We Put The “Round” In Roundup
No, I still haven’t committed to a name that isn’t Fattie Quickies, although I did enjoy your suggestions. (And Emily also came up with the Round pun in the comments. Yay, Emily! E-mail me; I’ll send you a present.)
Anyway, I’m going out of town this weekend and am teaching classes up until the very last minute, so posting may continue to be light until next week. In the meantime, here are some links for you! (I think there are a few potential juicy conversations in here, so I may pull out some comments and start spinoff posts if it seems like we want to talk more about something.)
The Oscars, cutting calories, Kirstie Alley, schisms in the fatosphere, and a feminist take on LOST coming right up…
1. The Oscars are on Sunday! I can’t wait to see what Gabby Sidibe and Mo’Nique decide to wear. Here they are at the NAACP Image Awards: Gabby in a short, sparkly gray dressand Mo’Nique in a bridal-looking white gown. The Rungay boys on Mo’Nique:
It’s a pretty dress and she looks good, but it’s the same effect that happened with Kate Winslet last year. She got nominated for an Oscar and sand blasted all her unique quirkiness away to make herself look like an Oscar nominee.
2. Urging “small caloric changes” to fight obesity is misleading.
[T]he “small changes” theory fails to take the body’s adaptive mechanisms into account. The rise in children’s obesity over the past few decades can’t be explained by an extra 100-calorie soda each day, or fewer physical education classes. Skipping a cookie or walking to school would barely make a dent in a calorie imbalance that goes “far beyond the ability of most individuals to address on a personal level,” the authors wrote — on the order of walking 5 to 10 miles a day for 10 years.”
“Instead of focusing on weight or appearance, focus on people’s health. There are things people can do to improve their health significantly that don’t require normalizing your weight.”
3. Kirstie Alley should stop trying to lose weight and just own the fat.
Some advice: if Kirstie Alley is going to do a show about being fat, she needs to go Ru-Paul on our asses and work it. Don’t use the word fat as a stand-in for disgusting. Fat is lots of things, but it is not gross. For every outspoken self-hating fat celebrity out there, there are a million fat chicks just trying to be okay with their bodies. Alley has the chance to be a champion for all the chubby girls in the house. How much fun would it be to watch her fabulous, slightly insane self walk around town being all, “I’m fat! What! Pass that cake!” Show her working out (News flash! Lots of fat people work out!), shopping (News flash! We want cute clothes too!), dating (News flash! Lots of dudes dig fat ladies! And thin ladies! Really, men just want to get with a lady!) and just being all about her fabulous fat self.
Jenfu said this very thing a few months ago! Thanks to Becca for the link.
4. Third-wave fat acceptance? An interesting conversation in the Fierce Fatties comments.
There are so many different perspectives in Fat Acceptance. And every time I’ve heard someone say that everyone in fat acceptance agrees on something, I end up thinking about all the instances where that is so not true.
We don’t have a single leader or a single idea that we follow in FA. Even the “big names” of fat acceptance say things like, “we don’t want fat acceptance to be monolithic”…
If fat acceptance is a smorgasbord of ideas, I think each of us needs to pick those things that work for us and discard the rest.
I feel like I’m so out of the loop on FA gossip and drama! I don’t even understand the thing with the three competing feeds; should BFD be on any other feeds? Or would BFD be shunned by the other feeds? I have no idea.
5. I won a Beautiful Blogger Award! Okay, it’s just a little graphic, but it reminds me of the day we won Diarist.net awards and pretended they meant things. (Oh man, Diarist.net is defunct now! Who knew.) Well, it is a lovely compliment to be on Rachel’s list… so thank you!
And in the spirit of the awards, I will point you to the awesome feminist blog Tiger Beatdown, which recently did a feminist analysis of LOST.
My problem with the “most interesting story lines” though, to be troublesomely ladybusiness for a moment, is this: Claire’s most interesting story line was having a baby and a boyfriend. Sun’s most interesting storyline is having a husband and a baby. Kate’s most interesting story line is having two potential boyfriends, between whom she cannot choose, and also a baby eventually. Juliet’s most important storyline was that her boyfriend might have thought for 1.5 seconds about liking another girl so she had to fall down a mine shaft and explode three times on screen.
Happy reading!
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Filed under: Advocacy, Celebrities, Gabby Sidibe, Health, Kirstie Alley, Links, Meta, Mo'Nique, TV
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Hi mo pie,
I’m the “brains” behind Fierce, Freethinking Fatties and due to your confusion, we are hereby shunning you officially.
By shunning, I mean we think your blog is awesome and we’re so completely jealous of the incredible interactive environment you’ve established with your commenters that we’ve made it one of our goals to emulate your success in that area.
So, take that!
As far as the “schism,” the drama is over and the dust has settled. Basically what it came down to was that the Fatosphere has a strict zero diet talk policy and I was told that I had violated this policy in this post.
FFFs was formed because I believe that if you give a reader adequate warning, then he/she is capable of deciding whether they want to read diet talk, weight loss talk, weight loss surgery talk or not. We’re still working on a new aggregate feed which will offer category-based feeds using our patent-pending Ratings system.
We’ve had several diet talk posts since our debut, and I feel like it’s added a whole new depth of diversity to Fat Acceptance that some people have found really refreshing.
On 99% of Fat Acceptance issues, both the Fatosphere and FFFs are in agreement (the third feed, Fat Liberty, is not all that active, according to Big Liberty, who runs it), but where we differ is on the ground rules of what is acceptable in a Fat Acceptance community. FFFs has a pretty libertarian view of the situation and, as such, we have attracted a stable of bloggers whose voices represent a wide variety of viewpoints on Fat Acceptance.
Sorry this was so long, but I thought you and your readers might want a breakdown of the situation. Thank you for featuring us in your roundup. We love BFD!
Here’s my suggestion for a roundup name: “The Big Fat Minute.”
Anyway, come visit us some time. We’ve got cookies.
Peace,
Shannon
(I can’t tell if my comment was too long, it’s not posting).
Peace,
Shannon
I thought Gabby’s NAACP image awards dress was fierce and am so glad you posted it! I like her other looks too, but those flowy jewel-tone dresses were getting a bit predictable and matronly for me.
Thanks for the links. I briefly checked them out. I will have to go back through when I have more time.
Hi Shannon, thanks for letting me know! It got caught by the spam filter I think because it had a few links in it. But it’s there now!
You da bomb diggity-do, mo pie!
Peace,
Shannon
Oh, I just rethought the name idea… how about “In a Big Fat Minute” and then you could use the Eagle’s song as a theme.
Peace,
Shannon
Woo Hoo! Emailed you! I’m so excited, thanks!
I want the gray dress that Gabby is wearing, it’s beautiful and beautiful on her!
I am totally stealing “own the fat” for my personal mission statment. I’ve been thinking the same thing about Kirstie Alley for years.
Know who else really needs to own the fat? Oprah Winfrey. I go berserk every times she sends out another “OMG, I’m over 200 pounds again!” press release. Oprah, please – you are outrageously rich and successful and obviously not meant to be rail thin. Do your millions of fans a favour and just accept it.
/End of imaginary lecture to Oprah.
Hell yes on the Lost lameness!
Does Kate ever do anything but screw everything up?
Sun was emotionally abused for years and now she’s desperate without him? Also the only way she can help herself is by that bald guy helping her or Michael saving her? Weak.
I can’t wait for this season to end. I wish I knew how to quit you Lost!
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