GenderTalk

• Peter & Shirley Oiler update
• Gender legislation surpassing sexual orientation legislation?

"Have you explored fat as a gender issue? In a culture where body diversity is secular sin, fatness is the biggest transgression. Fatpanic is not only a subset of transphobia, but is, unfortunately, epidemic in much of queer culture. Even as scientific evidence piles up that fatness itself is simply not a health problem and that the "cure" we have been offered for a century is a bogus and dangerous failure, the hysteria of the "war on fat" increases. Fatphobia is getting more of a boost than ever now, with "obesity" now classified as a disease. Just like other queer folks through history, fat people are still being targeted with dangerous treatments "for their own good". Sound familiar? Fat is definitely a gender issue."
(From: JeanneE ["pronounced Jee-nee"])

• Bear indulges in Ranier beer
• Population slowdown in industrialized nations
• Gays flock to Massachusetts
• Limo demo derby
• AFCME union complains about quick fix
• British scientist predicts tidal wave for US Northeast
• Vigil to be held for murdered TG woman in SF
• "Whack Osama" paintball arcade thrives
• Cat returns home after 18 years

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