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Is It Just Me…
posted by meowser …or has anyone else noted that (with the exception of fat acceptance blogs and heavily moderated feminist blogs like Shakesville and FWD) the comments section of virtually any...
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Attention Seattle Peeps!
posted by meowser I already posted about this this on the Shapely Prose Ning site, but for those of you who aren’t hooked up with that, I thought I’d cross-post it here. On March 8 and 9 (Monday and...
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Fategories
posted by meowser When I was a baby second-wave feminist, way back in the days when Gloria Steinem was a household name (yep, that long ago), I used to muse aloud about why, if women were over half...
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And Now I Am Deathfat…
posted by meowser It’s official. A couple of weeks ago, I went in for my yearly ladybits exam that I have to have for the insurance company to keep paying for my generic Mircette, and I got weighed...
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Better Happy Than…Uh, Happy?
posted by meowser By the time I got this hat tip from Shakesville on an article for Self magazine on antidepressant weight gain (that was reproduced on both MSNBC and AOL; you can get to it through...
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May 1 is Blogging Against Disablism Day! (This Saturday)
posted by meowser Hello! This is just a brief reminder that the Annual Blogging Against Disablism Day at Diary of a Goldfish will be this Saturday, May 1. I decided to participate last year at the...
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BADD 2010: The Total Erasure of Partial Disability
posted by meowser ETA: For anyone who’s visiting my site for the first time, I send first-time commenters to moderation. I am in the U.S. Pacific Time Zone (UTC-8) and I work nights and sleep days;...
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HAES-Related Aside
posted by meowser Regarding the ever-raging To HAES Or Not to HAES debate…all I’m gonna say right now is that, as broke as I am, I would pay good money to watch Amanda Marcotte walk up to Linda Bacon,...
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Quickie Blognote
posted by meowser No, I did not put those Google ads on my site. I don’t know how they got there, and I’m not getting paid for them. If anyone knows how to get rid of them, please let me know;...
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When Politicians Talk About Fat Kids, Check Your Wallet
posted by meowser Pattie Thomas, in a must-read post at the new People of Size blog (which is shaping up to be a great source for both FA and HAES info), really gets the nail driven in on a single...
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Blogaversary and News — Me at Basket of Kisses
posted by meowser I’ve never done a “blogaversary” post here, but since I’m at the 3-year mark exactly today of posting here AND I have some news (not n00z, mind you!), I thought I’d toss some...
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Facts Change Minds? Not So Fast
posted by meowser Via Firedoglake, I stumbled on a veeeery iiiinteresting study conducted at the University of Michigan that tested the hypothesis that people change their beliefs when they discover...
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All We Are Saying…Is Not What You’re Saying We Said
posted by meowser I don’t know if y’all have been following the latest “fatties are unhealthy! eleventyone!” dustup that hit the feminist blogosphere last week, but if you haven’t, Maia of Alas, A...
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Announcement: PDX Size Acceptance Clothing Swap, Saturday, October 23
posted by meowser A real post is coming, pinky swear. In the meantime, I’d like to announce an event put together by my pal Snuffycup — a fat chick clothing swap! It’s a free event, taking place...
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If You Don’t Care Whether I Live Or Die, You Don’t Get To Lecture Me About My...
posted by meowser Way to go, fellow fatasses and honorary fatasses! The pushback against the M***a K***y thing has been a thing to see! Everybody keep on kissin’! My oh-two is as follows. I’ve never...
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2011 Resovolutions, Part 1: GFCF, Meet HAES
posted by meowser So. In the interests of turning over a new leaf, I’m going to try to be as un-grody about this as I can. Today is my four-month gallbladderversary. Yep, I celebrated last Labor Day...
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2011 Resovolutions, Part 2: The FODMAP Not Taken
posted by meowser I used to fantasize writing a universal cookbook for eating theorists. Each food would come complete with a citation from one system or authority claiming it the most divine edible...
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The Happy Foods List (A Work in Progress)
posted by meowser After my last post, The Well-Rounded Mama asked me in comments whether I had plans to do a post about what stuff I can eat without tummy trouble. Why, yes, in fact, I did. And here...
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Quickie Reblog: Fategories
posted by meowser I don’t usually do this, but hey, if cutting and pasting’s good enough for D** S***age, it’s good enough for me. About a year ago, I did a post called “Fategories” (yes, I finally...
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How A Bowl of Oatmeal Pissed Me Off
posted by meowser Right now, as I’m typing, the number 1 most e-mailed story on the New York Times site is Mark Bittman’s evisceration of McDonald’s oatmeal. The article pisses me off, and I’ve been...
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BADD 2011: (In)(di)visibility
posted by meowser Blog note for newcomers: Welcome to my world! All first-time commenters (or those whose IP addresses have changed since they last commented here) automatically go into moderation; I...
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Happy Musical Blast From the Past: The Rubberband Man
posted by meowser Because I thought we could all use one. I know I could. This is a live performance of the 1976 smash hit (#2 pop, #1 Hot Soul in Billboard) by the Spinners (The Detroit Spinners in...
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Goats Are My Heroes; Or, How What I Don’t Know Keeps Biting Me
posted by meowser Recently, Shaunta posted about the problems she was having adhering to a gluten-free diet, and it got me thinking about my own situation. During the last six months, I have not...
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Sometimes an Apple is Never a Banana
posted by meowser Oh, uh…hai. Yep, I still exist. I just haven’t posted because I’ve been monumentally busy offline with some disability-rights stuff, and I’ve had to work overtime, and also..well,...
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Fat Fat Haters
posted by meowser Last week, as I’m sure most of you know, Tara Parker-Pope of the New York Times did a piece called “The Fat Trap,” which was both about the virtual impossibility of significant...
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Who Gets To Eat What They Love? (Hint: Not Women)
posted by meowser Let me make one thing perfectly clear. Dairy-related digestive iss-yews notwithstanding, I absolutely loathe cream cheese. I despise pimentos. Mayonnaise rivals ipecac syrup for me...
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Can You Hate My Condition, and Not Hate Me?
posted by meowser Recently, former Mets catcher Gary Carter passed away from a malignant brain tumor at the age of 57, and a lot of the commentary I saw on the subject came down to (or sometimes, was...
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A Tale of Two Lifestyles (in One Body)
posted by meowser Long, long ago, in a galaxy (or, at least, a state) far, far away, I was married. My husband adored fast food — his eating philosophy was summed up by saying, “What I want is to...
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On Being Believed
posted by meowser As some of you know, I’ve been very much involved with autism self-advocacy and disability rights for the last couple of years. In fact, at the moment, that is what I spend most of...
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The End of Fat People: Goodbye Hostess
posted by meowser See those things above? Those are chocolate Zingers. I haven’t had one in over two years, but I used to love ’em, and only got out of the habit of eating them (or any other snack...
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