I put stuff on the intertrons. See also: 
I’m not sure how to phrase this in terms of thin privilege, but I just have some important information I feel like I need to share.
Before I became a freelance writer, I worked in a hospital. I was a clinical coder. What that means, is that whenever anyone checked out of the hospital, we read their notes, and then assigned numerical codes to designate what their diagnosis was, and what treatments they received. These codes are then reported to the World Health Organization for statistical purposes.
While I was working there (circa 2006) when the “obesity epidemic” panic started, they changed our co-morbidity list. That is, the list of other things - usually chronic disorders - that we mark on the forms (if there’s room) that are wrong with the patient, such as asthma or diabetes or heart disease that may or may not be related to the actual reason they are in the hospital. If an asthmatic breaks their leg, asthma is listed as a co-morbidity, even though it has nothing to do with their broken leg.
They changed the co-morbidity priority list and put obesity near the top. Like, if we only had room for a few co-morbidities, we had to work the list from the top down, and put the top ones first. So if someone came in with a broken leg and they had high blood pressure, a severe mental illness, and an enlarged prostate, and they also happened to be fat, if there was only room for one code on the form, we had to list obesity instead of any of the other problems and if there was room for more than one, obesity had to be listed first.
This is why there is a recent sudden “rise” in obesity related illnesses. There are not more fat people or more diseases related to being fat. It’s just that the people who collect the statistics are now required to report fatness as a priority over actual diseases.
(This was in the UK and the change in the co-morbidity list was a nation-wide change in operating procedure. It is also probably true in the US, though coding there is different and less accurate due to health insurance playing a part in what is coded.)
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Tales of Interest
What if…the one word Brienne of Tarth said to save her life was “Doctor!” … Or “Pond!”.
*this is as far as I go to fanfic land
But why is it that when a woman gets told not to breast-feed in a Sydney café, a brief social media campaign was all it took to get a news story up and a mob of mothers out protesting. Good on them, for sure, but why aren’t more of us joining those already fighting to improve the situation for indigenous people, particularly indigenous women, victims of violence and abuse at a rate higher than most of us could imagine? According to figures from Family and Relationship Services Australia, the risk of a woman in the Alice Springs being assaulted is 24 times is higher if she is indigenous. Aboriginal women comprise about 0.3 per cent of all Australian women - but they account for 14 per cent of assault hospitalisations. Come International Women’s Day, how many of us stop to think about these victims?”
Melissa Davey: The violence in our own backyard
Yep.
(via clambistro)(via clambistro)
I got a bad case of gastroenteritis a few years ago and had to go to the hospital to rehydrate etc. The first thing the doc wrote on my intake card was “OBESITY”. I bet that got coded somewhere.
Bad data! Bad!
Link to part one - http://tiny.cc/6mb3ww
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May 12, 2012
From: Etsy Marketplace Integrity
To: meHello,
This is (representative’s name) from Etsy’s Marketplace Integrity Team. Thank you for your interest in selling on Etsy.
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How this is any different from all the jewellery sellers on Etsy whose products are made of findings, chain, beads and stampings (that octopus one is EVERYWHERE) made in factories by other people I don’t know.
Let alone all the copyright infringers and people who are clearly selling crap from a warehouse.
Beyonslay (40) from Gotham Girls - Roller Derby Idol No.3
The best blooming blocker I have EVER seen! -le sigh-
someone please remind me to get low when blocking and not just hitting with my shoulder?
The assumption that fat people can’t posses skill at any sport really angers me. There are a number of fat pro athletes, including Olympians. In case you happen to be too lazy to look some up: Emmanuel Yarborough, Sarah Robles, Holley Mangold.
I am fat and just received my blackbelt in Taekwondo. Weight has nothing to do with speed, power, or skill. These are all things you train. A classmate larger than me just got his blackbelt at the same time and he schools me whenever we spar.
There are heaps of fat women in roller derby playing at every level. Beyonslay (now retired from derby) played for freaking GOTHAM (essentially the best league in the world), including on their all-stars team.
http://feeownah.net/post/11732214371/sailornelly-beyonslay-40-from-gotham-girls
http://www.myspace.com/ggrd/photos/46487656/tagged
There’s a few videos on YouTube of her in action, too. I want to be Beyonslay when I grow up!
