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Stop calling your body 'midsize,' says Internet. But it's less clear about why you shouldn't use the t
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(Style)
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... by people who would otherwise fit under the definition of “plus-size” as a way to distance themselves from fatness. While others, in the vein of Skinner’s commenters, derided the use of “midsize” as skinny ...
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Created on 29 June 2021
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The Racist Origins Of Fatphobia
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(Feminism)
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... the matter. In Virey’s estimation, “negresses” were apt to grow large in general. And the so-named “Hottentot” women proved a representative example of this propensity to fatness. In his own Histoire Naturelle ...
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Created on 10 October 2019
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How Jameela Jamil Is Helping The Fight Against Fatphobia
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(Feminism)
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... I’m always in search of progress and not perfection. Our society is having to unlearn all of this hyper-normalized anti-fatness. It’s so vital that those of us with the biggest platforms do our part in ...
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Created on 12 August 2019
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Nike's Plus-Size Mannequins For Inclusivity Met With Fat-Phobic Outrag
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(Style)
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... women will seek to emulate the shape, otherwise facing disappointment when what they’re trying on just doesn’t sit right. And whether this is extreme skinniness, extreme fatness, or anything in the middle, ...
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Created on 10 June 2019
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"Shrill" And The Journey to Fat Bitchdo
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(TV)
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... a joke.
I really truly wanted to love “This is Us,” but I couldn’t get past the fact that the initial major storyline for Kate was weight loss, and even though she had a romantic prospect, their fatness ...
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Created on 27 March 2019
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10 Podcasts To Empower You Through Valentine’s Day (And Every Other Day)
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(Entertainment)
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... Sophie Carter-Kahn, rejects the ways the body positive movement has been co-opted by capitalism and examines the intersection of feminism and fatness. They talk personal experiences and pop culture while ...
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Created on 30 January 2019
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Virgie Tovar's "You Have The Right To Remain Fat" Shows The Importance Of Fat Activism Over Body Positivi
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(Books)
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... treat, and cuts right through the BS—the real junk we’re being force-fed.
Tovar was made aware of her fatness at the wee age of four, from a preschool bully (Joshua, what’s good?) informing her why he ...
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Created on 14 August 2018
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16 Feminist Comedians To Watch Instead Of Yet Another Straight White Dude
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(Entertainment)
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... feminism, fatness, and comedy. She also tours around the world to comedy festivals to share her sassy take on feminism.
Cameron Esposito
Cameron’s most recent special Rape Jokes reclaimed rape ...
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Created on 10 August 2018
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How I'm Reclaiming The Word "Fa
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(Feminism)
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... socioeconomic status and race and gender and sexuality all factor into how they interact with the world, how they embrace their fatness, how they reclaim “fat” as a descriptor and fight back against the ...
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Created on 18 May 2018
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On Being Fat In Ways White Girls Don’t Understand
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(Feminism)
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... of fatness, blackness, and womanhood. But the combination does, indeed, matter.
The confluence of fatness (which is, in this culture, asexual), blackness (which is dumb and animalistic), and womanness ...
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Created on 08 February 2018
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On "Swipe Culture" And Dating While Fa
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(Living)
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... physically. You’re also lazy, stupid and perhaps even unable to perform sexually. The judgement attached to size is horrendously unfair at both ends of the scales, but fatness is something we’re told is ...
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Created on 29 January 2018
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“IS THAT MISS JAY”: Fangirling At NYFW Torrid Spring 2018 Collection
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(Style)
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... There’s something to be said about such a famous plus-sized brand involving so many corsets, a garment literally designed to disguise fatness, but we’ll skip that for now.
There was a brief pause, and ...
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Created on 18 September 2017
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13.
Notes On Frump: A Style
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(Style)
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... of sensibilities.” I’d add that because of anti-Jewishness, anti-fatness, and anti-gayness, all of these communities have been more oppressed by SAW sensibility than others and have been forced to find ...
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Created on 17 August 2017
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Why Does No One Seem to Care that Plan B May Not Work for Fat People?
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(Feminism)
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... profitable to sell them something that will make them lose weight. To rely upon the stigma of fatness to invalidate their health concerns; to tell them that their medical issues are their fault because ...
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Created on 18 September 2016
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An Open Letter To Skinny People
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(Entertainment)
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... by skinny people, average sized people, hell even other fat people. In this particular case, it seems like the hatred of fatness collided with misogyny to create this useless group and these hateful little ...
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Created on 06 April 2016
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Margaret Cho's New Album 'American Myth' Song List And Commentary: BUST Exclusive Premie
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(Music)
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... is a glorious and joyous celebration of my body and all female fatness- a love song to my fat. Beautiful in L.A. I have always wanted to cover this song, by the amazing Garrison Starr, and she helped ...
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Created on 02 March 2016
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10 Bathing Suits To Bust Out This Memorial Day Weekend
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(Style)
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... We think the distinction of size "others" people and marginalizes fatness, which is not fair. Fat-kini, skini-kini, whatever-kini —love your body and dress it in the lycra style that suits you best! All ...
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Created on 22 May 2015
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Uhm, No: What This Salon Writer Got Very Wrong About Weight Loss and Body Image
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(Feminism)
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... that maybe the reason she was obsessing about fatness is because a woman’s value hinges almost totally upon physical appearance? Can we mention that this is so pervasive that most young girls at middle ...
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Created on 25 February 2014
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Today in Bullshit: Nicole Kidman Gains Weight to Play "Trashy" Rol
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(Movies)
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The bullshit: it never stops.
Lee Daniels, director of the upcoming drama The Paperboy, recently admitted that he asked leading lady Nicole Kidman to gain weight for her role in order to—wait for it, ...
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Created on 02 October 2012
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On Being Unapologetically Fat
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(Feminism)
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... a "good place," and maybe I'm unhealthy in my fatness. But why is that anyone else's business? It isn't.
I was watching the Biggest Loser, the weight-loss reality show on NBC, as a contestant in her early ...
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Created on 29 October 2010
