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more about #sizeacceptance more comments → clevernamehere: I have really mixed feeling about the whole fat acceptance movement. On one hand, I completely agree that we need to be more accepting of different bo... more » Scout: I have an aversion to obese people (just being honest) but that in NO way give me the right to verbalize, condescend nor shame them. Just as I get tir... more » purpleshoes reminds everyone to take typing breaks and stretch, ow: What I think is hilarious is that my body can radically change shape - two or three dress sizes, from "healthy as a horse" to "knees and feet hurt all... more » Nora Bombay: 1. I love Kate Harding. I wanna have her babies. (I'm not quite sure how that would work but I suspect SCIENCE! would be involved) 2. Fat and bodies i... more » LaComtesse: Also, I would like to say that one person in my whole life, my grandfather, ever fat-shamed me, at least in the "Are you sure you want to eat that?" I... more » PetiteGal: Hey, Cynthia Cheng (moi) isn't going to take shit because she (I'm) not 5'8"....yet no one's paying me or giving me any press! more » Eric Northman is mine: Also why do people feel the need to pull a fat person aside and tell them they're worried about their weight? I mean I get that you love the person an... more » RisaPlata: The other day I was in the kitchen at work while a coworker was making his breakfast and he made a comment to me about how "people should learn to be ... more » Kate Harding: Cannot for the life of me figure out what my old login info is here, so this is my new incarnation. Thanks so much for the shout-out, Megan, and for t... more » Jello Mix: My brother was discharged from the army for weighing too much. He was exercising strenuously four hours a day on limited rations. He could bench 300, ... more » bellzar08: Today as I walking down my school hallway to go join my peers, this guy just initiates a very assholey conversation. Ass: what's that noise?bellzar: u... more » tiredfairy: It would be so amazing if more people took this to heart. That human beings deserve to be treated like human beings. In discussions about weight and s... more » trikota: I am reading right now "Such a Pretty Fat" by Lancaster. It is funny. And for some reason I thouight of it after I read this article. more » Shawn-Shawn: "I don't hate you because you're fat. You're fat because I hate you." (Obligatory Mean Girls quote) more » gobblegirl: I love that post by her that Jez posted a few months ago. I bookmarked it to remind myself not to be judgey by accident. Some of the fat-shaming is so... more » -
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Kate Harding Isn't Going To Take Shit Because She's Not A Size 4
The Chicago Tribune's Nara Schoenberg has a great profile of writer Kate Harding who, in addition to blogging at Salon, has her own fat-acceptance blog where she's happy to tell people to fuck off. More »
