We’ve had a long running thread over at www.myfatspouse.com which includes the attachments of “motivational” posters, ridiculing various FA tenets. They vary from the profound, to the truly tasteless. I thought I would post a few here that are relevant.
- Anorexia vs. Healthy
Strawmen Do Exist
Kitty Workout
Hate Speech
McDonalds Setpoint
Booga Booga
Freak of Nature
Thermodynamics
Real Women
Butt Wand
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These might have more credibility if there weren’t so many grammar and spelling mistakes…
We should have added one last poster
“Nitpicking Grammar: the last resort of those with no argument!”
Maybe I’m blind, but the only mistake I’ve found so far is on the McDonalds poster, I think “bodies” is supposed to be “body’s”. I think they’re awesome!!!!
Besides, if we want to talk about credibility, how about a blog that drops the f-bomb every other word? Such eloquence! Such a shining example of grammatical perfection! Now that’s some credibility for you! You know who’s blog I mean…
Love the posters. The one chin one had me rolling! Great job “unfatblog” and good call on the nitpicking grammer.
Spelling mistakes? I spelt difference with an ‘a’ instead of an ‘e’ in the first one, and domboy said the word ‘bodies’ could have been spelt ‘body’s’ on the Mickey D’s one.
Apart from that unless you’ve mistaken the letters ‘Fa’, as a mis-spelling of fat, when really ‘fa’ means fat acceptance its all sound.
Great to know that points become invalid simply because of one tiny letter.
The sky is bllue!
Oh no i spelt blue wrong, therefore its not true, so it must be green!!
Personally i think writing ‘this fucking doucehound says to lose weight, fucking idiot’ every other sentence and getting medical advice from a lawyer makes people lose credibility, but hey, thats actually a good reason.
If Steven Hawkings voicebox mispronounces words, does that make what he’s saying lose credibility?
I have to agree with the point about grammar and spelling – it matters. A lot. And it has nothing to do with whether the person doing the “nitpicking” has an argument or not. When I read something full of grammar and spelling mistakes, my first reaction is to think that this person is an idiot. Even if that’s not true, it will bias me against anything they say, regardless of how good their points are. I edit technical writing for a living, and while I won’t claim to be perfect (I’m sure you will find mistakes in this comment), I know what I am talking about. It matters.
(Incidentally, the word you want up there is “tenet.” Tenants are people who rent real estate. Tenets are the underlying principles of a movement or philosophy.)
And before you jump to conclusions, I fully agree with the message you are trying to convey here. I spend a significant amount of time reading up on FA and attempting to combat the lies they spread. I am on your side.
If the grammar errors are egregious and profuse, I could understand the issue. They aren’t, in fact we are speaking to a missing apostrophe.
What is more profound is the lack of actual disagreement with the actual subject of hand.
I must conclude that these “motivational” posters are hitting their mark, dead on, from the lack of REAL INTELLECTUAL disagreement.
Unfatblog (Chris), it seems that my “winter-ip” (Southern Spain) has been banned from MFS? It might be grouped together with some rather too “exotic” locations.
These are awesome. Especially the “BOOGA BOOGA” and the fat car one.
What’s with all the whining about spelling?
I guess I am not that suprised if butt wands really exist…
…but do they really??
Love the one about the fat car! Who can argue with that?!
McBloggenstein: I guess I am not that suprised if butt wands really exist……but do they really??
Well, in Dan Savage’s book Skipping towards Gomorrah, he mentions hearing a very fat person talk about having to use “a stick” to wipe herself with. I’d never heard of such a thing, but if someone simply can’t reach any more, what else is there to do?
*siiiggghhhh*
Good times…good times..
MeMe Roth needs to see this article. It is OUTSTANDING!