I do link roundups from time to time, to try and cover links people send me or things I might otherwise miss. I was thinking of making it a regular feature, especially given how much I enjoy the Morning Shots at Monkey See and Fugs and Pieces at Go Fug Yourself. But I have [...]
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So, there’s a dating website called beautifulpeople.com, which describes itself as an “elite” website for “exclusively beautiful” people. This state of beautifulness is apparently determined by a HotOrNot-style online vote.
To become [members], applicants are required to be voted in by existing members of the opposite sex. Members rate all new applicants over a [...]
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I was catching up on my blog reading this weekend and found two posts I thought were especially worth passing along. First, I really enjoyed Kate’s post, “We Already Know We’re Fat“:
“This so-called epidemic is not made up of theoretical fucking people who are just as fat as you can possibly imagine. It’s made [...]
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I’m writing this post in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, after a long and taxing Monday that those of you who follow me on Twitter are sick of hearing about, I’m sure. So my brain is broken, and instead of a real post, I give you… the five Google Alert e-mails that I [...]
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ugly girlfriend adsOriginally uploaded by mo pie
BFD reader Kellie alerted us to a series of ads from Bacardi, which suggests that the perfect accessory for summer is an “ugly girlfriend.” As Kellie pointed out, “ugly” seems to be synonymous with plus-sized; of five girls pictured, three are plus-sized. AgencySpy talked about the text [...]
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"not so little red riding hood"Originally uploaded by mo pie
Artist Dina Goldstein is doing a provocative photography project called Fallen Princesses. Of this project, she says:
These works place Fairy Tale characters in modern day scenarios. In all of the images the Princess is placed in an environment that articulates her conflict. The ‘…happily ever after’ [...]
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Anyone who knows me knows what this post really is. It’s a flimsy excuse to mention Adam Lambert, my favorite American Idol contestant ever; sorry Clay, Kelly, Daughtry, whomever. (Adam Lambert, I make such a good best-girlfriend-of-a-gay-dude* ever; seriously, call me. I have references.)
*Avoiding the potentially inflammatory terminology here!
Anyway I LOVE HIM, is my point, [...]
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Sorry for the scarcity of posts this week; life seems to have gotten in the way! I hope we will be back at full-steam soon. In the meantime, I wanted to draw your attention to this comment, from someone who needs advice, and signs herself “Hates Herself.”
He knew what I was before he told me [...]
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I’ve been struck down with some kind of death illness for the past few days. You’d think that being curled up on my couch for 72 hours would mean I could manage a blog post or two, but it hasn’t seemed that way. I’m hoping to be back in action tomorrow, but in the meantime, [...]
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More Hollywood news! It’s Hollywood Monday! There’s a reality show in development at Fox that will basically be a fat version of The Bachelor. It’s called More to Love.
For six years it’s been skinny-minis and good-looking bachelors, and that’s not what the dating world looks like,” Fox president of alternative Mike Darnell said. “Why [...]
Filed under: Biggest Loser, Gossip, Media, More To Love, Project Runway, Sex & Romance, TV, Tidbit, Video | 15 Comments »
I’m not sure if Twitter’s Steve Buscemi is the real Steve Buscemi. But whether he is or not, I enjoyed this Tweet from him today, which I was pointed to by Nonk.
has always loved overweight women and pre-marriage was never ashamed of dating fat girls. Don’t hide her–she’s beautiful.
Immediately I had to go check [...]
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It is Feel Good Friday and it’s my thirty-fourth birthday today! How perfect, then, that I have two feel-good e-mails to share.
Reader Katie forwarded me an e-mail from the wonderful BUST magazine, which featured a little blurb about Big Fat Deal. One thing they said really jumped out at me:
The best part of Big Fat [...]
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Teghan sent along this link to an article on AskMen.com (and believe me, I feel gross about even giving them attention). It’s a list of “Top 10 Subtle Ways To Tell Her She’s Getting Fat.”
Well already, it’s a charming list. Feel free to spare yourself the pain to your eyeballs, since I will tell you [...]
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I received this letter from Sara, and immediately asked if I could post it here and get your feedback.
Hello Ms. Pie,
I am having a bit of a dilemma. I am about to lose my virginity (at 22) to a man who I really love. That’s not the problem. The problem is that I am so [...]
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I’m addicted to SecretTweet, the Twitter version of Post Secret, where people submit their secrets and they’re posted anonymously. Often there are weight-related ones that come up, and I think of you guys. So I thought I would collect a few here.
Some of them are hopeful:
My boyfriend weighs three times what I do, but [...]
Filed under: Fat Positive, Fatism, Feel Good Friday, Media, Meta, Sex & Romance, Tidbit, WLS, Weight Loss | 7 Comments »
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I got an e-mail recently from a plus-size sex worker who keeps a blog called For Lovers of Curves.
I’m going to put most of this post behind a cut; although I don’t think it’s super NSFW, you never know! Anyway, her bio is:
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Allow me to introduce you to the Chubby Maid Café, an establishment in Japan, started by a woman who worked at a “regular maid café” until she realized all the other women who worked there were much thinner than she was.
In researching what a “maid café” [...]
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I’m happy today. Very very happy. I could be happier, but right now, I’ll take this amount of happy. And because I’m so happy, I absolutely loved this clip from a cable access show called “Goddesses” and because I love you too, I’m sharing it. Consider it a follow up to the jawdropper that [...]
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Fat chicks have more sex than skinny chicks. Sorry, skinny ladies, but it’s science. The story is kind of troubling, though, when you start to look at it up close.
The results seem to contradict stereotypes that overweight and obese women have less sex. If anything, the researchers said, the opposite seems to be true.
Is [...]
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I ran across an advice column today in my Google alerts that managed to make me indignant on three totally different levels, one at a time. Allow me to take you along on my journey! It really starts with the first paragraph of the question.
My boyfriend Chris is 6 foot, 7 inches. I’m 5-foot, [...]
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This post is brilliant and I’m sorry I didn’t think of it first: a look at the bodies of the new Beverly Hills 90210 cast compared to the previous cast. It’s like a comparison between the original cast of The Real World and the most recent cast. Thinner, more highlighted, more generic. It’s an interesting [...]
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It’s true that culturally, the responsibility for having an adequately-sized sexual organ is all on the guy, but a growing movement is noticing that hey, it’s not like a vagina only comes in petite. One girl’s hooha might be snug while another girl might get labeled as “cavernous” by guys in private. After all, it [...]
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We all know that there is no such thing as an “ideal beauty,” right? And that we women shouldn’t define ourselves or our self-worth according to what men find sexy, right? It is with this disclaimer in place, then, that I tell you the preferred body type for men, according to this survey (link NSFW) [...]
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So, that was BlogHer! A very interesting, overwhelming experience. People were so friendly and awesome, I felt I could strike up a conversation with anyone at any time—and I did a lot of that. There were also lots of mommybloggers everywhere, so much so that it didn’t feel quite like my scene a lot [...]
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Celia Kyle writes sexy-sexy romance novels featuring plus-sized heroines. Commenter mccn volunteered to do a totally honest review of one of Celia’s books, as I thought some of you might be interested. Enjoy!
The best sex comes with humour. Whether it’s being able to share a laugh at the noises bodies make when they [...]
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