Category: Liking Yourself

  • Holier-than-thou, and getting holier.

    So, I just read this editorial-slash-book-review, or whatever it’s supposed to be. The most striking thing, to me, is the writer’s use of moralizing, sin-a-licious language: In theory, I’m a food libertarian and don’t believe the state should take responsibility for curbing individuals’ greed.” [Emphasis mine.] And her…colourful…use of hyperbole, which wouldn’t be entirely out-of-place…

  • All women are real.

    I was reading the NAAFA blog’s latest update on the casting for a new TV show, and this stopped me dead in my tracks: “More To Love is by the same guys that do “The Bachelor” for ABC and is essentially the same show, except all the gals on the show are real girls with…

  • Your body is your home.

    I’ve wondered for a long time whether it was useful to think of the body in a sort of Cartesian dualist way. Most of us certainly seem to, without reflecting on why we seem to, why that’s the semi-default mode of thinking about the body (body vs. mind, body vs. soul, body vs. personality —…

  • Failure.

    I’ve spent several years of my life feeling like it is my duty to other people to look the same way I looked at 16. Which is not only stupid, but impossible. People age and change, and I want to be relaxed and happy with those changes. There was nothing wrong with me as a…

  • On the problem of happiness.

    I’ve thought about this problem before, but a recent comment brought it up again: What about fat women who’ve tried to love themselves and have failed at that too? It’s a curious dilemma. I mean, what do you do when not only diets have failed you, but your effort to try and accept yourself has…