a little something nice about how fat is omg costing people so much of what they hold so very dear

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($$, that is.) (or maybe i should say imaginary $$, $$ of the conjectural chosen focus.)

CarrieP at Big Fat Blog sends us to a new Paul Campos interview at the Atlantic. She points out that the comment thread there is unusually thoughtful, compared to what often follows "obesity" pieces online. I haven't gotten that far with it yet myself, but I'm liking the interview, in bits and pieces today.

Comments

Re: here's the bit, amy/cohost/kessler

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i think i hear what you're saying here. and ftr (this woman i was chatting with yesterday used "ftr" for short, leaving me to wonder for half an hour what it might stand for, before i finally got "for the record") (so much for shorthand), no version of fat acceptance i know about is cheering for the food industry or for eating disorders (or disordered eating) or for clogged blood vessels or messed up insulin response or sickness or disease or death.

i do think the academic-ish tearing apart (or interrogating or dismantling or pick-your-fashion-word) of unexamined or insufficiently examined cultural practices can have quite real real-world effects. and is worthwhile. if often tedious and irritating and self-congratulatory and a lot of other objectionable/irritating things.