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The Hannah Montana Effect

January 30th, 2008

Originally uploaded by mo pie Although we’re definitely not done with all the meta media aftermath (and Rachel has a good roundup today), I thought I’d take a break to share an actual post! About something else! Are you shocked? I was, when I read today that Miley Cyrus, the 15-year-old star otherwise known as [...]

Filed under: American Idol, Celebrities, Feminism, Magazines, Meta, Miley Cyrus, Music, TV, Tidbit | 24 Comments »

Greenroom Discussion: Now With Video

January 29th, 2008

This link will take you straight to a .swf file of the post-show greenroom discussion.

Filed under: Meta, Tidbit, Video | 36 Comments »

Aftermath Part 1

January 29th, 2008

Originally uploaded by mo pie There are tons of great responses to our appearance on the Morning Show with Mike and Juliet. And I’m glad a lot of them are challenging what I thought was the most ridiculous statement on the show, MeMe Roth’s assertion that there would be “public outrage” if we were going [...]

Filed under: Fat Positive, Fatism, Feminism, Media, Meta, Personal, TV | 39 Comments »

Big Fat Media Sweep

January 28th, 2008

Check out MoPie’s national television debut on the Mike and Juliet Show! She makes the case for acceptance and less judgment without making grand generalizations (*cough*). Rachel from F-Word also nails the point home, plus, bonus, we get to watch their cute husbands too! Look at the fat girls who are married! That never happens! [...]

Filed under: Advocacy, Media, Meta, TV, Video | 63 Comments »

The Morning Show With Mike And Juliet

January 28th, 2008

As I’m writing this, I’m getting ready to head over to the studio. So hello, people in the future! Did you see the show? What did you think? I’ll report back and let you know what the experience was like for me. (And to anyone who may be visiting after seeing the show, you may [...]

Filed under: Meta, TV | 23 Comments »

Well Said

January 27th, 2008

Here’s another manifesto, and I think Meowser knocks it out of the park. I will say that fat hate is one of the last forms of prejudice in which even most people who are subjected to it think they are getting exactly what they deserve. And I find that totally unacceptable. BMI is now being [...]

Filed under: Advocacy, Feel Good Friday, Meta, Tidbit | 13 Comments »

I Hope We Do You Proud

January 25th, 2008

Rachel posted this today: I received a call today inviting me to be on Fox’s Morning Show with Mike and Juliet on Monday morning in New York. The fabulous Lara Frater and maybe one other blogger will be joining me in response to the New York Times article on fat acceptance bloggers. Wait, wait. Here’s [...]

Filed under: Advocacy, Feel Good Friday, TV | 36 Comments »

Feel Ambivalent Thursday

January 24th, 2008

I was going to save this for Feel Good Friday, but instead it will be here, on Feel Ambivalent Thursday. First the good news: Norbit has been nominated for a ton of Razzies: Murphy’s “Norbit,” released amid a film-honors season that earned Murphy an Academy Awards nomination for “Dreamgirls” last year, received eight Razzie nominations, [...]

Filed under: Fat Suits, Movies | 7 Comments »

A Comment That Got Really, Really Long

January 23rd, 2008

Here is the comment I was responding to, from cathy: What confuses me is the idea of this website. Mo called it a gateway to fat acceptance yet one of the contributers had gastric bypass and mo has a blog and has had for a few years dedicated to her attempts to lose weight? I [...]

Filed under: Advocacy, America Ferrera, Celebrities, Fat Positive, Fatism, Feminism, Meta, Personal, Question | 37 Comments »

15 Minutes Continued…

January 23rd, 2008

With an article at ABC News online. I haven’t had a chance to do more than skim it (although I didn’t say 1,500 comments per day, I said 1,500 visits per day). But look at the pretty screen shot!

Filed under: Media, Meta | 20 Comments »

More On The New York Times

January 23rd, 2008

Okay, let’s talk about the New York Times piece. I wasn’t interviewed for the article, although I was told there might be a mention, and so I didn’t expect this blog to be featured so prominently, which was a delightful surprise when I saw the masthead in this morning’s paper. On the whole, I thought [...]

Filed under: Advocacy, Fat Positive, Fatism, Health, Media, Meta | 88 Comments »

Thank You, New York Times…

January 22nd, 2008

…for featuring this blog in today’s Science Times section. I haven’t even had a chance to sit down and read the article, because I’ve been so busy at my actual job. But it’s been fun to get a huge spike in hits, many emails letting me know that people saw the article, and even some [...]

Filed under: Advocacy, Fat Positive, Media, Meta | 52 Comments »

Queen Latifah's Jenny Craig Commercial

January 22nd, 2008

At the gym yesterday, I saw that the Queen Latifah commercial for Jenny Craig is out—so I figured I should follow up on my original post about the issue. There was no sound, though, so I couldn’t hear it. So I just did a quick search and came up with an interview that is mostly [...]

Filed under: Advertising, Celebrities, Cold Hard Cash, Exercise, Health, Queen Latifah, Video, Weight Loss | 20 Comments »

Your Workout Playlist Should Be All Rise, Baby!

