HUNGRY is not an attractive look on a woman….

Great guest post from Chris … Someone posted a picture today that really made me stop and think about perceptions and the definition of beauty. Think about it, who do women dress for? Other women. How many women live on a diet? I don’t know about you, but practically every woman I know is striving [...]

BEDA Launched First Annual National Weight Stigma Awareness Week

The Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA) launched launched its first annual National Weight Stigma Awareness Week, September 26-30, 2011. The objectives of this event were to build awareness of what weight stigma is, the harmful effects weight stigma can have on people of all ages in all environments, and what can be done to stop it. [...]

Read My Hips

This is an excerpt from WATRD Contributor Kim Brittingham’s book Read My Hips. See accolades at the bottom of the page! —— I don’t ever remember my mother being fat, and yet I clearly remember her dieting.  When I was growing up, she read many women’s magazines — Redbook, Family Circle, Woman’s Day.  As a stay-at-home [...]

Fatshionable Women Featured In French Glamour Magazine

Ok, I think a miracle has occurred — fat women in a FRENCH magazine?? Read more on Fatshionable! Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about it

Hey Fatty, there’s a weight limit on leggings & skinny jeans.

There’s this super cool, Aussie chick named Natalie. She describes herself as follows; “I am a fancy lady: a bombastic beehive of peroxide, sass and anxiety. A creative bon vivant who proudly calls Brisbane home, I draw, design and advocate for fat acceptance. I think we should be friends.” So, there’s Natalie, just strumming along, [...]

Of Fatness and False Benevolence

Kim Bensen and Meme Roth are individually building careers out of harming fat people and calling it “help”. Their methods differ, but the game is the same.

The commonality between Bensen and Roth and others like them is an egocentric delusion. Each believes she has the one and only true answer to the “obesity problem”. They see themselves as crusaders; Florence Nightingales to the fat masses who can’t seem to help themselves, poor things.

But their “concern” for fat people is a sham – and not even the messiahs themselves are able to see it. To recognize it, and further to admit it, would shatter their apparently delicate psyches.

But I think it’s time to call the bullshitters on their phony benevolence, to bring into question their misguided “aid”. Let’s pull away the downy baby blankets that protect their deeper motivations to wage war on other people’s bodies.

I am a Fat-o-sphere Refugee

Today we welcome our very first GUY as a guest poster, I never thought I’d see the day! Shannon from Atchka reached out to me around the same time as The Zaftig Chicks, and he told me of a new feed he was setting up to support bloggers who considered themselves part of the Fat [...]

Weight Prejudice Lessons from a girl named Bene.

Thank you Vitty10 for sending a link to this video created by a biology student on the topic of Fat Prejudice.  According to Julie of Beautiful You, the Rudd Center for Food and Obesity Policy at Yale University were so impressed with this piece they have released it to the wider public.  Julie goes on [...]

Where's the acceptance in FAT acceptance?

When WATRD received an email from Bianca and Sylvia, aka “The Zaftig Chicks,” I was more than ready to listen to their story of “unacceptance” from the FA movement, since many of you know we have sparked a few riots around here.   But here is the cool part - The Zaftig Chicks felt so strongly about how they were being [...]

Betrayed by a fat actress

Since you all enjoyed Elizebeth Turnquist’s first post, here is another beauty. mamaV ————- I remember when Riki Lake was fat. Not just plump or curvaceous but unmistakably fat.  I was 15 in 1989 when I watched the made-for-TV movie “Babycakes”.  It was the first time I’d ever seen a fat woman in a non-comedic [...]

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