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more about #healthateverysize more comments → SurferWomyn: I am being really honest here so please enlighten me (nicely) on your thoughts on this. I understand that the man that this story is about was obese ... more » MoonCat82: i feel for this woman. my mother, younger brother and both of my younger siblings are obese. i love them all so much and i don't want to do any of tha... more » cnphair: Obesity is not healthy. But being "fat" by fashion's standards is not the same thing as truly, medically obese. A size 14 is not obese. It is not "fa... more » Raised-byHeathens: One thing that is never present in these articles is the underlying class tension that fat acceptance riles up. While in earlier cultures, being plump... more » KikiCanuck: I'm starting to lose hope that we will ever get to a place where thin and healthy are not synonymous, at least in terms of people's first reactions. I... more » pesematology: So she can accept that his compressed disc, diabetes, emphysema, and heart problems, but fat (someone else's, natch) is something she just refuses to ... more » AgainWithFeeling: I'm sorry for Ms. Shriver's loss of her brother, and given her brother's poor health at the time of writing I understand her anxiety, but I can't help... more » Sarah Dove: I thought 'fat acceptance' meant accepting fat PEOPLE and not being a dick to them, and accepting that fat people are not necessarily unhealthy, rathe... more » Valkyrie607: I feel for Ms. Shriver. Her brother died and perhaps if she had just pushed him a little more to control his eating (or whatever she tells herself lat... more » andromedeia: I think the perceived relationship between health and weight that people have is so interesting. I'm 6'4" and I used to be around 235 lbs, which was m... more » Zombies make the heart grow fonder: A healthy at any size argument fails when the example used, as the case here, is not healthy at all and experiencing health issues which are directly ... more » karmasutra är svensk: I just hate how in public, if someone sees a skinny person eating a cheeseburger, it's like 'Oh, that's okay, s/he's skinny!' but if you see a heavier... more » activearchivist is lovely, in a moist, fluffy sort of way: I wanted to leave this as a reply to those who find HAES harmful, but there's a lot of them, and I think I can be more relevant up here. As someone s... more » Kitty: "...points out that fat characters in Disney films are always evil, and asks, 'when is fat Cinderella?'" I'm going to have to disagree with that. Th... more » snowmentality: Yeah, it's about HEALTH at every size. The goal of healthy living -- including a healthy amount of enjoyable physical activity, and a nutritious d... more » -
#weightymatters
"I Won't Simply Accept That My Brother Is Fat"
In a disturbing essay in today's Guardian, Lionel Shriver (not pictured) writes about her brother's obesity, and why she can't fully get on board with fat acceptance.
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#fatpanic
Does Letting Fat People Dance Encourage Obesity?
Long Beach, California's Club Bounce caters to fat people "who might have some trouble getting past the velvet ropes at other night spots because of their size." And where there are happy fat people, there's controversy!
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#widescreen
The Small Screen: A Professional Fatass Gives Drop Dead Diva A Second Look
As a professional unapologetic fatass, I've been asked by numerous media outlets to comment on Lifetime TV's big girl empowerment dramedy Drop Dead Diva. And I have. But until last night, I hadn't actually watched anything beyond the second episode. More » -
#healthateverysize
As Always, It's More Important To Look Good Than To Feel Good
Want to know how to make my head explode? Recommend a bunch of community initiatives I completely support — boosting walkability, bringing supermarkets to underserved neighborhoods, creating bike paths — and sell it all as a War on Childhood Obesity.
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#foodfights
Times Discovers Women Who Don't Diet
Today's New York Times "Thursday Styles" section has (another) article about how some people eschew dieting in favor of eating what they want — even if it doesn't make them thin. More »
