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Any article about fat people wanting to be seen and treated as human beings always brings out the comments of, “We need to stop pretending it’s healthy to be obese.” No one said that. No reasonable person has ever said that. The whole article is just about treating people like people.… Read More

I have never seen anyone claim being obese is good for your health. But can an obese person be admired for other aspects of who they are? Why is a fat person just *fat* and a bad example? While other obviously unhealthy people (smokers, drinkers, sedentary junk food addicts), as long… Read More

I came to the comments knowing there would be one. It’s actually really unhealthy to be…unhealthy. You can do that while fat or thin. It’s unhealthy to vape, to neglect routine dental care, to drink more than a handful of drinks per week. But we don’t insist the people who engage… Read More

The doctors would make plenty of money off of all the follow up tests and procedures for whatever abnormalities the test finds. Everyone’s body has benign lumps and weird things - investigating all of them can bankrupt people and actually harm them physically and mentally. That’s… Read More

There’s a difference between “no sleepovers” and carefully vetted sleepovers. I would never let my daughter sleepover at a home if I didn’t know the parents well and had been in their house. Some of her friends’ parents were okay with their very small kids sleeping over anywhere they… Read More

Julie Taylor on Friday Night Lights. The story line always involved her parents trusting her or “knowing she was a good kid” but she wasn’t. She was a brat about her little sister, she lied and she made horrible choices. She was the worst.

I work in the south in what would be considered a conservative field. There are people in our office with dreads and Afros. The Vice President of my department has an Afro. But bright platinum blonde or pink or something would be a definite no. I’m sorry that your experience is different.… Read More

I read many of the comments and I get that there’s frustration over white women wearing hairstyles that used to be criticized and discriminated against. BUT - (1) In professional offices in 2020 natural and protective hairstyles are complimented and admired, (2) I would be fired or… Read More