Here’s part 6 in the Fat Wedding series, an exposé of the stresses and pressures on a bride to “look her best” (read: be skinny/ier) for her “big day.” You & Your Wedding – Mind & Body The introduction to the “mind & body” articles is “Get body and beauty confident with our special section.” [...]
All posts for the month February, 2008
Fat Wedding 6: “Bluff and Buff Your Way to a Better Bridal Body”
Posted by bigliberty on February 28, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/02/28/fat-wedding-6-bluff-and-buff-your-way-to-a-better-bridal-body/
Dangerous Waters – Part 1
Sometimes the hate is so virulent, it very much takes my breath away. I get scared, thinking of not only my safety, but the safety of my fat compatriots, and my future likely fat children. These are examples where people hate fat people so much (for often different reasons, or no reason at all) they [...]
Posted by bigliberty on February 26, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/02/26/dangerous-waters/
Fat Discrimination Inevitable in the Next Presidency
As a disclaimer: I identify with, most closely, the libertarian party (see my post on FA and libertarianism). Logically, I would not be supporting any of the current candidates for the presidency based on my views; each of them hold some kind of deal-breaking beliefs which makes it impossible for me to rubber-stamp them in. [...]
Posted by bigliberty on February 26, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/02/26/fat-discrimination-inevitable-in-the-next-presidency/
Fat Wedding, Part 5: Horror Show
This is a “pulse-taking” of bridal motivations to lose weight, how much they want to lose in what time-span, and what they say they need to do and why. I searched for “lose weight wedding” in Google. These are from hits on the first search resuls page. 43 Things.com – lose weight for the wedding [...]
Posted by bigliberty on February 25, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/02/25/fat-wedding-part-5-horror-show/
Fat Wedding, Part 4: “The Bride Wore Very Little”
Image from NYTimes.com This is going to be a short one in the Fat Wedding series. I read this NYTimes article last week and have been meaning to get around to talking about it. I’m picking out this article in particular NOT because it out-and-out rails against fat brides, or gives you a diet plan, [...]
Posted by bigliberty on February 25, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/02/25/fat-wedding-part-4-the-bride-wore-very-little/
Fox Outrage – Britney Spears
Now, I’m pretty tired of hearing people pick on and/or obsess about Britney Spears. For god’s sake, I’ve known my share of young women who have similar issues, and they aren’t that few and far in between. To hear the media report on her, you’d think she was the first young woman to be duped [...]
Posted by bigliberty on February 22, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/02/22/fox-outrage-britney-spears/
Throwing Off the Diet Cross
Sparked by both red3′s terrific post Changing the Conversation, by an actual conversation I had with my stepmother last night, a life-time thin person. Comparing Oppressions I observe much apologizing to other oppressed groups whenever someone tries to analogize fat oppression in a way those who still don’t quite accept fat oppression can understand (there’s [...]
Posted by bigliberty on February 21, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/02/21/throwing-off-the-diet-cross/
Ugh! Sorry about the look.
Sorry to everyone about how this looks. WordPress is f*ed right now and seems to have frozen on this awful theme. I can’t change it, urgh. I will get things righted as soon as WordPress starts responding again. EDIT: Okay, so I settled on a theme! I also tweaked the header a little. I kinda [...]
Posted by bigliberty on February 19, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/02/19/ugh-sorry-about-the-look/
“Her Chapter Was Cut” – Introduction
Author’s note: I am writing “Her Chapter Was Cut” as a serial, to be completed in ‘parts’ when I have an extra hour or two. The parts will be largely unedited, in the sense that they’ll be checked for grammar, spelling, and consistency, and published directly thereafter. Depending on the success of the serial, it [...]
Posted by bigliberty on February 19, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/02/19/her-chapter-was-cut-introduction/
The Good Ones…not so hard to find
Yesterday I had a long conversation with my to-be stepdaughter about FA. Being a rail-thin girl her whole life, some of the things I said she couldn’t relate to (like being taunted about one’s weight, or told to lose weight, and so forth). However, she was surprisingly “in” the conversation: when I cited the statistic [...]
Posted by bigliberty on February 19, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/02/19/the-good-onesnot-so-hard-to-find/
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