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otf_wank's thoughts on weight, stop sharing your thoughts

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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kaesa
2009-08-04 05:56 am UTC (link)

Oh yeah, they took height into account, but I think just for hemming. And height is way different -- I mean, I know my height. It's on my state ID. It hasn't changed since high school, and no amount of karate will make me get taller. But how much I weigh doesn't necessarily compute out to what clothing size I wear, especially with a loose garment that really only needs to fit my arms and shoulders and not trip me up.

It was especially weird because they were using the same "your size is determined by your weight" system for pear-shaped girls and top-heavy girls and thin people and football-playing guys and tubby guys and competitive swimmers, and all of those people's bodies have different densities and are differently shaped. I mean, I'm not the biggest fan of clothing sizes, but it seems like they would be really useful for figuring out what size of clothing you should give someone.

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