It's not only rich people who are at risk, I've seen tons of stories about this crap. A "we're going on vacay back in a week!" post results in a home being ransacked while you're away. It's just much more appealing when it happens to rich people. We have whole tv shows about watching the rich do mundane things. Am I…

Ha! Yes! I avoid it like the plague. Places like that give me anxiety, Canadians or no Canadians.

Fast food is definitely about convenience and not affordability. Though dollar menus are problematic but honestly, there's not too much to that stuff (I know—I love me some fast food dollar menus). A lot of that food is pretty addicting. The mental health aspect to obesity is really complicated. But I for one like…

Phew.

Well, it's apparently okay to blame the government. We always have them to blame!

Veggie Straws were the only thing I could think of at the moment, sad, I know.

Then they can stay in their country! I don't go to their country and complain about them!

Oh I know! Sorry. Being sarcastic and ranty. Got a bit of shit for my post. I shouldn't let people rile me up so much.

And the righteous would reply...aren't you lucky! And maybe these people don't know better or have enough money to eat somewhere else!!! You've obviously been educated and have access to good food!

We can't fix anything without an honest discussion, and it doesn't help that every time it is discussed, someone says, "You're just fat shaming and body snarking! I have a friend of a friend who is overweight but can totally run 5 minute mile! Take that!" Great. Exceptions to everything. Except the fact that we do…

Huh. I live in Northern VT, and trust me, all we have is a steady influx of Quebecois to our stores, whether they be Costco, our lone WalMart, or our little local stores. We all complain wholeheartedly about them (especially their GOD AWFUL driving), but hey, they spend money here. Hard to argue with people willing…

Because then you're a skinny, wealthy, pretty white person who hates fat people and poor people OBVIOUSLY.

I don't know why she felt that the hat was problematic, and I'm not claiming to understand. I'm sure her lawyers have those details, but I do not. Personally, the hat's just plain ugly, but I don't know enough to claim that it does or doesn't somehow compromise the wearing of the headpiece during Ramadan. I don't…

But last time I checked, people still had the right to express their religious beliefs, whether it's wearing a cross, a habit, or a head piece. Or protesting at the funeral's of dead homosexuals, for that matter. And your vision of what is and isn't oppressive isn't wholesale truth. Many Muslim women don't feel…

Thank you.

And it's really not your place to call it oppressive, since this woman, and so many others, don't find it so. That's riddled with so many Western stereotypes. And frankly, the US guarantees you the right to your religion, and to express it, and corporations need to respect that. If they can ban religious garb, any…

No, but it doesn't help to cry "fat-shaming" at them either, as if they just have a bit of a beer belly or something. Let's not get so caught up in the some great big campaign to hug healthy body images into people's brains that we confuse obesity with being overweight. I'm not blaming obese people. I'd love to…

Obvs Disney's idea of what a Middle Eastern woman looks like and how she dresses is hardly in keeping with reality. Princess Jasmine, anyone? It's too bad the many young Muslim girls in this country don't go to places like Disney and see women and girls, just like them, in a hijab. And you should have to hide…

This isn't about "fat shaming," there is a legitimate problem in this country. Let's all stop giving examples about our healthy friends who aren't skinny, it's really not helpful. Your healthy not-skinny friend probably doesn't have heart disease, diabetes, or other obesity related diseases. That's not the point.…

I have always hated diet sodas. I was a pretty serious soda addict for awhile and quitting soda was harder than quitting cigarettes. What terrible shit.