Recently Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, has been attacked and concern-trolled over his weight; more specifically, that he has the utter gall to fat it around in the political arena. Even though Christie has said multiple times he’s not interested in running for president in the 2012 elections, it appears that trying to [...]
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Chris Christie’s Too Fat to be President! – Roundup
Posted by bigliberty on September 30, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/09/30/chris-christies-too-fat-to-be-president-roundup/
Harvest the Fatties as Horse Meat, and Other Gems of the Moral Panic
Today I saw one of the most inflammatory articles about the ‘obesity epidemic’ that I’ve seen in a while. It is an article that talks about how the ‘overweight and obese’ are more numerous than the hungry, planet-wide. What’s truly alarming is that the International Federation for the Red Cross, a well-known humanitarian group, is [...]
Posted by bigliberty on September 23, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/09/23/harvest-the-fatties-as-horse-meat-and-other-gems-of-the-moral-panic/
“Better Human” = Not Obese!
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 [...]
Posted by bigliberty on September 20, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/09/20/better-human-not-obese/
A Bad Day for Fat Liberty
And liberty, everywhere. In Dundee, Scotland, fat kids from a non-neglectful household are being put up for adoption by the state because their parents failed to ‘slim them down.’ Seriously. Fuck. I’ve written a few times about how the loss of the individual right to body autonomy and the moral panic over fat can lead [...]
Posted by bigliberty on September 7, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/09/07/a-bad-day-of-fat-liberty/
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/
On Mother’s Day 2011, Hate for Fat Moms in Abundance
I’ve been tweeting up a storm this Mother’s Day morning, all on the #thingsfatpeoplearetold hashtag. Not about anything particularly new, or some fat-hating piece released this morning, but rather on the messages about fat motherhood and mothering fat children I’ve heard in some context or another during the past few years. Full disclosure: I’m not [...]
Posted by bigliberty on May 8, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/05/08/on-mothers-day-2011-hate-for-fat-moms-in-abundance/
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/
We Do Not Revel In Fat
We do not revel in fat. We do not choose the physical difficulty, social ostracism, and too-small world as ends in themselves. We do not revel in fat. We are not gleeful when the numbers on the scale get bigger. We do not hide skinny photos in shame, evidence of an awkward era of less-than-perfection. [...]
Posted by bigliberty on January 9, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/01/09/we-do-not-revel-in-fat/
The Dieters’ Clusterfuck
It’s 11:52 a.m. You hear your tummy growling and, with satisfaction, remember that you brought your lunch today. Tuna salad sandwich with muenster cheese, sea-salt-and-cracked-pepper kettle-cooked potato chips, a couple homemade chocolate chip cookies, and Honest Tea. You decide to shoot off a few more emails before heading down to the shared office kitchen to [...]
Posted by bigliberty on July 24, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/07/24/the-dieters-clusterf/
The Obesity Epidemic is a Moral Panic, FTW!
A quick hit today, for anyone who’s still wondering whether the so-called ‘obesity epidemic’ is really a phenomenon rooted in concern over public health, or has reached the fever-pitch of a moral panic: (h/t Corpulent) Negative attitudes towards obese people are based on an emotional response of disgust, a new study suggests. Previous research had [...]
Posted by bigliberty on May 19, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/05/19/the-obesity-epidemic-is-a-moral-panic-ftw/
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