She is such a self-righteous shit-heel. When Daniel Ortberg took over Dear Prudence, it took me a long time to even think about reading the column, because all I knew it as was “that place where Emily Yoffe calls women sluts”. She’s a complete and utter Serena Joy who is so filled with fucking malice that she’ll…

Can you link me to that article? Bc that is so me

I feel like society still looks down on fat people--especially women--after 40.  I just stopped caring as much about it after I turned 40.

*And* there was another fat character so they could represent more than one kind of character and arc and she wouldn’t just be ‘the fat one’.

A few years ago, I was put on anti-anxiety meds which eliminated my appetite, I lost 10 lbs in two weeks. Then, my body stabilized, I got my appetite back and went back to my regular weight. I said this to my therapist, how grateful I was to be eating and enjoying food again, and freaked out that I gained 10 lbs! I…

$20 bucks on amazon gets you a seat belt extender (just be sure it’s compliant with the airline you’re flying. Most are standardized, but a couple are wonky)... Just.. I’m always just like.. an inch from having the seatbelt reach, and after that first flight of having people give me dirty looks and having to try and…

It can be movie theaters, too. Granted, I’m in Europe, and I think everything here is a bit smaller. But once I had two Groupons to movies, which I was going to use in the same day, same cineplex. Went to first movie, was fine. Went to second movie, two floors up, couldn’t fit in the seat, had to leave. I was really…

The problem with this lesson is it’s basically “well at that age you’re not supposed to be pretty, according to society” and I always saw it as admitting defeat. Like yeah when society stops caring then you’re free to be fat. ><

“The anxiety of finding a new doctor who won’t blame my weight for every ache and complaint, a recipe for missing some vital diagnosis before it’s too late.”

This is a REAL problem, ass. If they want to sell seats (and every theater I’ve ever worked or been in is in constant crisis mode over box office receipts) they need to have their seats be for humans and not fucking ants.

Theater seats really are the worst. 

Do you mean Jennifer Cruise?

Melissa McCarthy in Spy remains my gold standard for fat protagonists.  I also have a big soft spot in my heart for Archer’s Pam (although I could do without all the overeating gags).

Honestly, as someone who hasn’t seen the movie but was turned off by the previews, it always struck me as a movie that’d be like that. I understand that the idea/message is “love yourself, you’re beautiful, full stop!” but it’s really hard to do that with any sort of nuance on a topic like physical attractiveness in…

There was a lot of controversy surrounding this movie but I feel like this was the most insidious part of the movie that nobody really touched on. Amy Schumer is neither ugly nor big and she’s treated throughout the movie as some sort of monster. I feel like the whole movie worked against the realization she comes to…

Let’s not forget theater seats!

If it helps, my fat ass cared a lot less what other people think about me after I turned 40. It’s still a struggle, but a little less of one.

But there’s almost nothing the show could do to overcome the fact that my introduction to her character in the first trailer was her standing in front of a refrigerator, looking dolefully at a cake with a note: “Do not dare eat this cake before your party, Kate. Love, Kate.”

I Feel Pretty really fucked me up for a while, and maybe still sorta does?  I knew there was some backlash to it, but I thought well Amy Schumer is funny and I’m sure its fine and just grabbed it from the Redbox for my boyfriend and I to watch one night.  I ended up having to turn it off because I was crying and…

I’d give him two weeks to convince me not to murder him by having lots of sex.