Take a lookie at this steaming pile of Healthistic smugness: Can Running Make Us Better Humans? Yes, it does suggest that avid exercisers are objectively better moral humans. Yes, it does suggest that fat people, who obviously don’t run, are objectively worse moral humans. The Tarahumara, he avers, know something that those of us living [...]
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“Better Human” = Not Obese!
Posted by bigliberty on September 20, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/09/20/better-human-not-obese/
Quick Hit – Does Your Body Belong to You?
An essay by A. Barton Hinkle on Reason.com Does Your Body Belong to You? Some nice quotes: “Perhaps you’ve noticed the trend among certain people these days,” wrote Neil Genzlinger in The New York Times the other day, “to decide that certain other people are not living acceptable lives and must be reformed.” Yes. There [...]
Posted by bigliberty on August 2, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/08/02/quick-hit-does-your-body-belong-to-you/
The Fucking Awesome Truth
Go read this fucking awesome post by Joanna at Dead of Winter: The Truth is Radical It will blow your fucking socks off. It’s so old-school FA, I’m all a-quiver like it’s 2007 again. Dammit, I miss Junkfood Science! Some candy: Instead of feeling liberated with the knowledge that I was not a failure or [...]
Posted by bigliberty on July 31, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/07/31/the-fucking-awesome-truth/
More Healthist Doublespeak
The language of Healthism is so intertwined with notions of moral value that we tend to take its dicta as fact. This can lead to unfortunate reporting of scientific results, both by researchers in ‘conclusion’ sections, and by health reporters. The most recent example of this is a study (h/t Regan at Dances with Fat) [...]
Posted by bigliberty on April 22, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/04/22/more-healthist-doublespeak/
The Fat Balancing Act
This is a post initiated by Raznay’s “Some Studies Show Fat Is Bad… Mmmkay?” on the never-ending oodles of studies trying in every which way to investigate just why “fat people are so disgusting.” It discusses the implications of the mindset which is generated by assumptions made in these studies — that is, how fat [...]
Posted by bigliberty on April 18, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/04/18/the-fat-balancing-act/
The Mia Freedman Debacle, or, Why Moral Panics Need Strawmen
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 [...]
Posted by bigliberty on May 13, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/05/13/the-mia-freedman-debacle-or-why-moral-panics-need-strawmen/
First Lady Releases Child Obesity Recommendations
…largely blames mothers for child’s obesity. cue shock and surprise Link to the AP article Some particular gems (note throughout these that the child omgbesity is referred to, without challenge, as “the problem”): Mrs. Obama has said she wants to help solve the problem in a generation so babies born today will come of age [...]
Posted by bigliberty on May 11, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/05/11/first-lady-releases-child-obesity-recommendations/
On Obesity Increasing Health Costs
This is related to the study linked to and commented on by Bri at Fat Lot of Good: Few things I noticed: The percentages skew towards the obese: Of the 11 247 participants examined in the 1999–2000 AusDiab study, data were available in the 2004–2005 follow-up survey for 6140 (54.1% female; mean age, 56.5 years). [...]
Posted by bigliberty on February 28, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/02/28/on-obesity-increasing-health-costs/
Eugenics Rears Its Ugly Head, Again
When you deliver your body to the State, expect the State to start: Making you do things Preventing you from doing things In other words, if you hand your body over to someone else, that someone else will claim the right to control it. Today I was rudely reminded that eugenics, one of the nasty [...]
Posted by bigliberty on January 22, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/01/22/eugenics-rears-its-ugly-head-again/
Quick Hit: The Myth of the Obesity Tsunami
A great Op-Ed is out today from Cato: The Myth of the “Obesity Tsunami” Here are the last three paragraphs, but I encourage you to read the whole piece. No Sanity Watchers’ points required! The findings of the English survey not only contradict the claim that we are in the midst of an obesity epidemic, [...]
Posted by bigliberty on January 19, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/01/19/quick-hit-the-myth-of-the-obesity-tsunami/
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