Bits and bobs from a British glasses-wearing, sweary, fat, disabled, atheist ex-Catholic, anti-capitalist, pacifist feminist lesbian with eclectic tastes.

I normally blog at incurable-hippie.blogspot.com.

sapearl:

95% of diets fail. 95%! So many people put themselves through hunger, starvation, and stomach ailments for the goal of losing a few pounds, only to gain them back, and more, as soon as they even get a whiff of pie. And the constant pressure to diet, especially for women, is understood to be a form of oppression which shames women for the bodies they have, in order to try and make them conform to somebody else’s beauty ideal.

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