Some of the articles that have caught my eye in this morning’s perusal of the news:

• From the “Sitting Around The House” Department: A wonderful You Tube Video from Joy Nash, ranting on some of the fat haters of this world. Our society has been obsessing over obesity, and it has become one of the few things that folks think is acceptable to pick on ( Read more... )

[An observation whilst the morning tea cools... note that the tea is black, no sweetners]

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that, as a result of the battle of obesity (being fought because UBL is overweight, I guess), schools have started to ban birthday cupcakes. For example, Orange County's Saddleback Valley Unified School District now only ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I posted a link to a wonderful post written by a sales assistant at Lane Bryant about the clueless skinny's who walked in wanting to know why the store didn't carry fashionable clothes in their sizes. The response showed how the sales assistant cut the skinny down to size, so to speak. Do read the post, it's great ( Read more... )

Those who know me well know that I love fubsy women (i.e., "chubby and somewhat squat"). Well, I enjoy watching all women, but I particularly enjoy those with curves in all dimensions.

Today, there was a wonderful post in customers_suck titled "fat chicks don't deserve cute clothes". Those of you not into anorexic models must read it. It is wonderful!

In my last post, I wrote about McDonalds attempting to market physical exercise, while surrupticiously marketing McDonalds. I noted how McDonald's goal is really not to fight obesity.

Now, for the other side of the issue. There are two articles in the Media and Marketing section of today's Wall Street Journal of interest. The first notes how the ( Read more... )

The New York Times is reporting that is it no longer just Dove moving to real women in their ads. Madison Avenue is increasingly interested in using everyday women in advertising instead of just waifish supermodels. We now have ads from Nike and Chicken of the Sea using less-than-perfect models ( Read more... )

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Patgund, one of my LJ friends, pointed a reference to this story from misia in his LJ blog. This is best characterized by the line in the entry that says "Never let it be said that a naked fat woman can't get no respect."

Wonderful story. Way to go misia!

[Meme snarfed from, oh yeah, me (cahwyguy)]

1. Ask yourself five questions that you would ask yourself if you were interviewing yourself
2. Update your LJ with the five questions answered
3. Include this explanation
   

And it just keeps going, and going, and going (hopefully!)

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