tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post2049341750520987733..comments2024-03-22T05:55:48.117-04:00Comments on The Pervocracy: Everything's gotta be good or bad for you these days.Cliff Pervocracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02080142422250604406noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-51006217643449912632010-03-22T20:47:46.376-04:002010-03-22T20:47:46.376-04:00I gotta say, I don't love Kate Harding's b...I gotta say, I don't love Kate Harding's blog/writing, for some of the same reasons you've already suggested. I don't like that Shapely Prose will ban you, or block your comment, if you express disagreement with any of the principles of their fat-acceptance philosophy (that deliberate weight loss is never okay, that you can't lose weight & keep it off, that "it's okay for you to be fat, but I want to lose weight" isn't a valid stance). The idea that NO ONE needs to lose weight or should ever try is very radical; reasonable people should be able to disagree about how these issues of health/acceptance/discrimination interact, without being banned or mocked for it. And insisting that you're not really "fat acceptance" until you've accepted the divine truth of these teachings into your heart... I dunno... it smack of "political correctness" in the original 1930's sense, where if you don't toe the party line, you're out of the party.<br /><br />The above makes it sound like like I'm a bitter ex-Shapely Prose commenter, but I'm really not. I just think it's a shame, because about 1/2 of what that blog has to say is really important & commonsensical.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-68419795381514708642010-03-21T23:22:43.568-04:002010-03-21T23:22:43.568-04:00Anon - Eh, I just read it as "a woman who fig...Anon - Eh, I just read it as "a woman who figured out that $1 app x silly news story = a couple thousand bucks at least."Cliff Pervocracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02080142422250604406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-33936894187681123322010-03-21T21:28:56.979-04:002010-03-21T21:28:56.979-04:00"A woman desperate to get her lazy boyfriend ..."A woman desperate to get her lazy boyfriend to exercise" --<br /><br />Is anyone else reading that as "a woman desperate to get her lazy boyfriend to 'exercise'"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com