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 up of people you see every day AND WHO YOU PROBABLY THINK ARE “NOT FAT.”

It is also, of course, made up of the very fat people held up as “freaks,” and plenty of people in between, but the fact remains that in the U.K., as with the U.S., the majority of obese people have a BMI between 30 and 35. Which means that if they don’t know they’re clinically obese, it’s probably because they’ve never calculated their BMI, they look nothing like the media’s image of obesity, and they’ve constantly got people telling them they’re not even fucking fat.

And Rachel’s post on Dear Abby’s hypocritical advice:

A fat woman marries a man who prefers larger women and when she loses weight, Abby counsels her that it isn’t her fault and that her meanie husband is just punishing her. A thin woman marries a man who prefers thin women and when she gains weight, is told by Abby that her husband has given her an “important message” and is accused of singlehandedly and deliberately destroying her marriage and then saddled with the onus of losing weight in order to save the relationship. The biased moralization here can’t be more explicit.

Even Dan Savage wouldn’t offer advice that out-and-out hypocritical.

So, in case you don’t know, I have an insane work schedule this semester, and my time reading blogs has been severely cut down, since I’m usually either driving, grading, or in the classroom. So I appreciate your tips and e-mails now more than ever! Anything else you think I should blog about, link to, or recommend?

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