People who are worried that thin-shaming is anywhere near as crippling as fat-shaming, please take this short quiz:

I know, I've read many of those pieces in the past. It's just something I hear used frequently by people, as though a doctor would never ever say anything biased.

I'm sorry, but no. I am a "curvy girl" with a skinny sister and while I've likely dealt with more shaming over the course of my life, I've also seen people be incredibly nasty to her about her weight, and watched her cry over people telling her that she's too skinny, she looks gross, and yes that she needs to eat a…

I write about medical bias a lot. In this case, I didn't have space to stick a bunch of extra clauses in the end of that paragraph, but I hoped it was implied that I meant: "...unless you are my doctor, whom I carefully vetted to avoid any anti-fat prejudice and now trust to give me caring, humane medical advice."

One thing, before we get going; it's really time to get rid of the thoughtless bodysnarking caveat "unless you're a doctor." It feeds into the pernicious, dangerous delusion that a medical degree somehow immunizes one against fat prejudice, and study after study has shown that doctors shame, misdiagnose, provide…

This is the best sum-up of "why misandry isn't really a thing" that I've ever read. I wish we could bookmark comments.

Lifelong skinny woman here.

This reminds me of when white people say stupid shit like "why isn't there a white history month" or "why can't there be white pride parades" or talk about that one time a poc was mean to them. Just another example of ignoring your privilege.

What am I missing here? I was just pointing out its a free website and he's allowed to post as he pleases. I think this gets forgotten sometimes. He shouldn't have never had to apologize for discussing Detroit in the 1st place. This is Jalopnik's house and we are guests. If we don't like the tenor of the…

As a lifelong Texan I can honestly say that fierce loyalty to and the love of the place where you live has to be one of the most polarizing topics out there, from state to state, east to west, north to south. It often has no rhyme or reason to those who have lived their lives elsewhere, but we all feel it and we all…

It should be noted that the intent of most of the garish paint jobs shown here was not to make the ships "invisible" while at sea. The idea was to make it difficult for an observer to determine the ship's facing and direction of travel. This was done to hopefully make it more difficult to target torpedoes and shells…