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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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	frau_eva 2009-08-05 05:39 am UTC (link)
	YES YES WRITE THIS STORY I WILL BE YOUR FIRST FAN. :O I had a similar idea for a graphic novel, and holy crap, we need more people understanding what it's like to be a woman with real physical strength. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

kaesa
2009-08-05 06:56 am UTC (link)

You should do yours too, as all I have written so far -- that I'm happy with, at least -- is the (not very superheroic, and only vaguely cyberpunk) story about what the main main character used to do with her Barbies. (I should post it, though, because it is called "She-Barbarians of the 21^st Century," and I'm very fond of it.) Other than that I have been faffing around with drawing them, and trying to worldbuild.

(Main main character is, and I DID NOT EVEN MEAN TO DO THIS, a bisexual English major girl gamer. So I guess she's implausible anyway, and no one will ever read it long enough to find that her BFF is, despite being short and fat and female, strong and ruthless and mean.)

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