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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Please do this, because at the moment some "fashionable" fat people are wearing things clearly designed for slimmer people. Like low-rise jeans and belly shirts. San Francisco's gonna have another Summer of Love Handles.
The fallout of the Dan Savage column in which he had the temerity to suggest that only the most exceptionally fit women look good in navel-baring tops was stunning. He got letters from fat-acceptance people saying we basically don't have the right to make aesthetic judgments of what looks bad on people. Having an opinion was oppression to these people.
Fat-acceptance people should probably concentrate on something with broader public acceptance, like wider airline seats: helps you, helps me. I'll march to Birmingham for that one. But the "right" to be free from negative thoughts about your ass? Fatty, please.
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Uh, his recent column was about low-cut jeans and discussed how both men and women look shitty in this kind of thing unless they are fit. And he got a number of supportive letters too. And some letters (I think, or someone posted) about how it's hard to find anything between "I have to get a brazilian to wear this" and "I look like my grandma" waistlines. So perhaps NFH can help get some clothes out there that don't look like utter crap but aren't only made for rude twiggies.
Have fun on the march to Birmingham. I was unaware that airline seat oppression had jumped up to take the place of racial oppression down there. I associate them with BMW or Mercedes or soemthing, not Boeing or Airbus. The things I learn from the FB.
