I hate it when people say that about eating. Be "bad" by doing something without which your body will eventually die!

Indeed.

In semi-related news, I'm stepping back into fatosphere politics for a while by posting a link to a Paul Campos article about the bullshittery surrounding the Paula Deen/diabetes/butter cookery shenanigans happening this week. The villianizing is SO GROSS and sexist and classist and elitist and I hate that I've been so cowardly in (barely) pointing it out in my little corner of the internets. And I'm stressed that I put the Paul Campos article out there at all!

I don't know why I'm so intense about this right now.

the Paula Deen/diabetes/butter cookery shenanigans happening this week. The villianizing is SO GROSS and sexist and classist and elitist and I hate that I've been so cowardly in (barely) pointing it out in my little corner of the internets.

Nora, I am SO PISSED at the comments people who I *really* care about have been making on Facebook. I have to keep myself from commenting on them, because if I do, it will be NASTY. Seriously, I'm trying to not go off on a rage-filled bender right now.

In conclusion: SHAFT eating donut holes.

LOL, Tep.(I really did...it seemed like I could say so.) Nora, wrod. On a related note, Tony Bourdain, I heart you, but step off. You're already on record with your too-much-butter bitching, man...do you really have to pick the scab? Also, hello...you were a fiend. Multiple times. I'm fascinated by it and I dig that you lived to tell the story, but I think it absolves you from giving health advice...I don't know, like, ever.

the Paula Deen/diabetes/butter cookery shenanigans happening this week. The villianizing is SO GROSS and sexist and classist and elitist and I hate that I've been so cowardly in (barely) pointing it out in my little corner of the internets.

What's this one about?

In conclusion: SHAFT eating donut holes.

This sounds so wrong and yet so right.

Eating one donut hole isn't "bad." MAYBE "a little naughty," if you're on a strict-ish diet.

Unless it's dusted with cocaine, it doesn't rank. (incidentally, given my boringly straight life, I always laugh really hard when Bourdain makes a powdered0sugar joke. I may never get over my urge to fake cool.) But it's just so inappropriate in a food show that I love it.

MAYBE "a little naughty," if you're on a strict-ish diet.

There is nothing immoral or moral about eating. Seriously. It's just food.

the Paula Deen/diabetes/butter cookery shenanigans happening this week. The villianizing is SO GROSS and sexist and classist and elitist and I hate that I've been so cowardly in (barely) pointing it out in my little corner of the internets.

What's this one about?

Paula Deen revealed that she has diabetes, and there has been a flurry of smug nasty comments about how it's "just desserts" because she cooks with butter, etc.

Because as everyone knows, if you never cook with butter, you won't get diabetes, ever. As everyone also knows, people who are thin/"normal" weight never get diabetes, ever. And people who eat "perfect" diets, devoid of animal fat, carbs, sugar, and joy, never get The Diabeetus. Ever.

So of course it's "just desserts" that a chef gets diabetes. She DESERVES it, you see, because she had the unmitigated gall to cook with BABIES! Um, I mean butter.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah. Rage. Have to stop talking about it. Seriously. Big Hulk rage and I am not even kidding.

I'm going to resume telling Chatty!Co-worker about Inspector Spacetime.

I hate it when people equate eating anything with being "bad" or "sinful".

My tiny sister does that. "I'm going to be bad and have dessert." JUST EAT IT.

You know, sticking to a diet that is devoid of fat, carbs, sugar, etc., and exercising may not make you live longer, but it will probably feel that way (old joke).

Yeah, I've been getting really irritated at a lot of the comments about Paula Deen that I've been seeing, especially from a few vegan friends who seem to be taking this opportunity to live up to all the self-righteous vegan stereotypes that they usually insist aren't true. And, no matter how many times I say, "Hi, overweight high-cholesterol vegan STANDING RIGHT HERE," they're insisting that their diets are saving them from all of that "horrible" stuff like being fat and sick.