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

mindset
2009-08-05 01:39 am UTC (link)

I hope you meet your goal too. My mother did not lose weight, despite how she tried, and as a consequence developed a hernia that eventually basically killed her. She didn't live to see the weddings of any of her children.

I'm all for fat acceptance when health is not on the line. When it is on the line -- and the line does vary greatly from what is commonly assumed -- I am never going to tell people off for sharing their tips. God knows I'm ranging close to obese myself and it's really starting to bother me, but then I haven't made an effort to get healthy recently either (which also bothers me greatly, but that's my problem).

I might tell people off for sharing their tips in FW, though. Sigh, this community...

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