David Berreby – The obesity era. Years ago, after a plane trip spent reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground and Weight Watchers magazine, Woody Allen melded the two experiences into a single essay.
‘I am fat,’ it began. ‘I am disgustingly fat. I am the fattest human I know. I have nothing but excess poundage all over my body. My fingers are fat. That, as we used to say during my Californian adolescence, was then. And so the authorities tell us, ever more loudly, that we are fat — disgustingly, world-threateningly fat. Moral panic about the depravity of the heavy has seeped into many aspects of life, confusing even the erudite. Several governments now sponsor jauntily named pro-exercise programmes such as Let’s Move! Hand-in-glove with the authorities that promote self-scrutiny are the businesses that sell it, in the form of weight-loss foods, medicines, services, surgeries and new technologies.
Fuckyeahtattoos: My uncle bought me this book... Fuckyeahtattoos: I have schizoaffective disorder... The Frenemy., Pictures of Girls Eating At first look, these... Pictures of Girls Eating At first look, these photos are exactly what the title says they are- a whole bunch of pictures of a whole bunch of ladies munchin’ on some food.
However, what I really want you to do with this shitty ‘done on Microsoft Word because I can’t afford Photoshop’ collage is to take note of a very specific thing. That thing, of course, is happiness. These pictures are all happy. There’s a lot of smiling and mayo mouths and jam hands and rosy beer cheeks. Girls this generation get a bad wrap and a bad hand of cards. The other important thing is, how many pictures have you seen like this? I’ll tell you another thing- the moment I asked people to submit photos, I got over 200. I could take this time to talk about the dark paths we’ve all been down. But guess what? So yeah, at first glance it’s a bunch of pictures of some girls eating food. At the core of it all, though, it’s just beautiful girls being happy and free and loving themselves at the moment.
Bloggess is right about stuff. Apparently bikini waxes and piercings aren't enough anymore, and now voluntary surgery is the new black.
Before I read up on vagina surgery, I would never have guessed what a “good vulva” looks like, but now I know. And I’ll warn you, don't look it up, because no matter what yours looks like, you’ll be second-guessing your vagina afterward. In a nutshell, plastic surgeons have decided that you need enormous trout-pout lips on your face, and utterly invisible ones on your vagina. Now, when people ask me “Are you an innie or an outie?” I’ll forever wonder if they’re referring to my belly button or my vagina. And either way, my answer will be the same: It’s none of your motherfucking business. Who decided this? Here’s the low-down though, just in case you happened to find this page while searching for “What kind of vagina should I ask my surgeon for?” Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to shave my pubic hair into a giant middle finger.
Project BodyTalk. The Best Thing You'll See All Day: Local News Anchor Has On-Air Message for Viewer Who Called Her Fat. I have seen DOZENS of posts like this on Jezebel and bit my tongue.
I am SICK of this kind of support. I agree that we should be NICE and respectful to each other, and yes overweight people absolutely do deserve that respect, and guess what? The news anchor was not disrespected, the email that she has gotten (although unwelcome) was rather polite. Yes, bullying is a problem, but I feel like these days any type of criticism is being labeled as "bullying. " "Mind your own business" you say? Stop the Fat Jokes! The commander of NATO is insisting that the West do more to protect Ukraine from a possible Russian invasion.
But the Obama administration has other plans. Late last month, as the world was still reeling from Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO was warning Congress that Moscow was preparing to make another move. During classified briefings on March 26 and March 27, Gen. Philip Breedlove painted for members of the House Armed Services Committee a bleak picture of Russia’s actions—and warned that the United States was not taking steps it could to help Ukraine better defend itself.
On several points—from estimates of Moscow’s troops to intelligence-sharing with Russia’s likely adversaries—Breedlove’s briefing directly contradicted the message coming from other branches of the Obama administration. The quiet protests from one of Obama’s most important generals at the moment reveal an important policy rift inside the administration. U.S. Rep. Emma Thompson: "Put On Weight And Say F*** Off"