While sizism affects workers in every industry (given that it's legal and largely socially condoned), flight attendants get it especially badly. I would be *delighted* to see a fat flight attendant (or many), and more likely to support that airline because I'd have evidence they actually avoid discrimination against…

I love most of these. I have stretch marks from the base of my neck down to my forearms, and I have a terrible time finding plus-size clothes with close-fitting necklines and 3/4-ish sleeves. (Perhaps this is MM's issue as well?)

Women have widely varying endogenous testosterone levels — in some cases, due to conditions like PCOS, other times simply as natural variations.

Lots of autistic people challenge that usage, however, because it makes autism seem like a 'tacked on' part, rather than as a fundamental characteristic. Sometimes people on the ASD spectrum also choose to capitalize 'Autistic', too, emphasizing its role as a social identity category and community (like 'Deaf').…

I would also speculate that mothers with PCOS would be more likely to have autistic children, due to high maternal testosterone level. Also, cortisol is elevated by chronic stress, so there could be a huge variety of social and environmental factors at work, too.

This is my strategy. Works great (as long as you remember to put sunblock EVERYWHERE).

That is exactly my diet and lifestyle.
I work closely with a doctor, for my health. But he's smart enough to know that weight is not a permanently changeable quality for most people, regardless of lifestyle. Plenty of people, including myself, are simply naturally very fat. Fat people aren't "broken thin people", in…

Uh, no. Seriously, your ignorance about body weight and genetics astounds me. (Adult body weight has approximately the same coefficient of heritability as does adult height — well over 70%.) Fat people almost always have many more fat cells than thinner people, and fat cells, while they can change volume somewhat,…

That's true, especially if you mean anorexia nervosa. I was thinking of anorexia more generally — i.e., it's the medical symptom of "not eating", regardless of cause.

I'm not sure how you're deducing anything about this women's health or lifestyle from an image of her body? Yes, a healthy lifestyle can add years to one's life — just look at the fact that research has found no difference in mortality risk among people of varying weights as long as they don't smoke, avoid alcohol,…

Wait, how on earth did you get "pregnancy" from sossajes' comment?

I assumed she herself had 'censored' the image, to highlighting the ways in which we tend to mentally superimpose our ideas of a 'normative' body on top of images of actual bodies, even when that superimposition is misleading?

It's funny (well, okay, sad) how many trolls are commenting that Jolly should lose weight. The sort of body she has is one that is usually *produced by losing weight* — i.e., the form and sagging of her fat tissue and redundant skin is characteristic of someone who has lost a considerable amount of weight at some…

"I also believe obesity is as harmful as anorexia"

You can believe it if you like, but it's untrue.

Also, anorexia is a *behaviour* (and anorexic behaviour can be found in people of all sizes). 'Obesity', as you call fatness, is *not* a behaviour, nor, in most people, the results of a behaviour either. You can tell…

"Facial symmetry and no obvious signs of infectious diseases are universal."

Even these are highly variable, at least on an individual level. The two men I find most attractive have considerable facial asymmetry (one of them is considered quite conventionally attractive, the other isn't, but I find both of them…

This post is a nice counterpoint to the extravagant bikinis-for-all-bodies claims made in the earlier post today. When people act like the conventionally attractive bodies of women like those in the Swimsuitsforall.com ad represent all women's bodies and how 'hawt' we can all look if only we dare to wear as little as…

Nice photo, but I'm not sure how it proves all bodies are bikini bodies. I mean, I support any woman of any size and shape wearing a bikini if she wants to, but the women depicted here all have conventionally attractive shapes (wide hips/bum, narrower waist), taut and unstretchmarked skin, and flat bellies — this…

I'm glad you find that exercise helps with your PTSD; it helps with my depression and anxiety as well, which is why I do it for a minimum of an hour a day.
But it certainly hasn't, nor will it ever, make me thin; nor will reducing my caloric intake below starvation levels (tried it — almost cost me my life). Are you…

In some people, they do contribute to weight loss; in others, weight stability is almost total even in the face of changes to diet and exercise patterns, especially over the long term. A good diet and suitable exercise do improve most people's health, however — but it's separating the two (weight and health) that most…

Why do I suspect that the people criticizing the school for this feature are the same ones who howl every time a fat person is shown in a positive light, because they are "glorifying obesity"?