January 21st, 2008

I loved reading this article about workout playlists. I’ve worked very hard on my playlist, which is incredibly cheesy and includes things like “Pop Goes My Heart” (Hugh Grant) and “I Think I Love You” as performed by American Idol’s Constantine. (I can’t help it; my response to that one is now Pavlovian.) I need [...]

Filed under: Exercise, Movies, Music, Personal, Science | 31 Comments »

An Advice Columnist Whose Name Doesn't Rhyme With Blan Travage

January 18th, 2008

I think this letter and response speaks for itself. Maybe I’ll throw in a little bolding… Dear Prudence, I’m 24, and I’ve been with my boyfriend for about 18 months. We were friends in high school, then met again after college, and started living together almost immediately. We have been talking about marriage lately, which [...]

Filed under: Feel Good Friday, Tidbit | 33 Comments »

Bathing Suit Giveaway!

January 18th, 2008

Originally uploaded by mo pie Thanks to Anne, we have a fabulous giveaway on this Feel Good Friday, a size 14 leopard print Esther Williams style bathing suit. (You can get the measurements here.) In order to enter, all you need to do is take a photo of yourself that is somehow inspired by the [...]

Filed under: Fashion, Feel Good Friday, Meta, Tidbit | 9 Comments »

Don't Try This Diet At Home…

January 17th, 2008

…or anywhere else, actually. What diet, you ask? Why, a little something called the Tapeworm Diet. Where, presumably, YOU SWALLOW A FUCKING TAPEWORM. Now I have provided this very short and rudimentary background to helminth therapy to create the idea of “good” worms versus “bad” worms… The beef tapeworm, in addition to immunoregulatory properties, produces [...]

Filed under: Eating Disorders, Food, Health, Science, Weight Loss | 35 Comments »

Prom Trauma (Prauma?)

January 16th, 2008

I still vividly remember going shopping for a prom dress with my mother and grandmother. I was a plus-sized teenager and, because they were clueless, they took me to a lot of stores that didn’t carry plus-sized clothes. I remember a lot of salespeople who would look me up and down, then turn to my [...]

Filed under: Advocacy, Cold Hard Cash, Fashion, Personal | 28 Comments »

The Science Of Portion Control

January 15th, 2008

Another sciency study, this time looking at a part of the brain (the left posterior amygdala, or LPA as I like to call it) that registers fullness. Scientists found that the higher the subject’s BMI, the less active the LPA was. Hopefully you can look past the headline and enjoy the science part: Each study [...]

Filed under: Food, Science | 21 Comments »

Are You Insecure About Your Height?

January 14th, 2008

The idea of height insecurity was touched on in the comments of a recent post, and I thought it was worthy of some more discussion. Below are comments from Arlene, MarqueeMoon, and Beth. You know, everyone is always going on and on and on about how models are so impossibly skinny and set an impossible [...]

Filed under: Fashion, Feminism, Meta, Personal, Question | 97 Comments »

Don't Forget, She's Also A Lesbian

January 14th, 2008

My dad’s best friend likes to send out “funny” spam emails, and because I have respect for my elders and everything, I just silently delete them. A couple of weeks ago he sent one over with the subject line, “No matter what your politics, this is hilarious!” The hilarity in question is the subject of [...]

Filed under: Advocacy, Feminism, Personal | 43 Comments »

Gum?

January 12th, 2008

According to Wired magazine, chewing too much gum can have a laxative effect and cause dramatic weight loss. Given that most weight-loss drugs have a difficult time producing one-pound per week weight loss, you might think the scientists would trumpet these findings as a prelude to the newest blockbuster pharmaceutical. But sadly, the drop in [...]

Filed under: Eating Disorders, Food, Health, Magazines, Tidbit | 12 Comments »

Ugly Betty Open Thread

January 11th, 2008

Last night’s episode of Ugly Betty featured Betty advocating for a “healthy models” fashion show. According to the TWoP recap: Betty asks if they couldn’t show a wider range of women — normal, but not deathy. Finally, someone stands up for the non-deathy women in fashion! Okay, besides Tyra. Betty had the graphics department put [...]

Filed under: America Ferrera, Celebrities, TV | 14 Comments »

Lifetime Movie Alert

January 10th, 2008

From the fine network that brought you such titles as Mother May I Sleep With Danger? and Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear comes a film that may be of more interest than usual, as it stars Nikki Blonsky of Hairspray fame as a plus-sized girl. The movie is called Queen Sized. Unlike Hairspray, which was [...]

Filed under: Celebrities, Fat Positive, Hairspray, Movies, Nikki Blonsky, TV | 27 Comments »

10 Reasons The Biggest Loser Bugs Weetabix

January 9th, 2008

I’ve never watched The Biggest Loser, but I really enjoyed our own Weetabix’s post at Elastic Waist all about why she hates it. It’s a top ten list, and you know how we all love lists. 4. The weigh-in uniform. Girls wear just a sports bra but the guys get to have some modesty by [...]

Filed under: Biggest Loser, Exercise, TV, Weight Loss | 30 Comments »

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