Posted in fat, fat acceptance, feminism, obesity epidemic, racism on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
One of the fantastic things about blogging is the practice we get in dialogue. Standing up for our opinions, seeing others, and conversing accordingly. Last year I had a fantastic professor who focused on taking on the rhetoric of white america, trying and failing, to deal with racism. It was tough, because it made us [...]
Posted in beauty ideal, body image, diet, eating disorder, fat, fat acceptance, obesity epidemic, skinny on February 19, 2008 | No Comments »
1) your success is measured ULTIMATELY by a number, by a size, by how you look. When weight is your primary goal, how you feel will be in second place
2) you believe that becoming smaller, more compact, less, will make you happier MORE than you believe listening to your body will. And being smaller will [...]
Posted in adolescent girls, beauty ideal, body image, diet, fat, fat acceptance, feminism, food, self reflection on February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
One of my best friends growing up was probably classified as “morbidly obese” by the BMI. I loved horses, and obsessed about them, but having 3 younger siblings, getting out to horse country from our city home was not something my parents put at the top of their priority list. So I spent many hours [...]
Posted in beauty ideal, body image, diet, eating disorder, fat, fat acceptance, food, obesity epidemic, skinny on February 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
That’s my thought for the day… I’m going to try eating and telling myself— this has nothing to do with what size you are. This is just eating. And, I think it really might be true. Because if thin people don’t eat more than fat people, if some people eat chocolate for breakfast, if the [...]
Posted in body image, fat, fat acceptance, self reflection, spirituality on February 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A person, and teacher, who I admire greatly, once told me that I had “one of the greatest senses of justice” he’d ever encountered. I start with this not in a self-congratulatory way, but to illustrate how intertwined oppression is. I began with sexism, seeing it very truely active in my own white girl life. [...]
Posted in body image, fat, fat acceptance, food, obesity epidemic on February 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Check this out
Its a great article pointing out the weak points in the mainstream FA movement… the way the author comes at it might be a bit off putting for some. But I encourage you to read it and take in the ways that intersectionality need to be remembered and utilized in the FA movement. [...]
Posted in adolescent girls, body image, diet, eating disorder, fat, fat acceptance, female sports, feminism, food, lacrosse, skinny on February 10, 2008 | No Comments »
So I start coaching middle school girls’ lacrosse team in a few weeks. Any advice for how to handle the social, emotional, aspects of my girls, this as it pertains to their body image, popularity etc? Thoughts, comments, anything would be welcome. I know this is a broad topic, but I really think that middle [...]
Posted in body image, diet, eating disorder, fat, fat acceptance, feminism, food, skinny on February 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Kate Harding post in October about complusive overeating, being overweight, FA rocked. I have a few points that overlap… respond….. expand….. check out the post in my “EPic” page up top
1) We’ve got to get over this set of rules, the good/bad thing, we’ve got going in this culture about food and lifestyle. It has [...]
Posted in body image, diet, fat, fat acceptance, food, skinny on February 6, 2008 | No Comments »
I have been brewing over this idea, of how being “healthy” is the requisite for one to be “good”. Especially when speaking about size, its hard to get past the argument of “fat people are healthy too!” This implies that skinny people are good just for being skinny and probably healthy.
But fat people must be [...]
Posted in body image, diet, eating disorder, fat, fat acceptance, feminism, food, obesity epidemic, skinny on February 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Well- I had quite the conversation last night about the above show. It all started when, after several comments had been made about how lazy/stupid/gross fat people were, I mentioned- “well actually, fat people are not necesarily less healthy than skinny people. They could be prefectly healthy…”
Oh and we were off the races. It was a [...]
