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HOW DARE YOU CALL ME FAT
Mars from Chicken Dinner Candybar does her regular Fat Love Friday and includes Marie from Agent Lover.

Marie is put off by her inclusion on a "fat" list and tells Mars so.

Mars offers to take it down. Marie refuses. Instead, she proclaims on her blog, "oh haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaale no!

Chaos ensues in the comments about fatphobia, body acceptance, fashion sense (or the lack thereof), and kissing-up commentors.

Is Marie brave or is she overreacting?

(I'm in the comments and I know Natalie [the 'overreacting' link], so I am slightly involved in the wank aftermath. It's pretty obvious which side i'm on.)

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	eleutheria 2009-08-03 02:46 pm UTC (link)
	Brave my ass. The fatphobia on Marie's blog made me want to hurl. BTW, you're mentioning the "fat-o-sphere". Where should I find such marvelous fat-positive stuff? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ealusaid 2009-08-03 03:47 pm UTC (link)
	The central hub, so it seems, is at Shapely Prose. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	risha 2009-08-03 05:20 pm UTC (link)
	I hang out there a lot, mostly because I have a huge girl crush on Kate Harding. Unfortunately, she doesn't write much herself anymore. :( Still, highly recommended. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	eleutheria 2009-08-04 06:17 am UTC (link)
	Thank you! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mydemand 2009-08-03 04:04 pm UTC (link)
	Check out the sidebar on the "overreacting" link. Plenty of links! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	notjo 2009-08-03 04:40 pm UTC (link)
	There's a book, called "Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere" (usually fatosphere, until the publisher wanted an -o-), by Kate Harding and Mary Anne Kirby. In Australia, it got its original title: "Screw Inner Beauty". (Reply to this)(Parent)

	dez_chan 2009-08-03 05:22 pm UTC (link)
	I also like Manolo for the Big Girl because it has sales posts. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sandglass 2009-08-03 10:28 pm UTC (link)
	The feed should keep you pretty up to date on all the major bloggers in the fat-o-sphere, too. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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