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[serene]

Okay, I grabbed a big handful of the signs. Send me your mailing address in email or set up a date to see me if you want some.

Again, the signs say

Welcome!

Weight diversity is celebrated here.
Kindly refrain from diet talk, body disparagement, and other unpleasantries.

Thank you!

Signage provided by Marilyn Wann, author of FAT!SO?

and they're cute and pink.

Comments

[kneidlach.livejournal.com]

I have no use for one, but oh how I wish I had control over when and where conversations about weight happened. I find myself often in the middle of them, wishing I was anywhere else.

Then again now that I've become weight-conscious I've found myself initiating them, too. Trying hard to check in with folks before I start talking about my food and weight stuff.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

And those of us who feel as I do are so very grateful for considerate people like you. Thanks for the cut-tags. I've noticed and appreciated them.

[kneidlach.livejournal.com]

I put them in because I actually lost an LJ friend over asking his skinny ass to not post "I'm such a cow" and call himself a "fat-ass" without putting it behind a cut or filter. He refused, indignantly, and we haven't really spoken since. Fun times.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Oh, shit. Bleah.

[sebab.livejournal.com]

I hope "body disparagement" includes comments like "she's so skinny" (said disparagingly) and "REAL women have curves" (some of us don't, and didn't, even when a lot larger), and so forth.

such things have been on my mind a lot lately for various reasons... being regarded with suspicion because of one's weight hurts, no matter what the weight, or social group, is :(

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

I can't speak for Serene, but I personally try to discourage those comments when I see them among folks I know.