fat and more fat, Feminism, sexism, etc, Popular (and unpopular) culture, Race, racism and related issues | 59 Comments

Equal vocabularies: Why we need the word "cis," and a new word for "normal weight."

On another thread, Ron asks a 101-style question about the term “cis”: So “cis-gender” would be that your physical and your … what, mental? … gender are the same… Not mental and physical. Rather, it’s that the gender you were … Continue reading

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The Boyscouts Sure Love Their Bigotry.

“In the boy scouts, they came first for the homosexuals, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a homosexual; And then they came for the atheists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t an atheist; And then they … Continue reading

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Moving towards equality, but in the wrong direction

Via You’re Reading Too Much Into It, The New York Times reports on a new trend: super-skinny male models. Where the masculine ideal of as recently as 2000 was a buff 6-footer with six-pack abs, the man of the moment … Continue reading

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The Big Fat Gay Youtube Collab, and other LGBT related links.

Via conservative David Link, who liked it despite himself. Demand Respectful and Accurate Reporting on Lateisha Green. Lateisha Green, a murdered trans woman, is being persistently referred to by mainstream news sources by her prior name and gender. This is … Continue reading

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Today Is International No Diet Day. Also, buy Kate and Marianne's book.

I think INDD has the best origin story of any holiday. From Wikipedia: The concept of INDD originated at 1992, when British Feminist Mary Evans Young decided to fight the diet industry and to raise awareness of the dangers in … Continue reading

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