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Showing posts with label fat hate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fat hate. Show all posts
Sunday, September 2, 2012
So in summation: Fat. Awesome.
Two great videos popped up on facebook today--of young women talking about fat.
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It Gets Fatter - Health & Fatness from It Gets Fatter on Vimeo.
Monday, August 22, 2011
Chelsea Settles: they're settling, and I'm unsettled
MTV is going to have a reality show with a plus-sized star:
(If you're not in the US the trailer might work for you here.)
Judging by the comments on the story, I shiver to think of the abuse this young woman is going to have to put up with, being in the public eye. Well, I guess she's willing to take that risk in order to launch a career. I just remember all the Mike and Molly stuff, it was so so nasty. How harmful to your self-esteem to put yourself in that firing line.
The catch line is "a new kind of heroine" but as her heroic journey appears to be focused on her weight loss... I'm a bit meh. If the show also has a good dollop of body-acceptance along the way that would be cool, but since she's trying to be a model, I le doubt it. I don't think this is going to do anything positive in terms of having a plus sized person on TV. Or even a person of color on TV. Over all this show seems like a train wreck.
Let's find something beautiful to counter its effect...
The show will follow the recent college grad as she arrives in Los Angeles from a small town near Pittsburgh, and will chronicle issues like her long-distance boyfriend, social phobias and weight loss [she's 324 pounds].
The docu-drama appears to be a viewer-friendly blend of reality dramas like “The Hills" and weight loss programs like “I Used to be Fat” or “The Biggest Loser.”
“Chelsea Settles” premieres with a special hour-long episode on Oct. 11 at 11:00 p.m ET, and you can watch the trailer here. [CNN]
(If you're not in the US the trailer might work for you here.)
The catch line is "a new kind of heroine" but as her heroic journey appears to be focused on her weight loss... I'm a bit meh. If the show also has a good dollop of body-acceptance along the way that would be cool, but since she's trying to be a model, I le doubt it. I don't think this is going to do anything positive in terms of having a plus sized person on TV. Or even a person of color on TV. Over all this show seems like a train wreck.
Let's find something beautiful to counter its effect...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
You don't gotta hate to make your point >:-(
I didn't blog yesterday and almost missed today! My mind is totally lost is my novel--we're getting closer to Writing Time! But I figured I must have something in draft form, and indeed I found this one from March that I was never comfortable posting. Here it is, and I've added some notes at the end.
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I don't read political vegan blogs, cause I don't identify with a lot of vegan politics. I try not to be "purist" about any of my opinions and isms, and things can just get too heated and bordering on judgmental in parts of Veganland.
But I follow some vegan food blogs because they tend to be friendlier, more laid back places. I don't read them every day, or even every week--I just pop in once a more or so. I don't even make the recipes, lol, cause I use cookbooks. I just like to see the pictures and read stories about their cats I guess.
One of my faves--I use her cookbooks all the time, especially for desserts--was telling a nice, happy, benign little story, and used this picture as a passing illustration:
It kind of bothers me. But I don't want to say anything there. I can't think of any way to phrase my feeling without sounding hostile, or it becoming A Thing. Every popular blogger has her Followers, and they will defend her to the death. We've all witnessed it, maybe we've been part of such defenses.
I just think you can make a point about McDonald's being unhealthy without using a fat image.
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It must have bothered me more than I realized cause I don't think I've been back since. Ugh. The fat hate--no thank-you. For more good writin's on that subject, see La Fokker, she regularly writes about it and just did a 9 part series on weight!
Around that time this cookbook author also started asking people to send her their stories about how switching over to veganism made them healthier/feel better, and she started getting into the China Diet stuff (of which there have been thorough critiques) and I just tuned out.
I'll always love her cookbooks cause she uses great ingredients, but... you know how it is... we tend to read information that will reinforce what we already believe, right? China Diet says veganism's best? Then that's the only study we'll talk about! Neal Barnard says veganism cures Diabetes? Bring it on!
Well, when it comes to a lot of my big beliefs, I consciously try not to only expose myself to What I Want to Hear. I try to read not just the idiots from The Other Side, but the best representatives, as JS Mill would have me do. And this tends to lead me awaaay from True Believers. And now I'm too extreme even for the cooking blogs! :-D Oh la. Good thing I never needed to be the cool kid.
Haley's chewing on the power couplings, I think she wants breakfast. Gotta go!
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I don't read political vegan blogs, cause I don't identify with a lot of vegan politics. I try not to be "purist" about any of my opinions and isms, and things can just get too heated and bordering on judgmental in parts of Veganland.
But I follow some vegan food blogs because they tend to be friendlier, more laid back places. I don't read them every day, or even every week--I just pop in once a more or so. I don't even make the recipes, lol, cause I use cookbooks. I just like to see the pictures and read stories about their cats I guess.
One of my faves--I use her cookbooks all the time, especially for desserts--was telling a nice, happy, benign little story, and used this picture as a passing illustration:
It kind of bothers me. But I don't want to say anything there. I can't think of any way to phrase my feeling without sounding hostile, or it becoming A Thing. Every popular blogger has her Followers, and they will defend her to the death. We've all witnessed it, maybe we've been part of such defenses.
I just think you can make a point about McDonald's being unhealthy without using a fat image.
____
It must have bothered me more than I realized cause I don't think I've been back since. Ugh. The fat hate--no thank-you. For more good writin's on that subject, see La Fokker, she regularly writes about it and just did a 9 part series on weight!
Around that time this cookbook author also started asking people to send her their stories about how switching over to veganism made them healthier/feel better, and she started getting into the China Diet stuff (of which there have been thorough critiques) and I just tuned out.
I'll always love her cookbooks cause she uses great ingredients, but... you know how it is... we tend to read information that will reinforce what we already believe, right? China Diet says veganism's best? Then that's the only study we'll talk about! Neal Barnard says veganism cures Diabetes? Bring it on!
Well, when it comes to a lot of my big beliefs, I consciously try not to only expose myself to What I Want to Hear. I try to read not just the idiots from The Other Side, but the best representatives, as JS Mill would have me do. And this tends to lead me awaaay from True Believers. And now I'm too extreme even for the cooking blogs! :-D Oh la. Good thing I never needed to be the cool kid.
Haley's chewing on the power couplings, I think she wants breakfast. Gotta go!
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