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By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:19:31 +0000

As a kid, I always thought I was fat. Even when I was 10, I would look in the mirror and I didn’t like what I saw. I hated sports (mostly because I sucked at them). Kids at school teased me about my weight too. Looking back, I wasn’t even overweight.
My freshman year of high school I joined my school’s rowing team and I started to slim down. Now my mom calls me “skinny boy” and things like that.
But I still have insecurities. I worry about every little detail of my body. I wish I didn’t, but I do.
All teens struggle with this, I know, but I think that Gay culture has a lot to do with it. The ideal male body is forced down our throats everywhere we look. Everything can feel so shallow, and I’ve fallen into that trap.
I know some people might think “skinny bitch don’t even talk about weight you don’t know nothin,” but everyone deals with it.
Self-acceptance is a lifelong process, and we all deal with it. This article made me feel better about it, though.

By: Jordan Fox

Jordan Fox — Mon, 16 May 2011 04:54:27 +0000

and one last thing – I’m a queer chic – the name is sort of adrog. (oh – and the last post I was kidding – I mean: who has time these days?)

By: Jordan Fox

Jordan Fox — Sun, 15 May 2011 01:09:20 +0000

I just realized: I don’t want you to tell me how to post it, but if you want to READ it. You know, since you’re a big star and have oodles of time.

By: Jordan Fox

Jordan Fox — Sun, 15 May 2011 01:07:49 +0000

I’m quoting some of what you say in a college essay about successful women in the entertainment industry that are real sized (you know, not the painfully thin girls y’all are surrounded by) I quote your Fuck It Diet sketch.

I want to put it on the web — see if you like it — would you be interested? I’m tech-stupid tho so I don’t know how I’d do that.

I know you are probably busy and can’t answer this – but just in case…my name is Jordan Fox em: jrdnfox@gmail.com

thanks!

By: Natalie

Natalie — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:33:22 +0000

I am just now reading through your blog after watching the great song you made with Ani.

I blog about body image and am a fat activist and what you’ve said hits on so many points I and my comrades talk about all the time. The fantasy of being thin (a GREAT piece of writing by Kate Harding) is so embedded in our culture that when people lose weight, even if they’re sick, they’re treated as if they’re a better person.

And being in your body, that’s something I’m learning about after discovering Health At Every Size a few years ago. I’m fat, I’ve been fat since I was diagnosed with a health condition over 13 years ago, and I’ve been too afraid to exercise because I’ve been abused when out walking on the street (yeh, how counter intuitive?) So I’ve reclaimed the gym, pushed the muscleheads away from the mirror and started doing gym stuff again.

I haven’t lost weight, and it’s likely I never will, but finding movement I enjoy and paying attention to my relationship with food (I went vegetarian over a year ago) has helped me so much.

Thanks for this post Margaret. You’re great.

By: Nicol

Nicol — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:26:28 +0000

It’s so true. I started blues dancing (slow, messy form of partner dance, almost like swing but sexier) about a year and a half ago, and that was when I first became conscious that my body was fun, being in it was fun, and that knowledge helped my self esteem immensely. The simple act of moving makes me feel better about myself, regardless of my weight, because the human body is such a powerful instrument. I slacked off on the blues dance, but I did take a theatre movement class over the summer, and I am intermittently taking butoh classes now, as well as yoga, AND I bike occasionally. If I slack off on these things, it is amazing how quickly the low self-esteem comes back!

None of this seems to change how people see me, regardless of whether they like my body or not, but just moving in a way that I like, that interests and entertains me, that astounds me, makes me feel like a better, more beautiful person. *This* is what gym classes in school need to do!