I'm both fat and disabled, so I'm looking forward to all the pity you'll be sending my way. So, can we go out sometime?

That is my routine, and I do indeed look (and feel) healthy and happy, and it certainly is what matters. But I am very fat — the quaint little charts on the internet would put me at "morbidly obese", just as they would the other fat people in my family, each of whom has a completely different diet and exercise pattern…

But, as the character points out, her experiences are characteristic of fat women's experiences in New York. The sorts of dating and relationship opportunities available to fat women in many regions of the United States are rare in other parts of the world, as well as some places (NY, LA, etc) in the US.

I don't see how my weight has anything to do with how well I "take care of myself". I exercise daily, eat only plants, no grains or sugar, and am lucky if I can afford to eat two decent meals a day right now. But I'm very fat, just like the people from whom I inherited my genes. Do you think fat people should go back…

Ooo, name, plz?

"it's also okay to not be 230lbs."
Yeah, I'm pretty sure no FA advocate has ever advocated that everyone has to weight 230lbs (or thereabouts). Just that those of us who do weight that much (or more) are not "wrong" to live in those bodies and expect to have equal access to social, cultural, economic, and political…

Actually, the figure has been estimated at 77% — the same coefficient as height (i.e., both height and weight have some contribution from environmental factors, but both are also primarily the result of genetic influences). Studies on identical twins are the 'gold standard' for confirming this linkage — most identical…

Honestly, it got my full attention at the mention of 'local anesthesia'. So many of us would consider reconstructive surgery if not for the GA requirement that most involves.

"You can pretend that the undisciplined consumption of the typical American high-sugar, high-preservative, high-saturated fat, low protein, low-fiber diet and a sedentary lifestyle has no correlation to a raft of long term health issues if you want "

You seem to be having reading-comprehension problems. I would never…

"People don't become overweight after a long weekend. It's a lifetime of poor choices."
Oh, I see. Well, it would have taken us a lot less time and effort to respond to your comment if instead you had just paraphrased your remarks thusly: "I cling to disproven myths about the relationship between behaviour and weight,…

As long as they don't hurt others, yes, pretty much.

But the comparison is disingenuous, of course. Everything you name is a *behaviour*, not a *bodily characteristic*. It's the acceptance of the latter which is the focus of the FA movement. (I.e., I don't particularly care if others don't "accept" my veganism, my…

"I'm podgy, it's not healthy, it needs to be corrected before serious health issues arise."

Translation: I've spent a lifetime steeped in fatphobic ideology and health myths, and so I've internalized the belief that my natural body is wrong and needs to be changed. (I'm legitimately sorry that our society has led you…

"to celebrate herself and promote what a positive image of 40 looks like."

I agree she's "celebrating herself," but this isn't what 40 looks like for most women (source: almost 40 here). I'm all for people doing what they like on their own Facebook page, but this makes it sound like she's doing something altruistic,…

When I was younger, I dreamt of someday gloating to my former bullies about my success.
So I worked hard for decades, and racked up the excellent grades, accolades, skills, and degrees. Except now I can't even get a job, let alone a good one, because it turns out that the people who bully fat girls in school because…

I don't know — I live on a university campus, and the desires of men seem to play a significant role in the omnipresence of tank tops and shorts around here. While I wouldn't care to perspire in a corset, the pressure on women to expose their bodies in just the 'right' ways, and to have said bodies be just the 'right'…

Well, duh, of course 'Gay is not ok'. Gay is AWESOME.

We (almost) do that in Canada, it's a great thing. (There are, unfortunately, a few exceptions; I've actually seen bariatric surgery advertised on public transit here. WTeverlovingF?)

What would help MY life and face and body issues is the tearing down of the capitialist patriarchy.

To be fair, a 'real doctor' with a PhD is what I'd expect at a psychotherapy centre.

The 'clinic' I go to for hair removal has this aesthetic going on big time, and I have to keep reminding myself that they're not actually doing it ironically.