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There's an interesting discussion (mostly in its veering into Rosie O'Donnell's racist comments) on fatshionista about Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump being asshats to each other.

The thing that particularly strikes me is O'Donnell saying He wounded millions of women by saying that I was fat, you know? Celebrities make really awful fat empowerment icons. Cause they say things like that - calling me fat is wounding me? The hell? Trying to diminish my arguments (which in this case sure seem pretty small anyhow) with attacks on my Otherness certainly makes you a sizeist, heterosexist shit, and I definitely see the contribution of public comments that reduce a person to their Otherness as contributing to the Fuckedupitude. But. I have a hard time perceiving the word fat as a wound, which I think is what she meant.

Anyhow. Worth reading.

math: Satisfactory; fatness: Outstanding

We got these really odd grades in elementary school, basically words (ironically, as an adult, I get rather similar words at the office) like Outstanding or Satisfactory. I think an N was like a Really Bad Grade. Were notes from home, or the wrong kind of stickers and Really Bad Grades, as tragic & humiliating for other kids as they seemed to me?

Because if so, sending notes home about BMI is the stupidest idea ever [link is to the NYT article about it - good reading]. Even if we knew (which it seems we don't) fatness in kids to be a scourge of evilness, would we want to teach them to fear food and view exercise as a punishment?

Oh, right... that's not really any different than we do now. Which is, by the way, a big part of my issue with mainstream schooling - an awful lot of its techniques are fear-driven and mean. Which this BMI note thing fits right in with.