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 [...]
All posts in category Libertarianism
Quick Hit – Does Your Body Belong to You?
Posted by bigliberty on August 2, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/08/02/quick-hit-does-your-body-belong-to-you/
BMI of Every US Citizen to be Tracked
Obesity Rating for Every American Must Be Included in Stimulus-Mandated Electronic Health Records, Says HHS New federal regulations issued this week stipulate that the electronic health records–that all Americans are supposed to have by 2014 under the terms of the stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed last year–must record not only the traditional measures [...]
Posted by bigliberty on July 15, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/07/15/bmi-of-every-us-citizen-to-be-tracked/
Predictions: American Health Care and Fat People
Now that the ‘reform’ of Healthcare, i.e., delivering 1/6th of the American economy into the hands of government, has passed the House and been signed by the President, I want to make a prediction or two. These predictions are nothing new for this blog, and if you’re interested in my more general thoughts of the [...]
Posted by bigliberty on March 24, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/03/24/prediction-american-health-care-and-fat-people/
On Being Pro-Liberty and Anti-Dieting
elizebeth has a post today, in which she says: The conflict comes when I think about suggesting that path for others. It’s one thing for me to say “I’M” fine with accepting my fate…but am I promoting the idea that others should too? What if the science is suggesting that being naturally fat ALSO means [...]
Posted by bigliberty on March 8, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/03/08/on-being-pro-liberty-and-anti-dieting/
Case-building: Making Fatties the Deviants
In every good moral panic one needs a deviant group on which to blame the ills of the current moral (financial, political) crisis. Since moral panics seek to fix some broken part of society, it makes sense that a group of people is singled out to symbolize the ills associated with the crisis. Since the [...]
Posted by bigliberty on November 27, 2009
http://biglibertyblog.com/2009/11/27/case-building-making-fatties-the-deviants/
WSJ on Fat People: Many Greats in History
I have a few other feeds that I maintain, one which is a news feed. I’m very used to my news feed having little to do with fat in it (though when it does appear, it’s reasonably positive). But a Wall Street Journal piece poking fun at people who demonize fatties? It sounded too good [...]
Posted by bigliberty on November 20, 2009
http://biglibertyblog.com/2009/11/20/wsj-on-fat-people-many-greats-in-history/
Government Healthcare is Bad for Fat People
Why? Read the links on this page. While employers can currently establish plans that incentivize weight loss, it’s not illegal and/or will not cause your taxes to go up to decide not to participate in such programs. Additionally, there is some measure of direct voting by employees — complaining about the plan, leaving the business [...]
Posted by bigliberty on November 4, 2009
http://biglibertyblog.com/2009/11/04/government-healthcare-is-bad-for-fat-people/
Chris Christie and the Future of Fat Politicians
Here’s a quick hit, a really fair and fat-positive article on Reason.com: http://reason.com/archives/2009/11/02/a-big-fat-political-mistake The comments are a mix of fatphobic and reasonable.
Posted by bigliberty on November 2, 2009
http://biglibertyblog.com/2009/11/02/chris-christie-and-the-future-of-fat-politicians/
Rush Limbaugh Spreads ‘Fat is Genetic’ Message
On Rush Limbaugh’s radio show today, he quoted at length from the Newsweek article that obesity is genetic, as heritable as height. Millions of people listen to this show every day. I know many of my readers here don’t agree with Rush’s politics, but spreading the message that fat has been shown to be as [...]
Posted by bigliberty on September 11, 2009
http://biglibertyblog.com/2009/09/11/rush-limbaugh-spreads-fat-is-genetic-message/
Obesity Tax proposed in New York
Governor Paterson proposes ‘Obesity Tax,’ a tax on non-diet sodas Continuing in the theme of creating a deviant class out of fat people, Governor Paterson of New York will now punish a fat person’s perceived deviance by taxing that fat person’s apparently precious full-sugar sodas. Gov. Paterson, as part of a $121 billion budget to [...]
Posted by bigliberty on December 15, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/12/15/obesity-tax-proposed-in-new-york/
Fat Liberation- the HAES files: a tale of two billboards healthateverysizeblog
- definatalie: Image - a plus size mannequin torso. (author unknown)
- queerfatfemme: Nomy Lamm from Sins Invalid, April 2011. Nomy is... (author unknown)
- Work-a-money-buy-gum* I asked Chris to take my outfit picture... (author unknown)
- Fat Studies articles free downloads! Charlotte Cooper
- Sure Could Use a Little Good News danceswithfat
- The Fatosphere
- the HAES files: a tale of two billboards healthateverysizeblog
- Baby Led Weaning, “starves children and leads to underweight!!” katja
- Fat Studies articles free downloads! Charlotte Cooper
- We Stand JoGeek
- Ripping off the Band-Aid Not Blue at All
-
What You've Said
nostringsstyle on What this fat girl’s bee… tehomet on Fat Double Standards bigliberty on Fat Double Standards Alexandra Fratkin on Fat Double Standards tehomet on Show Your Fatty Papers
