Where's your evidence that this change is confusing for students studying for the SATs. I hate to break it to you, but the evidence is pretty strong that all language learners are pretty good at code switching and knowing when to use which registers.

I want good things for Edith. That doesn't include high tailing it to Berlin and becoming a German citizen shortly before WWII.

In my fondest dreams, the final scene of the final Downton Abbey episode is set in the swinging 60s and Edith is the last Crawley standing and is throwing a wild party the way only awesome old ladies with zero fucks to give and infinity amazing stories to tell can, at what is now just her old home she visits…

I cringed when I read the headline to this, and you just spelled out why. I mean, did Oprah ever do anything like this, or anything that you've listed? No, she listened. She had conversations with people. She went to Africa (and lived like Oprah), but she conversed with the locals and saw how they lived. Through…

I'm not seeing the same thing you are here. Which is not to say you're wrong, only that there might be more than one way to see it. For me, she's talking about being a girl, and reading a book in which a girl is a hero, as opposed to The Hobbit, which contains pretty much zero girls in it. Might that have made a…

I don't see this as a positive step at all. There must be better ways to develop empathy. These are, after all, the caring professions.

I have plantar fascitis (or at least I think I do), but I know that if I go to the doctor the first thing they will say is to lose weight. I've been trying to lose weight, but it's hard. Weight gain can cause many issues. I do think that this suit will help some people understand, but they could never fully comprehend…

This all the way! I am moderately overweight, I guess, my doctor rarely mentions it unless it's necessary. I weigh in between 90 - 100kg. I have been told horrid things. I tried running for awhile because I love to run, but fuck, the comments from idiots in their car had me in tears every single time. I mentioned this…

This seems to be a common theme, people trying to gain empathy for a disadvantaged group by literally putting themselves in their shoes. Being poor for a day, dressing up in a fat suit, disguising yourself as a different ethnicity, wearing blindfolds, going around in a wheelchair, etc.

You know, I'm sort of bored in my current career and every once in awhile toy with the idea of getting certified as a personal trainer and starting a body-positive training studio. So often it seems like the fitness community tries to use self-loathing as motivation for a person to lose weight, while I've always…

I was just thinking it's so messed up that when I saw a new doctor for something earlier this week and he said that my recovery would be no problem for a "healthy, young person such as yourself" that I actually felt grateful that he acknowledged that I'm healthy. I know that I'm healthy, but I always assume that when…

It's so sad that I have to be grateful for the medical professionals who actually listen when I point out that I have an injury and want to fix it to resume my exercise routine instead of assuming that all of my pain is caused by fat.

They don't know their patient's limitations unless they ask. That isn't about size. How do they empathize for the average sized person who can't do those things. My dad cannot do any of those things due to illness, but he has always been skinny to average sized.

Hmmm...a very fit person who is classified as obese could very well be a big, muscular person who weights a lot but isn't "fat". Is that what you mean? Or do you mean overweight people who exercise a few days a week and don't have the usual obesity-related diseases? Because those people also exist. Of course, that…

I wouldn't take much of these claims seriously. For instance: Omega 6 for heart health? You can find many studies showing the exact opposite. Everything is person dependent. There needs to be more studies on obtaining nutrients from nutrient dense foods vs supplements. Foods may contain neccesarry cofactors improving…

I feel you. I'm not at the point of needing surgery (at least bariatric surgery - the less said about my knees the better) but what every health practitioner doesn't realize is that I would have to go on a near-starvation diet (the endocrinologist told me to aim for 1000 calories a day) in addition to my regular…

Unfortunately for her, she chose to launch this retreat at the same time that another unfortunate white feminist soul launched a twitter campaign called #stopblamingwhitewomenweneedunity.

I remember Tyra Banks, of all people, being put into a fat suit and putting prosthetics on and going out in public. By the end of the segment she was crying on the street because of how people were treating "her." Sadly, I don't believe this suit is one that would make the wearer actually appear obese to bystanders,…

I hate the whole, let me wear a fat suit bullshit. For one, the suits they pick are usually grotesque looking. Additionally, yeah, I think anyone is going to feel out of breath and restricted in a rubber suit. That's not how being fat feels, esp. if you know, actually excercise and are used to your own weight (and…

Eh, I don't know...it actually makes me think that this might make them more judgmental of fat people? because they'll be like OMG, how can people stand living like this, people should hurry up and be not-fat by any means possible. I'm overweight by quite a bit, but becoming overweight in the course of a lifetime is…