I Support You, Gabby....

Via bioxid @ Flickr. I want to say something about Gabourey Sidibe. The day after Gabby attended the Academy Awards, where she was up for Best Actress, the ever-edgy Howard Stern attacked her on his radio show. He and Robin Quivers only ridicule her because they are concerned for her health, of course....

I’m over Christina Hendricks....

Via Capital M @ Flickr. I admit, the title of this post may not be fair, or completely accurate, as I’ve got no beef with Christina Hendricks herself. Her ever-increasing fan club, however, turns me off. She is on the cover of New York’s Spring Fashion issue, modeling “the new lingerie-as-outerwear...

Female Olympians are Fat! (TW)...

That logo-person is lookin' a little blocky, doncha think? Okay, of course they’re not.  Although I’m sure some of these fit, muscular athletes would qualify as “obese” according to BMI calculations.  (Which are crap, in case you hadn’t picked up on that.) But shaming...

Eff Fat Suits...

Actress Poppy Montgomery isn’t fat. But her character in the Lifetime movie Lying to be Perfect is. Because no fat actresses were available for or interested in the role, Montgomery wears a fat suit to play magazine editor Nola Devlin. Reader Alison tipped us off to this cringe-inducing doozy;...

Harpy Droppings: for Your Reading Pleasu...

Via don2g @ Flickr. Via Muslimah Media Watch, NOW Lebanon interviews Arab feminists Dr. Omaira Abou-Bakr and Hoda al-Saadi, after a conference for Arab women in Beirut. Both women are members of an Egyptian NGO called Women and Memory. An Amish woman has been charged with failing to report her husband’s...

I’ve Got Something in My Eye...

I’m not a romantic, but clicking through this gallery gave me a warm feeling on this chilly fall day. The lovely Lesley of Fatshionista created the Museum of Fat Love as a way to showcase happy fat people in relationships. Contrary to popular belief, fat people are not unlovable. You don’t...

When fat-hatred and the wedding industri...

Facebook needs a "dislike" function. CarrieP from Big Fat Blog sent me the story of 34 year old bride-to-be Samantha Clowe, who died of heart failure this summer after following the low-calorie LighterLife diet for 11 weeks. Said Clowe’s mother, “She said she wanted respect at...

Too Little, Too Late?...

The oh-so-revolutionary imageGlamour magazine is, as Kate Harding put it, planning a “naked fat girl extravaganza” for its November issue. The editors sneaked a model with a belly bulge into their September issue, and are floored by the mostly positive responses. So I guess they’re...

The Dysmorphia of Modeling...

Let's not pretend that fashion models look like this. via allybeag @ flickr Curvy. Voluptuous. What a real woman looks like. Meat on the bones. Can we please stop it? My ire has been fully stoked after flipping through a copy of W magazine that my sister left at my parents’ house. Well, to...

To All The Girls Who’ve Never Femi...

To make a long story short, there’s this new body-image site, started by this woman. The philosophy of the site, ostensibly, is to have a sort of 101-level discussion about body image and self-worth, with (gulp) unmoderated comments. A commenter on this new site happened to click through the...

An Ode to Roseanne...

Once upon a time – in an America not yet gripped with fat-phobia, before the small screen was dominated by Pretty People, before the everyday realities of blue-collar families were invisible – there lived Roseanne. Reruns of this fabulous show have been keeping me up past my bedtime for...

Our Bodies, Our Neuroses...

Apologies, readers; what I am about to write is as much for me as it is for you. Sometimes I think we could learn as much about being feminists from our failures as we can from our successes. Let me confess one of my major feminist faults here.  I’ve been thinking of calling for a one-month armistice...