Bri King of Fat Lot of Good, fellow Fat Acceptance blogger and general advocate, recently came under fire as she found herself daring to push back against a so-called body image activist allowing virulently anti-fat comments on a recent post about feederism. Bri has since been asked to comment for articles in several Australian news [...]
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The Mia Freedman Debacle, or, Why Moral Panics Need Strawmen
Posted by bigliberty on May 13, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/05/13/the-mia-freedman-debacle-or-why-moral-panics-need-strawmen/
I’m bad at being succinct…
…but thank the Lords of Kobol there is someone out there who is brilliantly succinct: [SP is] (Mostly) educated white middle class women in hot competition to see who can flagellate themselves with their various privileges the hardest and/or fastest to prove how right-on they are. So help me, if I hear one more word [...]
Posted by bigliberty on August 27, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/08/27/im-bad-at-being-succinct/
Big dogs, and watchdogs, or: diversity makes us strong.
Hits count for a lot on the old internetz, but brother, they don’t count for everything. There’s something to be said for remaining critical and objective, but it’s not a trench in which to hide your biases while you fire at others. You’d think there’d be a low-tolerance for Baloney in the Fatosphere — I [...]
Posted by bigliberty on August 26, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/08/26/big-dogs-and-watchdogs-or-diversity-makes-us-strong/
Again.
Color-blind (sometimes called Race-blind) is a term describing activities undertaken and services provided without regard to the racial characteristics of those who participate in an activity or receive a service. [taken from here] How is this racist? Let’s find out. Racism, by its simplest definition, is the belief that race is the primary determinant of [...]
Posted by bigliberty on August 14, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/08/14/again/
Is this a form of plagiarism, or am I reading into it too much?
Hi all, I really need your help. Recently Carrie at ED Bites posted: “Overheight Epidemic.” Of course, many of you will remember my “The Tall Epidemic” post from March. While my post is longer, with many more links, hers seems like merely a summary of mine, with nearly identical phraseology in parts (especially in how [...]
Posted by bigliberty on June 10, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/06/10/is-this-a-form-of-plagiarism-or-am-i-reading-into-it-too-much/
Language as a Smoke-Screen
It’s long been accepted that political language is often filled with obfuscatory phraseology, meant to deceive people into believing one thing is true when, in fact, the actions behind the language imply the opposite. Vagueness in language is often employed in order to serve as a smoke-screen for deceit. For instance, take the following passage: [...]
Posted by bigliberty on April 8, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/04/08/language-as-a-smoke-screen/
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/
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/
Before you succumb to “authority”…
…remember that those in authority who are supposed to possess expertise may not. In fact, if a bias exists in general form in certain programs, that bias will ‘trickle down’ to the future professionals in that field. For instance, here’s a webpage maintained by medical doctors which ranks high on the Google search hits for [...]
Posted by bigliberty on March 8, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/03/08/before-you-succumb-to-authority/
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