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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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	Re: Might get some negative feedback on this, but... sneer 2009-08-04 07:49 pm UTC (link)
	So choosing to eat potato chips instead of salty foods that are better for you is okay, but someone who says "I cannot lose any more weight without doing stupid, dangerous shit" is just making the wrong lifestyle choices. Gotcha. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: Might get some negative feedback on this, but...

silrana
2009-08-04 09:33 pm UTC (link)

The potato chip remark was just a recognizion of hard it is. I'm human, I'm not perfect, and I certainly don't expect other people to be. I make bad choices. Eating potato chips isn't good for me, but it's a step up from eating them slathered in dip, which is what I used to do. I was using that to demonstrate a change. Will it solve all my problems? Hell, no. Is it the best I can do? Nope. But it's a step. You know what they say about the way to eat (or uneat, in this case) an elephant.

I'm not saying that you or anyone else is making wrong lifestyle choices. I'm not talking right or wrong, I'm talking *different* depending on what your goals are. If a person is happy with the way they are, then great. I'm very happy for them. But what started my ranting was people saying it couldn't be done, and I intend to do it.

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