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Getting Married? How Are You Planning to Lose Weight Before Your Big Day? – Part 1

I got engaged this Christmas, and I’m fat. You might wonder what the connection is (beyond a trollish, “Heh, you mean fattie mcfatfat actually got a MAN NO WAY!!”). But as anyone who has entered this phase in her life and as much glanced at bridal magazines on the rack would know, there’s significant pressure [...]

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by bigliberty on February 11, 2008  •  Permalink
Posted in Fat Bias, Fat Hate, Fat Wedding, General Ignorance, Self-Esteem

Posted by bigliberty on February 11, 2008

http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/02/11/getting-married-how-are-you-planning-to-lose-weight-before-your-big-day-part-1/

“Wow, you wear it really well!”

Isn’t it funny how other people’s weight issues shine through when they’re kindly trying to apologize for yours? My latest trip to the doctor’s office – a physical, about three months ago – began with the ‘dreaded’ scale routine. I put ‘dreaded’ in single quotes because it is not so dreaded by me now. See, [...]

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by bigliberty on January 28, 2008  •  Permalink
Posted in Criminalizing Weight, Fat Bias, General Ignorance, Self-Esteem

Posted by bigliberty on January 28, 2008

http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/01/28/wow-you-wear-it-really-well/

Welcome to Big Liberty

Inspired by the Fat-o-sphere (though not always agreeing with its politics), I decided to make the first Fat-o-blog with a distinctively libertarian bent. Advocacy details: 1. “Health at Every Size” – HAES 2. Pro-logic (i.e., Anti-pretention) 3. Pro-freedom, pro-markets (i.e., Anti-fascist, anti-statist) 4. Anti-Baloney (i.e., #1, Anti-trolls)

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by bigliberty on January 24, 2008  •  Permalink
Posted in Fat Hate, General Ignorance, Self-Esteem

Posted by bigliberty on January 24, 2008

http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/01/24/big-girl-made-small/

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