Scroll down on the comments on a fat acceptance/size acceptance post that mentions thin privilege, and odds are excellent you’ll find something to the effect of “But I’m thin, and I get crap too! I don’t have ’size privilege’!”1 Those of us who have been around the fat-o-sphere any length of time have heard this [...]
* Knitting as a method of self-soothing and to avoid the temptation to slap one’s classmates and/or teacher sort of backfires when one finds oneself contemplating the garotte potential of circular knitting needles. Ahem.
* You know what one of the risk factors for atherosclerosis1 is? Burning proteins and lipids for energy. You know one of [...]
I have no desire or intention to police others’ bodies. We can talk about the social pressures that lead to high rates of cosmetic surgery, dieting, body hatred — but to confuse a need for systemic critique with a right to criticize individuals is one of the worst uses of feminism.
But.
And.
So.
How we talk about our [...]
Dear Health Care Provider,
No, I am not “willing to reconsider” intuitive eating and Health At Every Size. And by your asking me that, I’m going to guess you don’t have much idea of what they are, so let’s start with a review.
Health At Every Size says that there is so much we can do to [...]
There’s a point to this post, I swear. But first, have some cuteness.
First order of business: shower. But since the Boychick was not in the mood, a diversion needed to be found. A purple, purple diversion:
I swear I didn't encourage the purple — see the other colors there??
And why did I need a shower [...]
And honey, that ain’t an insult.
Watch the brilliance of Joy Nash in A Fat Rant and Fat Rant 3: Staircase Wit1. (I found Fat Rant 2 to be too problematic with its portrayals of various compulsive disorders to recommend it, but I adore both of the other two.) I’ll wait.
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Done? Good. Take a [...]
I hate this question. I really, really hate this question. And as a massage therapy student, I get it fairly regularly, even among my “progressive”/”crunchy” friend set. I also hear from prospective massage students that this is a question they get bombarded with from skeptical people.
Here’s why I hate it:
It assumes there’s such a thing [...]
That, of course, is the first rule of nutrition. And there are no other rules.
I just read this fabulous post over at Spilt Milk: Let us eat cake, and in the comments, in my own rambling, I had something of a revelation, immediately followed by a reality check:
I said that the Boychick never “doesn’t like” [...]
Welcome to RMB’s Naked Pictures of Faceless People, a series of guest posts from diverse anonymous bloggers. (Read more about NPFP’s origins.) These are the posts that are jumping to get out of us, but for whatever reason — safety, embarrassment, conflict of interest, protection of loved ones’ reputations or feelings, or so on [...]
Around here, we do — or aim for — intuitive eating for the whole family. We started with breastfeeding on cue; we did self-feeding (also called baby-led weaning, with the British definition for “wean”: to introduce anything other than milk) with the Boychick since he first had solids at 7mo, eating the same food we [...]