October 19th, 2010
1. Kirstie Alley’s new “weight loss program” is probably based on lies, according to the ever-reliable National Enquirer. (Hey, they were right about John Edwards.) (Note: the article uses slightly fat-phobic language.) [Alley] recently bragged on her Twitter site that she’s lost 50 pounds with exercise and her Organic Liaison weight-loss program. But those close […]
Filed under: Celebrities, Crystal Renn, Kate Winslet, Kirstie Alley, Links, Magazines, NSFW, Ricky Gervais, The Office, TV, Victoria Beckham | 8 Comments »
September 24th, 2010
We’ve talked about how much we love Mindy Kaling here before. In this great interview, she talks about the problem with writing realistic women characters and the rom-com she’s writing and how much she loves You’ve Got Mail (me TOO! OMG Mindy Kaling, let’s be bffs!) She touches upon this interesting trope of the fictionalized […]
Filed under: Movies, The Office, Weetabix | 32 Comments »
June 11th, 2010
If you’ve been reading for a while, you know of my conflicted feelings about Ricky Gervais. But, the problem is, he keeps hating on fat people and making it more and more difficult for me to love him. (I have the same issue with Joel McHale on The Soup. I love his shows—especially Community—and I […]
Filed under: Celebrities, Drop Dead Diva, Fatism, Feminism, Guest Post, Humor, Magazines, Ricky Gervais, The Office, TV | 12 Comments »
June 1st, 2010
the setOriginally uploaded by mo pie The Bitch magazine blog has a post up by Rachel McCarthy James examining fatness on my favorite show (at least the first few seasons), The Office. It’s an interesting read focusing on three main characters: Phyllis, Kevin, and Stanley. (As well as an excuse for me to link to […]
Filed under: The Office, TV | 9 Comments »
May 19th, 2010
Hooters is making headlines because a 5’8″, 132 pound server was told, during her performance review, to lose weight. It was the “uniform evaluation” portion of the performance review, which is presumably when they critique your body and then threaten to fire you. Lovely. [She was told] she would be given a free gym membership […]
Filed under: Feminism, Food, The Office | 26 Comments »
April 18th, 2010
I talked about roles written for men going to women in this post, and serendipitously, my issue of Entertainment Weekly this week has an article about Angelina Jolie’s sex change in Salt. However, check out this line: “In the original script, there was a huge sequence where Edwin Salt saves his wife, who’s in danger,” […]
Filed under: Angelina Jolie, Celebrities, Feminism, The Office, TV | 3 Comments »
April 2nd, 2010
I do so love it when women get to play roles originally written for men. Angelina Jolie is starring in an action film that was written for Tom Cruise. (The eponymous Edwin A. Salt became Evelyn Salt in the movie now called Salt.) Lucy Liu took on the role of Agent Sever in Ecks vs. […]
Filed under: Celebrities, Feel Good Friday, Feminism, Kathy Bates, Magazines, The Office, TV | 7 Comments »
July 30th, 2009
Everyone’s talking about More to Love! I’m going to need to set my DVR immediately. Kate Harding has an interesting review (bolding mine) that makes me curious to watch: As to the specific shows, having watched 2 episodes of “Drop Dead Diva†and one of “More to Love,†I’d put the former at about 70% […]
Filed under: Celebrities, More To Love, The Office, TV | 12 Comments »
January 23rd, 2009
I love Jenna Fischer, which is why I haven’t picked up that issue of SELF. I know it would just piss me off. I mean look at the cover: two of the most promiment headlines are “LOVE YOUR BODY SECRETS (Feel Sexier At Any Size)” and “LOSE INCHES ALL OVER (You’ll Be Slimmer In Just 18 Minutes A Day).” I think I love my body more because I don’t read SELF. And Jenna doesn’t address the issue of being photoshopped at all, even though it seems pretty obvious that they did in fact photoshop the hell out of her.
Filed under: Gossip, Magazines, Media, Photoshop, The Office, TV | 9 Comments »
January 6th, 2009
Ricky Gervais—creator of my favorite television show of all time and another show that makes me enjoy, of all people, Chris Martin from Coldplay—must you keep making me sad? I feel like we’ve talked about this before—his description of himself as a “fatty,” his standup routine where he mocks Dawn French’s weight, his self-loathing, and […]
Filed under: Celebrities, Fatism, Humor, International, NSFW, Ricky Gervais, The Office, TV, Video, WLS | 15 Comments »
September 29th, 2008
Tangerina wrote in wanting to talk about my favorite television show, The Office, and their season premiere, called “Weight Loss.” I thought it was an awesome idea, and got permission to reprint her e-mail here. Hi Mo! Love the blog. I was just writing because you asked for ideas, and I know this is a […]
Filed under: Guest Post, The Office, TV, Video, Weight Loss | 28 Comments »
June 2nd, 2008
As you probably know, if you know anything about me, my favorite show is The Office, and you know I’ll take any excuse to mention it in this blog. I recently discovered The Office Alliance podcast, and have been listening to episodes during my long commutes. Having run out of new episodes, I recently started […]
Filed under: Celebrities, Music, Nikki Blonsky, Ricky Gervais, The Office, TV | 21 Comments »
January 3rd, 2008
Melinda sends along this nicely depressing news: fat people are screwed when it comes to organ transplants. Segev’s group found the wait to get a transplant increased along with the patient’s body mass index, a height-weight formula. Non-obese patients waited on average 39 months, the overweight waited 40 months, the obese waited 42 months, and […]
Filed under: Fatism, Health, Science, The Office | 30 Comments »
June 17th, 2007
So that new weight loss drug, which we shall code name “Todd Packer,” has hit the market. And it is selling like hotcakes in spite of the fact that there is an outside chance that it causes colon cancer, and that it definitely causes you to poop your pants. “It’s probably a smart idea to […]
Filed under: Advertising, Health, Science, The Office, Weight Loss | 15 Comments »
June 11th, 2007
On the body_positive livejournal community, Cynthia posts a video response to the fat rant that asks why there aren’t more pro-petite websites out there? Why is it that the larger sized people get so much more media attention? Size acceptance websites tend to skew more to the plus than to the petite, and they seem […]
Filed under: The Office, TV, Video | 30 Comments »
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