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  1. Artemisia

    So what if you never find a partner?

    I have sort of an 'understanding' with my best friend that if we're ever alone -- like ALONE alone, with no reasonable end in sight -- one of us can move in with the other. I know I'm lucky to have such an amazing friend, though. :wubu:
  2. Artemisia

    The show your face/introduction thread

    Hey Mike, nice to see you back! Hope you keep safe where you are, and can return home soon. :)
  3. Artemisia

    Why are you here?

    I believe it. Whenever I say something to the effect of, "I don't want to be thin," I get anything from polite eye-aversions like obviously I must be lying, or, "Yeah, riiiight." Yeah, so, I've been thin and it almost killed me. I'm happy fat, thanks.
  4. Artemisia

    Why are you here?

    It's amazing how polarizing the word 'fat' has become in modern culture, isn't it? It's just a neutral descriptor, like short or tall, but it's turned into a word some people consider the worst insult you can throw at someone. I have a hard time talking about my activism and my fat positivity to...
  5. Artemisia

    Post pics of yourself....LIVING

    Thanks azerty, Marlayna, and Paul! The last one is a favorite, since I've been a big reader and writer since forever. Also, my dad was a radio dj and had a "golden voice of radio," and when I was 7 read my The Hobbit before bed every night, doing all the voices (he had a great Ent voice --...
  6. Artemisia

    Sci-Fi Literature; recommendations?

    There are a lot of good books in this thread. Some of my personal favorites (in no particular order): 1. Ursula K. Le Guin -- The Left Hand of Darkness is one of the best sci fi books ever written, hands-down. It is NOT of the action-tech variety, so if that's your poison, you might be...
  7. Artemisia

    Why are you here?

    I joined a couple years ago because I've been deeply involved in fat activism since 2007. The activism I do is so high-stress (as are my paid and unpaid jobs) that I wanted to have a place where I could relax and enjoy a more casual, forum-like atmosphere, and chat up some fat admirers and...
  8. Artemisia

    FA Myths Thread #16

    A logical fallacy based on the correlation of greater weight with age. It also erases fat men and women from the pool of common-wisdom 'sexy' people (who are usually young). Additionally, it assumes (as per the fatphobic typical) that there's no way a fat person can be found sexy, and therefore...
  9. Artemisia

    FA Myhts Thread #17

    The myth seems to be from a very non-FA perspective: people who just 'don't get' how others can find fat bodies sexy, so they assume that anyone dating a fat person must must be doing so for non-sexual reasons. Another instance of the fatphobic perspective projecting itself onto everyone and...
  10. Artemisia

    Post pics of yourself....LIVING

    Here's me at a computer science summer event (I help run it, I've been a student, I give the occasional talk, and mentor students): And here's another one of me learning to read: (okay, that one's really old :) )
  11. Artemisia

    Fat Person Only Gym?

    I'm not a fan of most plus-size-only gyms, as they seems to be little more than places to gather people susceptible to weight loss messaging in order to sell thin dreams ala the weight loss industry. Curves' front page is plastered with weight loss marketing, and Downsize Fitness claims to be...
  12. Artemisia

    How did you become so fat?

    That pesky heritability of my weight, and dieting myself the rest of the way up. Here's a pic of my great grandparents: and here's a pic of me: Hello, resemblance! :)
  13. Artemisia

    Weight Loss in the SA Movement

    Wow, I stumble back into this thread to discover that the massive failure rate of diets well-known in current obesity research has been successfully disproved by argument. How about some real studies to back up these claims? Ones that look at long-term maintenance past five years, have decent...
  14. Artemisia

    Bmi

    Yep, according to ye olde BMI I should drop dead tomorrow, but I run 2 miles a day and my numbers are excellent. I come from a long line of long-lived healthy fatties, too, so I don't expect it to change on its own, as long as I live healthily (while being a fat fat fatty, gasp!) :D
  15. Artemisia

    Compulsive Eaters May Have 'Food Addiction,' Study Finds

    As long as they use this study for what it actually shows -- that some women out of a tiny sample with higher "food addiction" scores have higher activity in some brain areas linked to reward -- and don't try to generalize to all fat people or fat women, we're good. However, it's unlikely...
  16. Artemisia

    Weight Loss in the SA Movement

    Thanks for your reply. I don't think we can make anyone believe in one basic definition of SA -- there are going to be some people who promote SA but actively denigrate intentional weight loss/gain because they strictly adhere to 'size acceptance' = 'accepting one's natural size (whatever that...
  17. Artemisia

    The daily exercise report thread!!

    40 min on elliptical, 2.3 miles at varying resistance levels (higher at the beginning, then tapering down to "1" at the end).
  18. Artemisia

    Weight Loss in the SA Movement

    ^Agreed with butch and mcbeth. Social movements are best defined by the members, not by a subset on behalf of everyone else. There's the question of meaningfulness, of course -- there has to be *some* common ground on which we all can stand. In my experience in SA, this common ground is...
  19. Artemisia

    The show your face/introduction thread

    I'm not interested in chatting, but thanks for the offer.
  20. Artemisia

    The show your face/introduction thread

    Hi, Mary! That pic is adorable. Nice to meet you! :)
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