1) This little girl is complaining about the very thing I was getting out in Bad Santa Part II: gender policing. Yay for her supportive dad! 2) Feminists and family therapists take note: Sick [heterosexually-married] men get support from their wives. Sick [heterosexually-married] women get... divorced. (Gay people don't exist, and single people die in a ditch, I guess.) 3)...[ read more ]
I've been working on a post about family therapy and the "Occupy" movement for what seems like weeks now, and meant to get it finished over the Thanksgiving holiday, but other projects got in the way. (I mean what would I wear to Dickens Fair if I didn't finish sewing buttons on my skirt and dressing my hat?) [caption id=""...[ read more ]
From cartoonist Ampersand, a piece about what Kate Harding called the "Fantasy of Being Thin":
A quick update to highlight this post by the awesome Ragen Chastane: Or, as she and Marilyn Wann and others have noted, the only thing you can tell for sure from looking at a fat person is how much prejudice you carry about fat people.
So today is Love Your Body Day according to the National Organization for Women's NOW Foundation, an endeavor I fully support. As a believer in Size Acceptance and Health at Every Size, I want to make every day "Love Your Body Day," for everyone. But I notice things. Things like the fact that there are no fat bodies represented in...[ read more ]
