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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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	sandglass 2009-08-03 11:59 pm UTC (link)
	You don't have to diet to model thin to make yourself unhealthy. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

evilsqueakers
2009-08-06 08:37 am UTC (link)

My 76-year-old currently snoring beside me godmother has a major eating problem and she's not thin. She's probably about 180 lbs and I'd say a good 160 of it was pure muscle or boobs. She was a ballroom dancer for years and is practically all muscle between that and owning a Dairy Queen for 13 years. But because her doctor says "you should be at 135 lbs" she starves herself. She'll eat two pieces of toast at breakfast and a pack of peanut butter crackers and popcorn the rest of the day. She's on something like 20 med pills a day and a Type 2 diabetic. She's starving herself and asking for help from her doctors (obviously) and the ER when she broke her nose falling last October didn't result in any help. One of the doctors at the GP practice told her that "we need to do something about this obesity" without even looking at her...just reading the chart. And didn't refill her necessary meds (like Luvox or blood pressure) for 3 months. So she was about a week from being dead with her stockpiled blood pressure meds running out a couple weeks before.

So no, it's not always a model thin thing. Sometimes it's perpetuated from the medical field itself.

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	sandglass 2009-08-06 06:47 pm UTC (link)
	If you want to feel sick, there's a blog full of those kinds of stories. It updates pretty much daily. The fat-hate in the medical community is pervasive and inhumane. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

evilsqueakers
2009-08-09 02:01 am UTC (link)

Jesus fuck and Mary Magdalena on wheatie toast. That's. Man. I know my diabetic doc keeps telling I should lose weight but the problem is that my insulin amount exhausts me. I can't work up the energy or make a goal worthless because of how bad I feel. I kind of want to smack the medical community and remind them that it's a two-prong (or multiple) problem that needs to addressed. The first being a medicine that will help energize me and the second one that will help control my really LOW blood sugars after. Oh, wait. What am I talking about? It was my fault for eating as required and gaining weight back from a size 8 to 16. I should know better.

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