Arthur D. Hlavaty

The Business, as Usual

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 10:31:30 GMT

COVID and the moral panic over obesity [Lawyers, Guns, & Money]

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Another -ism

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:11:11 GMT

Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong [Huffington Post]

Thanx to Metafilter

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Alleged Satire

Tue, 22 Dec 2020 14:21:21 GMT

Fat Lady Attempts to Get Health Care [McSweeney’s]

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They hate big butts and they can lie

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 18:13:34 GMT

Teenage swim champ disqualified for showing intergluteal cleft. [Deadspin]

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Childhood indoctrination

Fri, 16 Aug 2019 10:32:30 GMT

Weight Watchers Is Harming Kids For Money [Dances with Fat]

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Phobia

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 10:49:39 GMT

51 Ways to Make the World Less Hostile to Fat People [Broadly]

Thanx to Metafilter

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“No! We might run into one of my buddies.”

Sun, 27 May 2018 10:10:58 GMT

Good enough for sex, not good enough to be seen with [Ravishly]

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Give me the child

Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:58:25 GMT

The case against letting teens join Weight Watchers

Thanx to nwhiker

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Large

Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:31:32 GMT

Fat characters in sf.

Thanx to SFWA

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Tossing one weapon aside

Sun, 08 Oct 2017 11:07:46 GMT

If we stop body-shaming Dolt45, we will still be in no danger of running out of vicious things we can truthfully say about him.

Thanx to andrewducker

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“Busty”

Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:16:32 GMT

Plus-size teen fails to shop at plus-size store, thus looking gigantically gross or diabolically sexy, I forget which. Gaze upon her at your own risk.

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Contradictory twofers

Fri, 01 Sep 2017 10:18:01 GMT

“When Asian American faces were doctored to appear heavier, they were rated as significantly more American as the same Asian American faces doctored to be thinner.”

Thanx to Slate Star Codex

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William Howard Taft lived in vain

Mon, 07 Aug 2017 09:17:38 GMT

Along with everything else that’s wrong with antifat prejudice, maybe it’s bad for the Democrats.

Thanx to nancylebov

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Pitiful, helpless giants

Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:57:01 GMT

Are meganations too big to succeed?

Thanx to Follow Me Here

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Coopted

Sat, 29 Apr 2017 09:32:30 GMT

The “body positivity” sellout.

Thanx to Metafilter

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Haters gonna hate

Wed, 29 Mar 2017 11:08:13 GMT

Some of the differently intelligent people who think fat people wouldn’t be fat if they exercised also think Nike shouldn’t make clothes for them to exercise in.

Thanx to andrewducker

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“Endowment slider”

Wed, 01 Feb 2017 11:45:02 GMT

New video game lets you choose your character’s dick size (NSFW examples).

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Victoria’s Real Secret

Mon, 16 Jan 2017 12:27:39 GMT

No one actually looks like that.

Thanx to andrewducker

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Numbering

Wed, 27 Jan 2016 12:06:13 GMT

Food calories are a sloppy approximation.

Thanx to andrewducker

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Special

Tue, 29 Sep 2015 09:53:49 GMT

The Iron Law of Euphemism states that any euphemism will last only as long as it takes for people to notice that it refers to the same offensive concept, and then the euphemism will need a euphemism. I expect some day to hear children crying, "Mommy! Bobby said a bad word! He called me special!" Large women are special.

Thanx to Metafilter

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Not sorry

Mon, 03 Aug 2015 19:25:32 GMT

Fat Anti-Assimilationist. Uses language.

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Fake epidemic

Wed, 20 May 2015 13:19:18 GMT

As one scientist said, "If all science were run like marijuana research, creationists would control paleontology." Obesity research is a lot like that.

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Today in fat fear

Tue, 05 May 2015 10:35:25 GMT

The fat woman menace

The fat child menace

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Select, don't settle

Wed, 04 Feb 2015 10:38:45 GMT

Fat sex on your own terms

Thanx to Body Impolitic

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The Photoshop Diet strikes again

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 20:16:14 GMT

All-Girls' High School Retouches Photos to Make Students Look Thinner

Thanx to Jezebel

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