This is in response, primarily, to a great comment I received privately, and secondarily to proxy comment-boards (go ahead and comment if you like, I encourage you to. I simply do not have the time and energy in my life at this point to moderate potentially numerous comments which I know will at the least [...]
All posts for the month March, 2008
On Color-blindness, as interpreted individually
Posted by bigliberty on March 27, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/03/27/on-color-blindness-as-interpreted-individually/
Baloney.
I hope it’s obvious why this piece of propaganda only seeks to promote hatred and divide us all. Anyone who promotes it as some kind of parsing tool is a hateful individual, regardless of what they say. In another age that would be obvious. But in this era of doublespeak and baloney surrounding these issues, [...]
Posted by bigliberty on March 25, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/03/25/baloney/
This is going to be unpopular…
…but it has to be said. This kind of infighting is going to stymie the movement. It’s going to split it and make it weak. It likely already is, if the comments to that post are any clue. I don’t understand where that kind of vitriolic racism has come from, but it’s got to stop. [...]
Posted by bigliberty on March 21, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/03/21/this-is-going-to-be-unpopular/
Follow-up (on Dr. King’s words and FA)
This started as a comment on the last post I made, but I figured it needed its own spot. I sincerely hope everyone understood what I meant by this particular quote from my last post: Debunking the idea that some Ugly, automatically inferior group, even exists, is a difficult task that hasn’t been taken up [...]
Posted by bigliberty on March 21, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/03/21/follow-up-on-dr-kings-words-and-fa/
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
I’ve been listening to the Good/Bad fattie debate with a bit of detachment. I haven’t thrown my hat into the ring yet, since I feel the Good/Bad division is a historically natural human response, a sort of boundary/structure-seeking inherent in finding one’s place within a group. Perhaps my detachment comes from not feeling any need [...]
Posted by bigliberty on March 20, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/03/20/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/
Shoring Up
When I was first reading the FA blogs, I read somewhere (possibly written by Rachel, fillyjonk, or meowser) that many people who come to FA from fat-bigoted cultures/families or eating-disordered pasts become angry when they learn just how far over their eyes the wool had been pulled, their whole lives. It’s not just a matter [...]
Posted by bigliberty on March 19, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/03/19/shoring-up/
BeingGirl: For girls, by liars
This morning, Harriet Brown had a wonderful post to which I felt compelled to respond upon a bit more digging. “BeingGirl: For girls, by girls,” a site hosted by Proctor & Gamble, is one of those places that draws in teenage girls with cutesy graphics and shitty writing (by the staff), and better writing which [...]
Posted by bigliberty on March 15, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/03/15/beinggirl-for-girls-by-liars/
Quick “duh” hit
Special attention should be given to portion sizes, which have increased significantly over the past two decades (http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/portion/index.htm). Though there are no empirical studies to show a causal relationship between increased portion sizes and obesity, there are studies showing that controlling portion sizes helps limit calorie intake, particularly when eating calorie-dense foods (foods that are [...]
Posted by bigliberty on March 13, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/03/13/quick-duh-hit/
Massholians — stand up and be counted
Fellow Massholians, proud payers of the government of Taxachusetts, pahk your cahr and get to the wicked Statehouse to testify for your pissar fellow body-diverse Minutemen! Details via Kate Harding, quotes from Marilyn Wann, and how to get in touch with Ms. Wann here. And quotes from Paul Campos’ book The Obesity Myth, to inspire [...]
Posted by bigliberty on March 12, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/03/12/massholes-stand-up-and-be-counted/
Eat right = Eat thin = Starve
Food is bad for you. You shouldn’t have too much fat, sugar, salt, carbohydrates, and meat. You should “eat right” they say, before or after the qualification that this is necessarily related to losing weight, gaining health, or both. “Eating right” means there must exist such a thing as “eating badly.” “Too much,” they say. [...]
Posted by bigliberty on March 11, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/03/11/eat-right-eat-thin-starve/
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