Plastic Porpoise —
After Lane Bryant shit the bed (which is a saying I’ve encountered twice now and find utterly hilarious), they felt the full force of a Fatty Flood.
Well, a day later (and a dollar short?) they’ve issued a formal apology from the VP of Marketing, Jay Dunn. I recommend commenting because if Mr. Dunn is reading, we want him to hear us all. If you’re still wary of patronizing a store that so easily antagonized its base clientele, do what I did and use a fake address and your spam email (you know you have one).
Next week, the Fierce, Freethinking Fatties will devote a Theme Week to discussing Lane Bryant’s clusterfuck and backpedaling in-depth.
But for now, the question I want to ask is, what do you think of the apology?
Energy in/energy out argument.
ARGUMENT: “If you eat less and exercise more, you will loose weight.”
COUNTERPOINTS :
1. Humans tend towards a certain weight range:
- Some people call this range our set point. Others call it the settling point.
- The number of fat cells in your body is fairly constant throughout your adult life. You can increase the number, but not decrease it.
- Of those who do lose weight, the majority regain any weight lost within five years.
- The heritability of weight is similar to that of height. Read more…
Tee Hee MeMe —
This is just an invitation to fuck with MeMe Fucking Roth.
On a Facebook Fan page, you can leave comments and it will filter these into comments from the page’s creator or comments from the fans (or both).
So, I’ve been a “fan” of MeMe for a while now and I’ve noticed that if I respond to her comments, she deletes them ASAP. For example, I just posted this one and it will be gone before day’s end.
But if you click “Just Others” you’ll notice that there’s a pretty decent amount of MeMe hate going on, which makes me wonder how many of her “fans” are just there to fuck with her.
I know I am.
Late Nights, Ocean Delights
Wow.
You guys were busy working on the revolution and pushing the barriers, while I was once again counting sea shells and drinking copious amounts of white wine while listening to waves crash ashore.
See me down there. I'm the one with the wine.
Only in Japan —
And now as a way to break up this drama-full week, I present to you a monkey chimpanzee riding a Segway.
*UPDATE* I heartily apologize to any chimpanzees or monkeys who may have been offended by my misclassification of your species. I should not have rushed to post this explosive documentary without first verifying the validity of the claims made within the video. I shall now perform Seppuku to atone for my grave mistake.
Dark Horse —
Ya know what? I’m gonna do it.
I’m gonna just come out and be the Defender of Dieters.
To have one of the Founding Mothers of Fat Acceptance label me as such was a pretty harsh blow. It kinda hurt. I mean, fuck, Marilyn, this post was intended to celebrate your openness and inclusion of all Fat Acceptance advocates, regardless of weight or personal experience.
I don’t know where I disregarded your positions or “describe[d] that non-communication in violent terms.” I’ve sent you a private email and I hope for clarification because it was never my intention for this post to be anything other than gushing fanboy thank you for speaking to me on Friday.
Of course, this wouldn’t be the first Homage Gone Wrong I’ve written, so I shouldn’t be all that surprised.
I guess I should rethink that Roast of President Obama I’ve been organizing.
Indentured Servant —
After I was banished from Facebook for wishing undignified deaths on Yay-Rapists, I received a message from Marilyn Wann asking me to clarify my intentions as a Fat Activist (which isn’t the first time).
I explained that I had been reverse trolling fat hate groups and attempted to do the same with the rape “joke” group, but let my anger get the best of me and posted some pretty harsh things.
She said she understood and suggested that we talk some time about this and other things, and she gave me her phone number.
Marilyn Wann gave me her phone number.
That’s like… that’s like Queen Elizabeth giving Rowan Atikinson her digits.
I don’t mean Marilyn Wann wants me (who could blame her, really?), but I wouldn’t expect someone as influential as her handing out her number to just any weirdass goofball.
(Incidentally, my wife thinks that Rowan Atkinson, this Rowan Atkinson…
… is sexy in one season of “Blackadder”…
…and I’m not sure what to make of that.)
On Being a Fat Accepting Mom
(Cross-posted from my blog because that’s where I accidentally started writing)
The Fatosphere’s been around for a while and it’s got its share of parents out there; Family Feeding Dynamics is becoming one of my favorite blogs; The Well-Rounded Mama was a hit with me from the start; and I know there are also parents right here on the FFF blog who write. It’s not easy to find time to blog amidst breakfasts, lunches, dinners, hugs, pretending, stories, time-outs, walks, visits to the parks, drives to daycare, and bedtime. My writing has been a lot less than I initially intended and I’m grateful anyone’s still reading.
Should we say “no weight loss evangelism” for FFFFeed?
When Shannon and I first came up with the idea of the FFFFeed, our main idea was to not police. We didn’t want to purposefully exclude people because they say controversial things.
(We’re open to hearing suggestions about what blogs should go in which feed category’s. Moving a blog from Fat Acceptance to Fierce is different that deleting them from the the feeds completely.)
We came up with some simple guidelines for the feed. Any blog on the feed has to include posts about ONE of the three parts of Fat Acceptance; a body positive perspective, fat science skepticism, or fat rights.
Here at FFF we support critical thinking and open discussion. The feed is meant to support the various perspectives within Fat Acceptance. We think that each person should define what fat acceptance means for themselves and we support those within fat acceptance talking openly about their experiences. Well, for many people weight loss is a part of their fat experience, whether past or present.
But there is a part of me that thinks promoting weight loss FOR OTHERS doesn’t fit on the feed. It’s one thing to say “I want to loose weight” or “This is my weight loss experience” and another to say “You should lose weight.”
So, I’m inclined to include the guideline of “no weight loss evangelism” for the feed.
Like I said at the beginning, I am VERY reticent about deciding to exclude or remove someone from the FFFFeed unless there is CLEAR CASE AND CAUSE. But the very nature of having guidelines for the FFFFeed means that some people will be excluded. I just think that’s another reason why it’s so important that the guidelines are clear.
So, we’d like to get your input. Do you think we should add this new guidelines to the feed?
Drive-Thru Activism —
I had a weird experience on Saturday night in the Taco Bell drive-thru, but it ultimately turned out pretty positive.
As I pull into the parking lot, I notice three young women standing near the side of the road, which is fairly unusual for this part of town at this time of night. The drive-thru line is long, so I pull up and wait, when I notice the three women run toward the drive-thru.
I think nothing of it until one of them reaches my window and says, “Hi there.”
