Thinsp, I mean Thinnovation from Mac
When asking some friends for advice computer shopping, one of them referred to a certain brand of laptops as becoming glorified paperweights after a short period of time. While my Toshiba hasn’t exactly descended into paperweight-dom, it’s certainly on the way to a slow demise (after only having it for a year). Always a fan […]
Weight Watchers co-opting Fat Lib rhetoric
Not that we didn’t see it coming… but has anyone else seen the new wave of diet advertisements from Weight Watchers? The ones that start by saying “Diet’s don’t work. Weight Watchers does”? I didn’t get a chance to record it (gimme a break, it’s two in the morning here), but you can get the […]
Recent Twitterings:
Sheana is going to start a fucking fat revolution in San Diego. RIGHT NOW.
For real, folks. You, me, a couple of my fellow women’s studies grad students, some brightly-colored fliers inspired by Big Fat Facts and the local Weight Watchers/Jenny Craig. Tonight or tomorrow afternoon.
Who’s with me?
Wii are fatphobic
So they have those commercials where two guys go around from house to house saying “Wii would like to play.” But maybe what they should be saying is, “Wii are ignorant fucking fatphobes, wii’d like to promote some body tyranny, and oh yeah, wii would like to play.”
I love my Wii. It is pretty much […]
Fat in the Classroom: What would you teach?
This is the (Right?)Bodies week in my class, and tomorrow we’re going over fat. I’ve given this lecture many times over the past year so I already have my plans made for tomorrow, but I thought in light of how active the fat blogging community has become in recent months I’d throw this out […]
Why the Dove Commercials are a Crock of Shit
I was perusing some of the missed entries on Livejournal’s Feminist community, when I found this little beauty:
Is Dove trying to do something they think is good? Maybe. But they’re still selling a product. And since they’re owned by a multinational conglomerate that also pushes body oppression, misogyny and violence against women via their other […]
Fat activists are not perfect
There’s been quite a bit of drama going on amongst the fat blogs lately, and thanks to C I finally figured out what the commotion was all about today. I’m not going to link to any of it because, hey, you probably already know what’s going on, and if you don’t that’s less drama in […]
Classy stuff from Woot
Granted, it’s only a submission for a contest on Shirt.Woot, but… really? ”The Obesity Dream”? If you’re going to circulate the same old boring obesity epidemic rhetoric, you could at least be a little original:
There are plenty of other remarkably offensive, fatphobic designs being submitted for the “health” design derby right now. Personally, I’d either […]
The criticisms of my students would serve as a good warning to visitors of Seeworthy: she talks too fast, she's too hard on us, she assigns too much work, and you have to be a dyke to get a good grade.
In other words, I'm a big, fat, queer, feminist meanie, and I am totally out to get you. Graaagh!
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