Comments on: 5 Things We May Want To Talk About

By: Kitrona

Kitrona — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:40:01 +0000

Yes, John Cho is hot.

But I’m going to have to take a very unpopular stance here. Glee is crap. There are MANY MANY things about it that are IMMENSELY problematic, not least of all the token characters and the crip-drag, but also the poor characterizations of very many types of people and the storylines that encourage disrespect for boundaries, authority figures, and entire groups (like the deaf choir… NO, you do NOT get to sing over them because they fulfilled their role in a Very Special Teaching Moment; and the cheerleading coach’s sister being disabled… no, no, nononono). That’s not diversity, it’s stereotyping masquerading as diversity.

I have watched the show. It literally made me nauseated.

By: Atchka!

Atchka! — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:02:49 +0000

Some of the things I had been saying (SP was de facto leaders of Fatosphere because of Harding’s exposure) were mentioned in her departing post.

I don’t take issue with her “using” the Fatosphere feed. Her beliefs were sincere and her opinions valuable, so the SP/Fatosphere relationship was beneficial. And Kate using the feed to boost her visibility to sell books… meh, I’d do the same thing too, if I could. Would I leave afterward? Well, I could see how the whole kerfuffle inhibited their ability to write what they wanted to write.

I dunno, I wasn’t around for the Great Purge I keep hearing about (all the FA bloggers who left, apparently due to SP), so I don’t find SP’s presence offensive. I merely found the attitude of their commenters (and *some* of the contributors) to be needlessly spiteful, so if that cuts down on the inter-Fatosphere fighting, then cool.

The way I see it, we know where SP is and they know where we are, now there’s more room for a new King or Queen of the Fatosphere to blaze a new trail. So, let’s get going.

Peace,
Shannon

By: Wish

Wish — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:38:32 +0000

John Cho is cute as hell. I will never understand why he seems to be left out of the pretty boys club.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:33:36 +0000

1. I second June’s comment. Moving on now.

2. So this is a black college doing this? It’s a bit ridiculous.

3. I don’t know about everyone else, but I have never been affected by Disney Princesses as a kid.

By: June

June — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:03:48 +0000

1. Whoop-dee-doo.

2. Someday people will realize they can’t force other people to look/behave/think a certain way. Not today, though. Probably not anytime soon, either. Sigh.

3. Gosh, and I thought I was bad for hating my fat at age 9…I wonder how fucked up I would’ve been if I’d started at age 3.

4. I so want to see that movie. I can’t wait till this term is over so I have some free time!

5. John Cho IS hot. Especially in that suit. Hot damn!

Also, Glee is currently my favorite show, but I agree, they need to develop some other characters. I like that they poked their toe in the water with Tina and Artie, but they haven’t touched Mercedes yet, and some of the other characters in the club don’t even have names (seriously, “the other asian”?)

By: Liza

Liza — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:50:05 +0000

Re #1: When you say that they left the Fatosphere, it imples that they left the entire movement. But really, all they left was one RSS feed.

By: Moe

Moe — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:52:30 +0000

5/ I’m not an avid watcher of Glee but of those times I’ve watched it I was impressed by the diversity. I especially loved the scene the other night when a visiting school club had a round woman up front singing and shaking her booty like it was her last day on the planet. She was wonderful and inspiring.

By: kb

kb — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:45:04 +0000

should be-have I just not been around enough. I can type. really.

By: kb

kb — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:44:37 +0000

okay, I’m curious how Kate Harding attempted to drown out all other fatosphere blogs. I always managed to find others. I’ve always managed to find others who heartily disagreed with her. Have I just not bee around long enough? or what? I’m not saying that dropping out is or isn’t a good idea. But I really don’t understand this whole “shapely prose is the fatosphere” thing. There are other blogs. other good blogs. do they not count?

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:42:21 +0000

That story about the little girls scared the crap out of me. My two year old is teeny tiny — under the 3rd percentile for weight — but like every other two year old in the world, she has a round little tummy, and she likes to pose in front of the mirror while sucking in her stomach. I think this is just a normal “hey look what my body can do” toddler thing, but I confess that every time I see her do it I wince.

The hardest thing so far about being a mother to a little girl is trying to banish all comments about my own weight from my vocabulary. I honestly think that mom’s own crappy body image probably has a bigger effect than the princesses do.