Armpit Flowers.

Erika Nicole Kendall has written a response to Crunktastic’s Big Girls Need Love, Too: Dating While Fat (And Feminist) (which I linked about the other day) on her own blog. Responding to Crunktastic’s dilemma about weight loss, feminism, receiving affection and sexual attraction, Kendall writes:

Do I think the blogger, nicknamed “Crunktastic,” is right to make this decision? I don’t think it’s my place to determine right and wrong for someone else… because, just as I can judge based on what she’s written, I also have to remember that for every word written, there’s almost always five other words not being written. I think a few things will happen, though: I think, for starters, she’ll be pretty grossed out by how quickly men who have always been present in her life will start to approach her differently; secondly, I think she’ll be annoyed by the new-found “thin-privilege” she may experience depending upon how far down she chooses to rest her weight; and thirdly, I think she’ll be more skeptical of the men she does encounter in wondering if they would like her if she was heavier…and what that says about their character.

Click here for the full article.

I should be clear, when I’m linking conversations about fatness, attraction, dating etc: I never, ever ever endorse the idea of ‘weight loss’. Google ‘Health At Every Size’ for more on that.