Speaking of "Fatness"

Some link love, for ya...

Mopie and company have a new home for Big Fat Deal. I love the fuller figured "mud flap naked lady" on the header, and the lay-out is just great all around. If you don't read this blog (although you probably already do; Mo is something of an internet celebrity), it's about issues around weight and size and how they are portrayed in the media. If you want to read intelligent blog posts by people who are rightfully outraged by the negative depictions of fat (and sometimes not even fat, just not skinny) people in pop culture then this is the place for it.

Note: I like Big Fat Deal because it's intelligent and entertaining, but also because it doesn't criticize people for wanting to lose weight. There is another blog, Big Fat Blog, which is strictly fat acceptance focused. I'm all for fat acceptance and strongly feel that the bias people have against fat has very little to do with health and way more to do with appearance and negative assumptions about the personalities of fat people. (I also feel that some of the supposed health risks of obesity are exaggerated.) And that's the focus of Big Fat Blog. However, I must confess I don't read this one, although I respect what they're doing because I do want to be thinner, and I don't feel reading that blog is encouraging on that front (not being sarcastic here, although I realize it may have sounded that way).

Speaking of exagerated health risks, I am reminded of yet anotherblog: Junk Food Science where I've been stopping by lately. Ms. Szwarc does a great job of looking behind the headlines and the interpretations of scientific studies on health and weight and makes some convincing arguments against the claims that there is an Obesity Epidemic. The main message I take away from her blog is that we need to just chill in the face of the media and people who want us to buy their products by scaring us about health claims that are often not even true if you examine them, and Szwarc examines them for us. Thanks.

Labels: blogging, fat

posted by Miss Rachel 4/02/2007 06:50:00 AM

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