{"id":2478,"date":"2006-06-19T13:03:37","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T20:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/19\/former-alas-co-blogger-bean-on-german-tv\/"},"modified":"2006-06-19T13:03:37","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T20:03:37","slug":"former-alas-co-blogger-bean-on-german-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2478","title":{"rendered":"Former &quot;Alas&quot; Co-Blogger Bean on German TV!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A German TV news show did a segment on FATASS, the fat activist radical cheerleaders Bean is part of (FATASS stands for Fat Action Troupe All-Star Spirit Squad). <a href=\"http:\/\/coolbeanscool.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/fatass-pdx-on-german-television_19.html\">Check it out.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s very cool that they were on German TV, I found the piece&#8217;s emphasis on &#8220;fat chicks are sexxee too!&#8221; analysis a bit annoying. Sexiness matters, but it isn&#8217;t the only possible locus of worth and empowerment, and it&#8217;s not all that fat activism is about, but you&#8217;d never know that from this segment. (I once had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/03\/04\/michael-j-fox-in-a-fat-suit\/\">the same complaint about a Michael J. Fox sitcom<\/a>, oddly enough.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German TV news show did a segment on FATASS, the fat activist radical cheerleaders Bean is part of (FATASS stands for Fat Action Troupe All-Star Spirit Squad). Check it out. Although it&#8217;s very cool that they were on German &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2478\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-fat-and-more-fat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}