Comments on: Headless Fatties Fight Back

By: Tormoz

Tormoz — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:41:58 +0000

Ok! Best regards!
Is cool and to say hello.
I really enjoyed your page.

By: pearlandopal

pearlandopal — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:51:15 +0000

I think this may be my first comment here, but I’ve been lurking for a while. Hi!

I was thinking about the headless fatty phenomenon this morning. One reason it might be so prevalent is sheer photographic laziness: photographers are expected to get model releases for recognizable people in images [that will be used commercially]. I don’t know for sure, but my thought was that newspapers/media outlets might not require a release for bodies without faces – after all, that could be anyone’s gut, right? So maybe it’s a lot easier to snap a photo of some stranger’s midsection than it is to get a model release from a person who might have very good reasons for being hesitant to have their photo taken for commercial use.

By: Nomie

Nomie — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:51:04 +0000

I sent mine in. I’ve been in such a bad mental place as regards my weight – personal crisis + grad school = gaining a shit-ton of weight – but I’ve been trying to get to terms with it now. So I’ve started, you know, buying clothes that are a lot bigger and whatever, but I still could not handle myself at this size. And my sister sent me a picture from her last round of shots and said “you’re GORGEOUS.” So I sent that one to Kate. And now I’m there. “Morbidly obese,” with a goofy look on my face, but… looking mighty fine.

By: Chiara

Chiara — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:10:45 +0000

You can do it, Cindy! I did, and I’m a big fraidy cat.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:50:27 +0000

I wish I had the courage.

By: lactose intolerant lisa

lactose intolerant lisa — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:26:37 +0000

I loved that slideshow. It was amazing! BMI is so impersonal; how can we even apply it to such a range of bodies? It seems ridiculous to define these unique, amazing people based on such an impersonal number.

By: Kate Harding

Kate Harding — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:36:41 +0000

Thanks, Mo Pie!

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:15:51 +0000

I'm also working on a long, slow project called the Body Morphology Project that is on Wikimedia's Creative Commons. I'm having a terrible time getting volunteers to convert to volunteers who submit photos (or send them to me). The project index is here, and you can see the picture poses I'm asking for. The aim of this project is to provide as wide a section of human bodies as possible. It's for men and women and our third/fourth/x-ed gendered siblings, and you don't have to submit a full set of pictures. I'm happy also to take submissions by e-mail at malcolm.gin@gmail.com. I am, by the way, the Malcolm-who-is-Hanne-Blank's-partner, not the other one. :)

By: whyme63

whyme63 — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:59:22 +0000

The Illustrated BMI project also serves to remind us that people (I’m looking at you, celebrities!) Amanda, Margaret, and Mindy are, in fact, not “normal” sized, but underweight, if you are going to adhere to the standards of the almighty BMI.

By: K

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:05:05 +0000

This is the greatest thing.