Just to let you folks know, we were on vacation two weeks ago, and have been catching up on things this week, so that’s why it’s been quiet here. Stay tuned!
Filed under: About the blog
January 17, 2012 • 2:14 am 0
Quick note on the look of the blog
I’ve just changed the blog’s “theme” (the template for its appearance) to “grid focus”, which I think is better looking and better organized. Just so you know.
Filed under: About the blog, Just Fun
January 1, 2012 • 1:03 am 0
Fatties United in 2011: a summary
The number-crunching robots of WordPress have prepared a year-end summary for Fatties United. If this interests you, take a peek!
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 26,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 10 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Click here to see the complete report.
Filed under: About the blog, Just Fun
June 25, 2011 • 3:52 pm 0
Follow Up to the Hypotheticals
Regarding my last post, I asked those questions because a couple of weeks ago, a woman found out that her (non-revealing) picture had been reposted to a porn site, and she blamed (at least in part) the moderator of FYCF because they had reposted it from the woman’s Tumblr. The FYCF moderator posted a multipart response, stating essentially, it’s not my fault, and anyway you should expect such things to happen.
I agree with the second part; any picture on the Internet can be copied or reposted, usually with ease. But I was puzzled that the moderator spent so much time trying to prove that the porn person didn’t get the pic from FYCF. Since the porn guy could have done so, and anyone could do so again, why protest so much?
Anyway, I wanted to know what you folks would do in that (or a less severe) situation. (No, I’m not planning on reposting your pictures here, I just thought it was interesting.) When I posted the questions, I thought that I wouldn’t care if a non-porn picture of me popped up on a porn site. (In any case, if it ever happens I’ll probably never know.) Now I realize that my image might imply approval of the site, so I’d probably demand that it be removed. So you guys (non-gender-specific use of the term) taught me something. Thank you!
Filed under: About the blog, Body image
April 28, 2011 • 3:15 am 0
Sorry About That …
For reasons unknown, the comments function got turned off on my last post. It was not intentional – very not intentional. I didn’t realize it happened until Whaliam’s eagle eye spotted that it said “Comments Off” at the end of my post and asked me why I did it. Um, I didn’t. (I just figured you were all tired of my seemingly never-ending HMO saga, and had nothing more to add!)
And the search was on to find out how you enable the comments. And it was a hunt, but we found it – and it wasn’t easy, so there was no way I just hit a wrong button with my happy fingers. Going to chalk it up to unhappy computer spirits.
The good news is, now I know where that is and I can reset it should it happen again.
Thanks for your patience and understanding.
Filed under: About the blog
March 12, 2011 • 3:28 pm 0
Admin note on comments
Just a quick note: we’ve changed our settings so that all comments are pending. This is just precautionary on our part and does not reflect the excellent quality of comments from our readers. Cheers!
Filed under: About the blog
January 16, 2011 • 7:25 pm 0
Brochure Update
Just a quick note that I’ve updated the brochure page here on Fatties United. There are new links to more of NAAFA’s brochures. (NAAFA developed several great handouts over the years, but until recently they hadn’t been transfered to NAAFA’s website.) Take a look!
Filed under: About the blog, Fat Rights Organizations, health, Size Discrimination
January 2, 2011 • 10:21 pm 2
2010 in review
For your amusement, I’m posting the following automatically generated post; feel free to read or ignore as you desire. –Whaliam
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.
About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 28,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 3 days for that many people to see it.
In 2010, there were 77 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 117 posts.
The busiest day of the year was March 13th with 430 views. The most popular post that day was Dr. Phil Making a Spectacle Out of Fatness? Say It ain’t So!.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were living400lbs.wordpress.com, fatnutritionist.com, Google Reader, fatfu.wordpress.com, and feeds.feedburner.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for young fatties, fatties, fatties united, old fatties, and fat slogans.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
1
Dr. Phil Making a Spectacle Out of Fatness? Say It ain’t So! March 2010
10 comments
2
TEARS FOR THE YOUNG FATTIES August 2010
5 comments and 1 Like on WordPress.com,
3
My fat ass and US Airways March 2010
9 comments
4
Fat Slogans September 2009
13 comments
5
Taking care of my fat ass June 2010
12 comments and 1 Like on WordPress.com,
Filed under: About the blog, Just Fun
July 31, 2010 • 10:02 pm 3
Dieters
I’ve probably mentioned this before, but it bears repeating (I’ll be brief). While the data show that dieting is unhealthy, and I don’t want diet talk here, I am against personally attacking dieters or thin people. I bring it up because Drew Carey lost some weight, and I’ve been reading some criticism about his appearance. I won’t do that and dislike it when others do, if nothing else because it makes fat activists look bad. OK bye!
Filed under: About the blog, health, Size Acceptance
November 16, 2009 • 8:16 pm 3
What if my boss sees this?
I don’t blog anonymously, but some do because they don’t want their internet history coming up in a job interview or a performance evaluation. I don’t think that’s an issue for me, but even so, I hardly ever say anything about fat acceptance to my coworkers, mostly because I’m there just to work. And in any case, it seems to be a (relatively) size-accepting workplace. There are a few fat people working there, and some coworkers have fat spouses. We started a wellness program this year, but it isn’t mandatory, and doesn’t seem to punish the fatties. There’s some breakroom diet talk, but I keep away from that as much as I can. Those who know that I’m into size acceptance seem to be OK with it.
But what if I have to change jobs? If they research me on the internet, they’ll find my fat acceptance writings as well as my work experience. I just checked, and even blog comments and petition signings show up. Scary if you think about it.
It’s not a new problem. The personal letters of famous people in history are now available for all to read. But average people used to have a “security by obscurity”. Now, nothing is truly obscure.
The answer, of course, is to be proud enough of everything you write that you have no misgivings about signing it. And, except for the odd (very odd) comment on someone’s facebook status, I do. And that means editing everything, even tweets. But that’s OK, because I’m an editor at heart.
But even so, I’m not in the clear. I find fat women attractive, and I’ve said so in writing. Some people have a problem with that, and that means that they might have a problem with me. While I’m not willing to hide my preference, I do self-censor by leaving out anatomical raves, for example.
So it’s a balancing act. And I plan to write more about this and other aspects of self-censorship in another post. In the meantime, how do you folks handle this?
Filed under: About the blog, Size Acceptance, Size Discrimination
