No, that is not an ironic subject title, it is a taxpayer-funded field of study at NZ's Massey University.
And sorry, it's not a study of the effects of lifelong obesity and the health problems it causes, but it is a study into how to get fat people laid.
Led by the enormous American refugee to NZ, the beautifully-named Cat Pause, and her not-quite-as-enormous-but-still-very-substantial friend, Substantia Jones, this year's conference, entitled: Fat Studies: Identity, Agency and Embodiment.
I hear restaurateurs in Palmy have all ordered new BMWs in anticipation of a very good week.
Another piece on the subject appeared today, (by someone who isn't fat) and it included a phrase I thought needed highlighting, because it's been said a lot in defence of fat people in recent years:
That is outright bollocks, and history proves that point.
At no time has being grossly obese been considered sexy. There have been societies where fatness was a sign of wealth, and therefore attractive from that perspective, but I know of no time when it was considered attractive to be a gigantic tub of lard. Certainly perceptions of beauty have included larger sizes, but there's a ton of french fries between an 18th-century full figure and the white whales of the 20th & 21st centuries.
The idea that electronic media has driven fat-shaming is nonsense. Fat kids have been bullied at school for as long as there have been schools, and long before TVs were commonplace, let alone the internet. The big difference is, there were hardly any fat kids in the past.
I'm more than happy for people to be as huge as they wish, but it is not a natural or healthy state to be in and this current trend of trying to "change attitudes" seems like trying to make obesity normal.
Protip: Do NOT search Google for Substantia Jones unless you want to see lots of photos of extremely fat women with no clothes on. Very tastefully done, she's an artiste, I believe.
And sorry, it's not a study of the effects of lifelong obesity and the health problems it causes, but it is a study into how to get fat people laid.
Led by the enormous American refugee to NZ, the beautifully-named Cat Pause, and her not-quite-as-enormous-but-still-very-substantial friend, Substantia Jones, this year's conference, entitled: Fat Studies: Identity, Agency and Embodiment.
I hear restaurateurs in Palmy have all ordered new BMWs in anticipation of a very good week.
Another piece on the subject appeared today, (by someone who isn't fat) and it included a phrase I thought needed highlighting, because it's been said a lot in defence of fat people in recent years:
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...anyone brainwashed by a mainstream media obsessed with thinness, smoothness, flawlessness and other conventional notions of what constitutes an attractive body... |
At no time has being grossly obese been considered sexy. There have been societies where fatness was a sign of wealth, and therefore attractive from that perspective, but I know of no time when it was considered attractive to be a gigantic tub of lard. Certainly perceptions of beauty have included larger sizes, but there's a ton of french fries between an 18th-century full figure and the white whales of the 20th & 21st centuries.
The idea that electronic media has driven fat-shaming is nonsense. Fat kids have been bullied at school for as long as there have been schools, and long before TVs were commonplace, let alone the internet. The big difference is, there were hardly any fat kids in the past.
I'm more than happy for people to be as huge as they wish, but it is not a natural or healthy state to be in and this current trend of trying to "change attitudes" seems like trying to make obesity normal.
Protip: Do NOT search Google for Substantia Jones unless you want to see lots of photos of extremely fat women with no clothes on. Very tastefully done, she's an artiste, I believe.
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