Category Archives: Women’s Bodies

Are You Thirsting for a Man’s Approval of Your Body?

Geez it’s been a week of lowlights in the world of women and bodies that all have me wondering if we’re actually making any progress at all in turning around this life-limiting tide of negative critical bitching around women’s bodies.Continue Reading

It’s Stop Fat Talk Week – Can You Do It?

Fat Talk is that part of a conversation where we talk about our bodies in terms of the amount of fat on any given body part.

It’s that part of a conversation where someone says “Oh I’ll be ‘bad’ and have the cream/sugar/icecream/cake/rice/whatever”.Continue Reading

Measuring Fitness – Rant Warning!

Man I’m feeling *so* cranky sitting here reading a couple of blogs that it’s time I started making some noise about this nasty distortion! Backstory: I bought the wondermachine, a Thermomix, a few months ago – finally. I’ve wanted one for a couple of years and if you read my blog regularly you know thatContinue Reading

Loving Your Body Makes You Fatter?

It was very disappointing, distressing even, that maybe the most ‘famous’ body image advocate, Jess Weiner, recently spoke about how ‘loving her body made her ill’. Other than mentioning it I am not going to address it really, others have spoken at length about it. But what’s changed my mind is a couple of conversationsContinue Reading

Who Shapes Your Shape?

Fat Talk and How It Shapes Your Body Image I’m mulling over some conversations I’ve had this week about weight, and am aware that they’re really conversations about body image but that the women I was speaking with do not think they have any body image issues, it’s just normal and easy to talk aboutContinue Reading

It’s Fat Talk Monday, And Tuesday, and Wednesday….

What an interesting week of fat talk it’s been, and it’s only Wednesday! First up, research from the UK proved what a bitchy lot we women are, judging one another based on weight within 20 seconds of meeting! If that isn’t an indication that we’re ‘educated’ by media that fat is morally bad and fatContinue Reading