5 More Google Alerts I Just Clicked On
It’s Sunday night, and my brain is tired from Mad Men and William Blake and getting ready for another week of school. So I give you, another batch of Google alerts that I just clicked on!
1. Expectant Parents Should Be Weighed To Prevent Fat Children.
“Tam Fry, a trustee of the National Obesity Forum, will tell its national conference in London tomorrow that pregnant mothers, and their partners should be weighed, and measured, in order to identify those who were likely to “overfeed” their children.
He told The Sunday Telegraph: “Parents are stuffing food into their children. The portion sizes are too large, they are insisting the children finish what’s on the plate and much of the food being eaten has high levels of fat, sugar and salt”.
2. Fattractive.
I heard a brand new word used today while I was watching a movie and I kind of like it. I think! Some might think its not flattering but it tells it like it is. Fattractive. Has a sexy sound to it. After all you can be fat or plus size as some would rather call it and still be beautiful and attractive. What do you think about the word.
3. Carrie Fisher Goes Crazy In Weighty Blog Post
You see, I was hot when most people are hot—- in my f-cking 20’s & part of my 30’s……THEN, in an effort to imitate humans, I had a child &, to further maintain my life like disguise, I took medications for about 9 thousand years, &, despite all my efforts, I continued to get older & older——inadvertently, I assure you———-I tried to arrest my development physically as WELL as emotionally, but unfortunately without as much success.
I also must confess that I ate food. I’m sorry….. I realize that I promised never to eat anything but lettuce & sun flower seeds, but tragically, I was unable to keep my promise.
Yes, I realize…..I KNOW that I vowed to exercise for 3 hours a day—-aerobics, pilates AND yoga, but alas, I admit with a large quota of shame, that I failed to fulfill this other important commitment.
4. The Fatosphere Is Filled With Enablers.
I recently read an article about blogs written by fat people. These bloggers encourage their readers to:
* Accept their “fatness”
* Not believe all the obesity “propaganda”
* Stay away from dietsThese bloggers have some good points, but some of the things they are saying are completely ridiculous. They are simply enabling their poor lifestyle choices and encouraging others to do the same.
5. Obese Skunk Battles Bacon Addiction.
At 14 pounds, Mr. Bumble is twice his ideal weight. His previous owners, who indulged his love for pork, gave him to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and he now lives at Tropiquaria animal park near Watchet, Somerset, where he’s fed fruit and vegetables.
That is seriously one cute skunk. And as always, if you have any thoughts about 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5–please share!
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For now, I just want to say, that’s one fine skunk they have there! :D And now I want a fat skunk of my own :)
More coherent thoughts will come later.
Actually, I have a though on number 1: what a pile of rubbish. If they were to weigh me & my hubby, they’d classify me as the potential overfeeder, when it’s my super skinny husband, who adores McDonald’s, chips and sodas. I’m a vegetable lover myself *goes off to gorge on steamed zucchini*
For #1 – hey that sounds reasonable. It’s not like thin people ever overfeed their children or teach them bad habits. Only those gross fatties would ever do that.
I’m feeling sarcastic this morning, do forgive me.
Doctors do need to spend time with expectant mothers and mothers of young ones discussing the importance of good nutrition but it should not be done based on the weight of the parents.
2. I like it.
3. I think I love her.
4. That sounds too much like something I wrote a while back. It makes me kinda sick that I actually thought that. Here I was a fat person myself, filled with so much self hatred that when I came across a few blogs that promoted the idea of loving yourself as you are, it actually offended me. Then I found this one and Shapely Prose, like right around the same time and something just clicked in my brain. I didn’t actually click through to that link and if I did, I imagine the similarities would disappear but this little snippet sounds like something I could have written. I’m so grateful to now be firmly grounded in reality. Loving my body and the bodies of others too. It’s a much better existence.
5. Cute skunk :)
Re: Fattractive–I don’t think I like it. It seems “othering” to me. Like, “Hey, you can be attractive DESPITE your fat!” or even worse, “You have such a pretty face.”
My husband tells me I’m beautiful all the time, just by saying it. No need to make up another word to describe how I’m beautiful just because I’m also fat.
You know, by saying that fat skunk is cute, you’re simply enabling its poor lifestyle choices and encouraging other skunks to do the same.
Peace,
Shannon
#1 – Tam Fry is an idiot. Everything that comes out of his mouth is insane.
#2 – I have no problem with it.
#3 – Awesome. This just goes to show you how so many people expect women to look the same and weigh the same all through their lives.
