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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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snarkhunter
2009-08-04 05:33 pm UTC (link)

TBH, I haven't had a non-gyno physical in about 8 years--and 8 years ago, I weighed about 15-20lbs less than I do now. (I was 22, and my metabolism was...speedy.)

So I'm not sure what a doctor would tell me. When I go in for other stuff, my blood pressure is perfect, but my BMI, depending on whether they put my height down as 5'3" or 5'3.5", is either right on the edge of "normal" or is "overweight." I also don't look like I weigh as much as I do--either b/c my weight is in the "right" places (I've got boobs and an ass) or because I have more muscles than I should (more than I should b/c oh, how I hate exercise. HATES it), so the nurses have been taken aback a bit when they weight me, but they don't say much.

All of that said, I don't think it's just in your area. From what I've heard second-hand, it's a pretty pervasive problem.

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