It's a Fucking "Yay Scale"
Fat! Fit? Fabulous! Meet the East Bay activists and researchers at the center of the new civil-rights movement known as Health at Every Size.
The article opens with fat-acceptance performance art by the shores of Lake Merrit. A woman, accosting pedestrians, asking them to please get up on a scale "covered with pink paint and sparkly silver paper. Silver pipe cleaners across the bottom spelled 'YAY!'" (What is it? a suspicious girl asks. Why, it's a Yay Scale, the woman replies.)
A fucking Yay scale? This is like, a half step up from giant sweatshirts with kitten appliques. Kittens with bows. In baskets.
But I love every one of these people, and I really love their message. The article features Marilyn Wann of Fat!So?, and is a pretty great, balanced look at fat acceptance and fat positive movements (particularly in the Bay Area), accepting yourself. It's got a lot of excellent resources, and reading it might have made me a little bit happy, all the way down to my shriveled black heart. A little.
Okay, fine! Yay.
posted by anne at 12:09 PM
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This reminds me of an article Diet-Blog had last month about a scale that compares you to the weight of a celebrity, topping out at "King Kong." I suppose if you got handy with a screwdriver, some masking tape and a sharpie you could do this to your own scale at home, assuming it's not digital.
I don't know if I'd find it that encouraging though. How does a scale know if you're gorgeous? It's like instructors on exercise DVDs who shout things like "Good job!" How do they know you're doing a good job?
I am trying, very hard, NOT to go to that site that compares you to the weight of a celebrity.
(Fails)
Oh, okay, it doesn't actually tell you what the featured celebrities weigh. Alas.
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