#4 – People just don’t read.
#5 – I think we should send the skunk to Tam Fry and let it spray to his heart’s content.
Maybe pet owners need to be weighed too. That skunk’s self esteem must be so damaged.
I kinda like #2. It’s like someone is attractive and fat, and that’s fine, rather than the idea that someone is, at best, attractive in spite of being fat, which does my head in. It’s slightly depressing that that needs to be said, but I’ll take what I can get.
#4 makes me feel slightly homicidal – dammit, I shouldn’t comment on three hours sleep. There are just so many logical fallacies – that all fat people have “poor” lifestyles, that “poor” lifestyles are anyone’s business than the individuals, that fat people shouldn’t feel good about themselves etc.
The guy on #4 said he didnt even read the sites himself.
do de doo
article fail.
i love carrie! i want her babies for saying that.
The only enabling the Fatosphere is doing is enabling me to not hate myself. If that’s wrong, I don’t want to be right. :)
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“Fattractive” sounds like, “Pretty for a fat chick” so I’ll go ahead and take a hot bag of “no thanks” on that one.
I really enjoyed Carrie Fisher’s blog post.
The article in #4 would have been less headdesk-inducing if he had bothered to include half of the scientific evidence that gets thrown around in the Fatosphere, instead of just “I agree and I am a ~*~doctor~*~ and therefore right!”
Not a fan of “fattractive…” I agree with others who say it sounds like a synonym for “you’re hot for a fat chick.”
Carrie Fisher is awesome.
I want that fat skunk as a pet, stat.
That is one Fattractive skunk! (I have to say I’m not crazy about that word, but he’s damn cute!)
I want a skunk, too. Fat or skinny, doesn’t matter to me!
Carrie Fisher is a goddess.
And, um, instead of measuring parents’ body weight, why don’t they measure their ability to be good, supportive parents?
Tam Fry is an a**hole.
Y’all, I was just on a plane with reality-show Ruby and she was so cute! And I wanted to preach the FA gospel to her, but I also didn’t want to be a concern troll. I opted for leaving her alone.
hahahahahahaha!!!!
I’m obviously not getting the same google alerts you are! i better get on it.
Carrie Fisher…ahhh…the days when cocaine was popular but HFC’s weren’t.
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nati
re ‘fattractive’…nope, not buying it. Kinda makes me think it’s shorthand for she’s fat, but yet surprisingly, still attractive. I’m pretty sure I’d recoil from the words ‘Blacktractive’ or ‘Jewtractive’ or any-other-tractive, so no, fattractive is a big old fail for me. Nice try tho, and I’m sure ‘meant well’ *sigh*.
BTW, I consider myself to be devastatingly, stunningly attractive. Fat, thin, or somewhere in between. So I don’t need an extra, made-up superlative thanks…I’m simply attractive.
I’m getting tired the smashing two words together to make a cutesy new word trend. Also see the suffixes “-ista” and “-rexia.” I’m refusing “fattractive” on principle.
Okay, I’ve seen a skunk that big before. And it was a WILD skunk. This guy must have raided garbage cans for miles around, as well as eating cat food that people would leave out for those disgusting “community cats”. It’s not like anyone would hand feed it…who would get that close to a WILD, scented skunk?
I know that the skunk in the story was captive, unscented one, but geez – I’ve seen a wild skunk that would rival the size of this guy.
IIIIIIT’S BACON!
4) If you do a google-fu on this guy, it’s another “I lost weight SO CAN YOU! >:D” diet creator. He talks about the BMI which is complete horsepoop. If someone had been fat at any point in their lives, shouldn’t they have more compassion for fat people after losing weight when they see from their now-thin privileged perspective, how shitty people treat us even though we’re all relatively harmless?
That first one…wow. Nice to know it has opponents in the ob/gyn world. All the lectures in the world to parents-to-be won'[t give them a thin kid if fat runs in their families. (Having a thin mother didn’t make me a thin daughter, behavioral influences or not, because guys in my dad’s family don’t have thin daughters, or sons.)
Also, the ‘clean your plate’ thing? Was current at my school and plenty of others, and had zero effect on kid size.
If there were a law that so-called ‘government’ organizations had to have their sponsors listed in every piece of publicity, the NOF and its like would have long ceased to be taken seriously. I’m with Bree on Mr. Bumble, except I have a nasty feeling Fry would feed the little guy on diet skunk kibble, if there is such a thing.
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