January 2012
Jennifer Jonassen
fatkidsunited:
If this works for you I’d love to share it on your site! Absolutely love your video. And as always you rock. Atchka, Ive always wanted to tell you that the work you do makes me feel safer somehow. Thank you for standing up to all the bullies out there! You’re definitely a hero!
Thank you for your kind words, Jennifer, and thank you for sharing your heart-rending, and...
Time Traveler —
Today, it has now been eight days since Strong4Life told me through its Twitter account that they were”research bkgrd is being collected” for the statistic on alleged parental neglect that justifies their campaign.
Eight days.
To me, this means they are hard at work spinning the data to reflect the multiple conflicting claims they have made about the 75% statistic.
With that in...
Roseanne Barr joins the fight
First Alton Brown.
Then Dan Savage.
Now Roseanne Barr.
Join the Call to Action against Georgia’s fat-shaming billboard campaign.
Call to Action —
Last week we covered the issue of Strong4Life’s shameless billboard campaign in Georgia exhaustively. You can catch up on the issue from every angle here:
Hammer Time —
Blue Light Special —
Three-Quarter Turn —
Humanitarian Aid —
Hippocritic Oath —
War and Profit —
Brave New World —
Cognitive Dissonance —
Day After Day —
Today, we are inviting people to join our Call to Action. We...
For the Children —
Hey. You got five minutes?
I know you do because you’re on Tumblr. You’ve probably got, like, three hours to kill, and if I can just have a fraction of your time (after you finish reading this), then you can make a direct, positive impact on the life of a child who feels like absolute shit right now.
In Georgia, there’s a billboard campaign featuring fat children over horrible...
Me: Am I free to assemble a protest of peaceful peers?
Government: Only with a permit.
Me: Am I free to travel?
Government: Only with a passport.
Me: Am I free to pursue my own ideas of happiness?
Government: Only within these constraints.
Me: Am I free to start a business?
Government: Only with a license.
Me: Am I free to marry who I wish?
Government: Only with my consent.
Me: Am I free?
Government: I'm legally obligated to say that you are.
Government: Stop asking so many questions.
If you're unfollowing me because of CHOA posts...
Fuck you.
We are bringing this campaign down and you can either be a part of it and help us by making phone calls and email, or you can go about your lives talking about activism and blogging like it matters.
Fat children in Georgia have had to endure this torment for long enough and we are taking a stand. If you can’t be bothered to stand with us, then go fuck yourself with the Washington...
Cognitive Dissonance —
After mentally exhausting myself from writing this monster, I did some cursory research and stumbled across something that blew my fucking mind. I have to share it.
It turns out that Dr. Stephanie Walsh, the Medical Director of Children’s Hospital of Atlanta who we’ve been calling all week, has a profile on Sharecare, a website where people can ask medical questions and get a...
War and Profit —
I’m not going to post the whole thing, but today’s post on Fierce, Freethinking Fatties is all about how Children’s Hospital of Atlanta has received over $375,000 in donations from Big Food corporations, most notably Coca-Cola. But that’s not even the one that will make your eyes pop out of your head. Read it and rage.
Then, take action.
We are calling on the Surgeon...
Want to send a unified message to Strong4Life?
I was banned from Strong4Life’s Facebook page for saying the following: “Shame on you, Strong4Life and CHOA. Shame on everyone who had a hand in this dehumanizing campaign.”
We are now asking everyone to “Like” Strong4Life’s Facebook page, then copy and paste this: Shame on you, Strong4Life and CHOA. Shame on everyone who had a hand in this dehumanizing...
Hippocritic Oath —
Warning: Please skip this post if you have a serious allergy to hypocrisy or irony.
This morning, I received a curious message from Strong4Life’s Twitter account:
First of all, am I the only one who finds it ironic that a group that has financed billboards insulting fat children got their pwecious wittle fee fees hurt?
But what struck me as odd is that for someone with a short fuse and...
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Humanitarian Aid —
In an effort to reduce the amount of bullying that gay teens endure, which contributes to an astonishing 20% increase in suicidal ideation among gay teens according to one study, the Atlanta School Board has released a new advertising campaign to address the heart of the matter.
In fairness, it’s modeled after the anti-bullying efforts of Strong4Life, which I learned about through this...
The surprising past of Miranda Hart →
amelieallbymyself:
After reading this, my admiration towards her has grown even more than before. People like her are worth of looking up to
gif by: Optimus-Primer
Wow. Miranda Hart, I want to hug you so hard!
Best photos of the year 2011
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Egypt
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England
Chile
Haiti
United States
Kenya-Somalia border
Pakistan
Ukraine
Tunisia
China
Libya
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Georgia
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Now that CHOA Communications Director Kevin McClelland is getting deluged with emails, he is sending out his sincerest, warmest thoughts to each and every person who has expressed their concern with Georgia’s “We Hate Fat Kids” campaign.
It’s particularly amazing how consistent his sincerity is when you compare and contrast his responses in Microsoft Word.
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Blue Light Special —
I have it on good authority that Children’s Hospital of Atlanta (CHOA) has been responding to email complaints (keep ‘em comin’!) about their unbelievably fat-shaming campaign (aka Operation Big, Dumb Bully) with a well-crafted response from Kevin McClelland, Director of External Communications for CHOA (if you get a response at all, which I didn’t).
Thanks to Mary...
Occupy CHOA —
You’ve wanted to do something about this fat hating culture for a while now, right? You’ve wanted to give a piece of your mind to the $60 billion diet industry, right? You’ve wanted to have a real and lasting impact on how our culture treats fat people, right?
Well, this is it. This is the moment you’ve been waiting for. Yesterday, I wrote about out the Children’s Hospital of Atlanta (CHOA)...
Hammer Time —
The following post on this horrible fat-hating campaign in Georgia originated on Fierce, Freethinking Fatties. Please help us put some pressure on the hospital that is funding this effort. Contact information is at the end of the article. Please, please, please reblog and share with everyone you know. Every voice makes us louder.
A while back, Deah expressed her disgust with Georgia’s Strong4Life...
valeriansays asked: shannon, that was an absolutely great post about the conflation of dieting and living a healthy life style. thanks!
No treadmill? Roads don't exist to be gawked at....
Ah, yes, the Bootstrap Mentality applied to exercise. Nothing better than shaming people for not having access the kinds of facilities and equipment that help make exercise more convenient for people to engage in.
Let’s break this bit of bullshit apart, shall we?
No treadmill? Roads don’t exist to be gawked at. Yeah, but fat people apparently are. Ask any fat person (particularly fat...
fruitsandlabor asked: I've been doing it for almost a year, thank you. And I do focus on eating healthy and exercising that's how I lost the weight. It isn't a diet, and I'm pretty sure 99% of these girls know, atchka. What the fuck kind of blog do you have anyway, and why are you following my weight loss blog? Just so you can put down others? We all start out somewhere, and I can guarantee you that...
thefuror1-deactivated20120224 asked: Your commentary about fat acceptance re: that guy who said horrible things about Raven was the best thing I've read on Tumblr in a very, very long time. Maybe ever.
pinkpeonied asked: you are glorious. that is all.
Sick of Fat Hatred on Huffington Post?
Rebecca Jane Weinstein is writing a book called Fat Sex and has just posted an article in the Huffington Post about the subject. Of course, the trolls are pouring in to tell Rebecca what a disgusting, lazy pig she is.
Up until about two months ago, I was a community moderator on Huffington Post who was asked to delete hateful comments toward fat people. I recently had my deletion privileges...
