Good Girls Don’t Get Fat by Robyn Silverman My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book is absolutely amazing, and I strongly recommend it to everyone. Yes, I said everyone. If you are a human being who is reading this post/review, you live in a first-world society and you interact with females. You will benefit from […]
Book Review: Good Girls Don’t Get Fat
Updated Page — Fat Stuff
I updated the Warning: Fat Lady Ahead page (finally!) today. The resources page had to be split into a separate page.
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You know all those stories and worries about immunizations contributing to autism? Forget them. The doctor who wrote the study that started the scare back in 1998 has been charged with “fixing” the data. What’s more, the “study” only involved twelve patients! The second story is a very good article about how the obesity scare […]
Miscellany
I lost track of who originally linked to what, so I can’t credit them properly. But thank you to whoever they all were, anyway! Filed under “another reason I’m proud to be a homeschooler”: California court rules that private school can oust lesbian students. I do understand that it’s a private religious school and that […]
Europeans Continue Coming to Their Senses
About models and the effects of the media on body image in their populations, at least. Following Spain’s move last year that banned ultra-thin models from catwalks, France is acting. The “French parliament’s lower house adopted a groundbreaking bill Tuesday that would make it illegal for anyone—including fashion magazines, advertisers and Web sites—to publicly incite […]
NOLOSE 2008
And another announcement, this one at the request of Stefanie: The date has been set! Mark your calendars for NOLOSE ’08: September 26th through the 28th (Friday-Sunday). Meet us by the pool at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center in Northampton, Massachusetts for a weekend packed with fattastic fun, food, friends and other good stuff! We’re […]
Weight Discrimination As Prevalent as Racial Discrimination
I was going to ask, “This is news to whom?” Then I realized that it’s perfectly likely that people who aren’t fat really don’t realize how much size discrimination there is, while it’s impossible for the rest of us to avoid it. From the International Journal of Obesity, 4 March 2008: Discrimination against overweight people—particularly women—is as […]
Extreme Introvert Attack In Progress
Seriously. I didn’t even want to make a post, because it counts as interacting with the world. But hey, that’s the price of Blog365, right? I remembered those “Writer’s Block” prompts on LJ, and decided to try that as a starter. Who comes up with these things? One of them was about what you’d want […]
The Insanity of BMI
Kate Harding created this very cool slide show to show just how absurd it is to rely on body mass index to determine whether or not people are at a healthy weight. BTW—I did not “miss” blogging yesterday. February 29 was the only “day of rest” for Blog365, so I took it :-) It felt […]