December 2011
61 posts
“[TRIGGER WARNING: Rape] Fat women are treated as utterly undesirable in our...”
– Jaclyn Friedman, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety (via khaleesi)
Kellogg's has a scale that gives compliments →
maggiemunkee:
living400lbs:
I read about a new Kellogg’s Special K ad, featuring a scale that doesn’t tell you your weight. Instead, it gives you a compliment.
Gee, does this sound like a Yay! Scale to you?
There are at least two versions that I’ve seen. One is women in their bathrooms, being all nervous. They all have beautiful pedicures. Then they’re happy! Whee!
The other has a bunch of...
“Finally, if your solution to sexist abuse on the internet is, “Just don’t let...”
– “You Are Awful, Too,” Kate Harding
Click through to read the whole thing; it’s great.
(via unknowablewoman)
Kellogg's has a scale that gives compliments
I read about a new Kellogg’s Special K ad, featuring a scale that doesn’t tell you your weight. Instead, it gives you a compliment.
Gee, does this sound like a Yay! Scale to you?
“I really wanted to show, hey, you can be different and OK; you can be fat and...”
– Roseanne Barr, discussing her show on “America in Primetime.” (watch episode)
Re watching this show now has got me thinking a lot more about so many things. I watched this show at a very young age, but was too young to fully grasp how important it was.
(via fatfashion)
<3 Roseanne
(via...
“You think it’s a compliment to say you prefer “plumper” women; you think it’s...”
– http://www.raisingmyboychick.com/2011/02/dear-doods-i-dont-care-if-you-want-to-fck-me/
Fat People Must Be Overeating, Right?
[S]everal tenets of our culture that so many people believe, but few people articulate:
Everyone will naturally have a “normal” ratio between their height and weight. (Example: BMI 25-29.9)
Anyone who has a greater or lesser ratio than “normal” is doing something (overeating, not eating, not exercising, overexercising, whatever) to make it happen.
Therefore, anyone who has a greater or lesser...
“Racism, like all forms of bigotry, is what it claims to oppose—victimology. The...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ron Paul’s Shaggy Defense
Besides being unapologetically racist, Ron Paul is just as mendacious and venal as any other politician, kids. He vehemently defended the racist newsletters and repeated their bullshit until it became politically inconvenient for him. He’s just a total...
Poor nutrition and a sedentary lifestyle do cause...
marfmellow:
But don’t you realize that fat is unhealthy? By Kate Harding
microaggressions:
“It’s okay to have a vagina. It’s not okay to be a vagina,” says an close male friend to me after I remarked that a TV show might be too violent for me to continue watching. “What makes you think it’s okay to say that to anyone?” I ask. “It’s a common colloquialism I use,” he says. I feel utterly betrayed, hurt, and silenced by this.
My response to “It’s okay to have a...
“The screenshot you sent is all wrong. It doesn’t let me play the video. It seems...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
““Excuse me while I throw this down, I’m old and cranky and tired of hearing the...”
– Hanne Blank (via thestoutorialist)
clientsfromhell:
Client: What is the opposite of Z?
Me: … of Z?
Client: Yeah, I’m doing the ctrl+Z thing and I went too far back in time. You know that scene in the Time Machine where he goes too far back in time?
Me: Yeah.
Client: Like that.
The (Confederate) Flag and the (Black) Student →
an excerpt from an excellent post at theafroqueerizedbeekeeper:
Slavery was a system of abject and absolute injustice (Read: It was not benevolent or paternal or Christanizing or whatever else Ron Paul or Michele Bachman are talking these days).
Slavery eventually ended (Read: Five centuries after its start–and only after small and large revolts by black slaves on four continents, and political...
When we say "rape jokes" are bad or saying the...
greaterthanlapsed:
This is not a call for institutionalized censorship, you ignorant jack-asses. It’s a call for self-awareness, empathy, kindness, and possible even **gasp** self-censorship.
You have the right to say whatever you want. However, I have the right to think you are an asshole.
For fuck’s sake. Why is this all so hard?
I swear, people will fight harder against being a decent...
Another way in which I am a nerd:
madgastronomer:
thelefthandedwife:
kiriamaya:
Whenever I hear the name “Kardashian”, I think of Cardassians.
thank god I’m not the only one
It to me quite a while to figure out that people weren’t saying “Cardassians.”
This. So much.
“Fat people who love themselves scare the shit out of people who don’t love...”
– Tigress Osborn (via boybitch)
Things I have learned as a fat person (warnings:... →
inautumn-inkashmir:
Fat people should never admit that they need sustenance, much less like it. Admitting that you enjoy food while fat will cause the non-fat to criticize you for being unable to control yourself around food. Especially if you have a sweet tooth or like potato chips. Things like that are only acceptable if you are not fat.
Fat people are unable to have eating disorders because...
Fighting the war on Pagan religious symbols with...
From Slacktivist:
So during the holiday tree lighting ceremony in the Statehouse, these proudly offended morons interrupted a performance by a children’s choir to strike a blow against pluralism:
After Chafee lit the “holiday” tree, a few dozen carolers interrupted a performance by a children’s chorus to sing “O Christmas Tree.” …
“He’s trying to put our religion down,” said Ken Schiano of...
Women Saying No? How Can This Possibly Be?
From Sady Doyle at Tiger Beatdown:
Here’s where we appeal to that “lived experience” thing. Because: Have you ever had a guy come up to you — on the street, in a bar, whatever — and just straight-up say, “hey, I wanna talk to you?” Happens all the time, right? Happens to women, all the time. But have you ever just straight-up said, “no?” Not “no, I have a boyfriend,” or “no, I’m busy,” or “no, I...
clientsfromhell:
I had a project designing wedding invitations for a client and his very religious wife-to-be. They very clean cut - they explained there would be no alcohol at the wedding and hoped I could (subtly) include that information in the invitation. They explained it was for moral reasons and I didn’t inquire further. Later, I was at a bar when I saw my client.
Making out with a...
“Racism is so deeply entrenched and pervasive in many societies that everyday...”
– minh-ha t. pham (via nuestrahermana)
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures...”
– The Great Gatsby (via wilwheaton)
the millenium kids: Racial Coding in 'The Muppets' →
karnythia:
maevele:
nathanfisher:
Since I can safely assume that very few people other than myself are interested in decoding the racialism in The Muppets, I’ll keep this very to the point.
As I posted before, the above is a picture of the villains in the new Muppets film.
As soon as I saw these characters, especially Piggy’s counterpart in the previews, I was worried and looking for...
