No, it doesn't help them give better advice, that's absolutely true. But much of the time the problem isn't the nature of the advice. For most fat people, it really, really isn't rocket science, what they need to do. The problem is that for whatever reason, doing so seems impossible, or a lower priority than whatever…

There is not ONE time where I have watched this movie and not said, "FUCK HER BROTHER! KARL IS FINE!" I mean, shit. Priorities, right?

Medicine didn't create cancer. Medicine didn't create heart disease. Medicine didn't create congenital illness. Medicine didn't create polio.

I used a birth control patch for a while, and it was clearly stated in the pamphlet that they couldn't guarantee effectiveness in women over 90 kg/198 lbs. I asked a doctor friend and she explained that sex hormones are fat soluble, and although you can be 90 kg pure muscle, it's more likely that the extra kilos are…

notice how almost every comment here is directed at pharmaceutical companies' thin privilege, the inadequacy of the BMI index, and the stigma of being obese....rather than considering the fact that being overweight makes most applications of modern medicine more difficult. It's almost as if there were concrete health…

It seems science and nature are conspiring to fat shame women.

"Did you ever stop to consider that there might be a good reason for that? That many POC liberals are sick and tired of white liberals shitting all over them while pretending like they truly get our struggles?"

she didn't show complete sensitivity to the issues surrounding intersectionality in American feminism.

Seconded. Jezebel readership is so diverse, and nobody ever really acknowledges that. We're all coming at this from our own experience, right? It's the best any of us can do. It would be nice if we didn't have to attack one another in the process. I see a lot of us vs. them rhetoric through this comment thread, and…

Macklemore sucks because he's a white straight cis male who openly acknowledges his privilege but doesn't then also choose to hide under a rock.

I agree with you. It's frustrating to not be able to find clothes that fit. Period.

What a cute little tongue-in-cheek article about how haughty us Brits are. I'm sure that nothing more serious and worthy of discussion than the debut of Honey Boo Boo happened in Britain today.

Sex and the City 2.

Kinja will only let me recommend this once, but I wanted to take the time to inform you (personally) that I hit the button 4,682 more times. Because that is how much I agree with you.

I'm a little tired of seeing the griping on here about, "Oh, how nice that she has that option as a rich person."