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Blog posts December 2010

The Fattie Manifesto

Bouncing off of my last post Re: FA on the forum, a dear, sweet regular of mine had this great brainstorm.  I've got it posted on the front page now, in our Guild and am sharing it here.  I don't expect anyone to jump on this with meus at the forum, …

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Rant

I may have mentioned before that I run a fat acceptance thread on a very large forum on the interwebs.  This thread has been the target of so many attacks lately I just cannot believe it.  It hasn't been this bad since I first created it three years …

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Banana vs. Hershey's Kisses

So this morning is the first one where the days are officially longer than they were before; it's only by 1 second, sure but I'll take what I can get!  As a result, there is a LOT of great food leftover here at my house from our Solstice gathering la…

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Phenomenal Folks

     It's getting close to the end of the year here (and just about everywhere else, I suppose) which always makes me a little nostalgic, a little introspective.  Tonight is the lunar eclipse (peaking at 3:17am EST) and tomorrow night is the l…

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Split attention span

Lately I've been spending a lot of time playing around on Twitter in the #prochoice area.  This inevitably leads to people from the #prolife side of things to post.  Sometimes both sides use both tags.  It's really really interesting, and sometimes f…

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Totally Awesome

I'm a big fan of Joy Nash's Fat Rant (I think many of us are.  If you haven't seen it yet, you will!) so when I found this little snippet a big grin found itself plastered all over my face.  It reminds me a lot of my friend E and I when we used to go…

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Remember remember the 6th of December

Trigger warning for violence against women.

 

Today is the 21st anniversary of the massacre at Polytechnique school in Montreal.  14 women were gunned down while attending classes by a man who proclaimed he ws 'fighting feminism'.  From the Wiki:

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