Airlines are adding additional rows of seats to the new models of 737s to increase the number of passengers they can carry. As legroom shrinks will we see the same sort of frenzy to charge taller passengers extra for encroaching into shorter people's legroom as we've seen directed at fat passengers?

Yeah, I just bet we will.

So, we've got a web article that explains how long you'd have to exercise in order to "burn off" different foods from chain restaurants.

A donut? 59 minutes of walking

An egg McMuffin? 32 minutes of running.

A chocolate chip cookie? 62 minutes of biking.

How can this be presented as anything other than wild comedy? An hour of walking in order to justify eating a donut? or of biking in order to eat a cookie? What this article is claiming is that if you ever eat a tasty fast food treat you'll need to exercise for an unreasonable amount of time or else it will make you OMG fat! And let's not even deal with the overly simplistic calories-in-calories-out calculus.

I can so easily see most people who haven't been exposed to Health at Every Size or Fat Acceptance reading this article and coming to the conclusion that it's never worth it to eat a donut, or a cookie.

What a sad, screwed up thought.

A new study shows that fat, white Americans are more likely to report that they've been victims of discrimination than thinner people. The study seems to focus primarily on respndents' perceptions, not whether or not discrimination actually occurs. But nowhere does the article indicate that discrimination on the basis of body size is wrong, nor does it discuss the possibility that fat Americans of all races are indeed discriminated against. I found the completely distanced, neutral tone of the article jarring. Even if the study at hand was not focused on these issues, someone could have been quoted about them, to flesh (heh! flesh!) out the full story.

Still hard-hearted

Months later, I just googled "hard hearted yankee bitch" again and YESSSSSS it pulls up my blog and only my blog! Score!

Seeding Google

I just googled the phrase "hard hearted yankee bitch" because I feel like one of them today, and I got no hits. So I decided I needed to post that phrase, just because. Because today I am a hard hearted yankee bitch.

Fat transplant patients allowed to get sicker while waiting for organs, blamed for their own ill health

The very obese wait longer for organ transplants, up to ONE YEAR longer. The likely reason is that doctors view the obese as being at greater risk for complications and death, therefore donor organs are more likely to go to slimmer patients.

Well, you know why the obese patients might be doing worse? Because you're making them wait months and years longer than other patients for a transplant, giving them plenty of time to get sicker. And then you're blaming their weight for their failure to do well after a transplant!

Patients are being denied treatment, and then blamed for it. Words cannot express the cruelty of this situation.

After an Eternity of Pressure to be Thin, the Universe Caves

"The universe just got a little bit slimmer. Revised calculations indicate the universe contains less normal and dark matter than previously thought, resulting in a "weight loss" of 10 to 20 percent."

New Measurements: The Universe Weighs Less

When interviewed, the Universe credited sensible eating and exercise for its weight loss. "I feel so much happier now! I don't understand why all of the other Universes don't do what I've done. It's not a matter of dieting, it's a whole new lifestyle."

The Universe's mother promptly began pressuring the Universe's sister to lose weight, leading to laden silences and flung recriminations at Thanksgiving dinner.