Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...automobile, the motion picture, the radio, Hadden and Luce detected a new consumers' appetite for motion, stimulation, variety. Traditional sources of information had become inadequate. Newspapers were local or regional and in any case offered only a patchwork of information. Magazines tended to be specialized, with a tendency toward fat and bloviation; they rarely offered news as news. None even set out to be comprehensive on a national and international scale...
...ranked school's scoring record, columnists and talk-show callers went nuts. They railed that it was an insult to the integrity of sports--as bad, some argued, as point shaving. But this sort of assist to a deserving player is not unprecedented: Mickey Mantle was served a big fat pitch to pass Jimmie Foxx's career home-run mark. And why are all these people suddenly taking such an interest in a women's college scoring record? This isn't usually the stuff of CNN's Headline Sports...
Anorexic women often stop menstruating and grow excess body hair. Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder. Bulimics often purge upwards of five times a day. Fat people don't smell and aren't always lazy. Binge eaters have no concept of hunger or fullness...
...heads we just keep saying, my thighs are too fat, my breasts are too small, my tummy jiggles...These are the fears that are still too taboo to discuss in public, so we keep them inside. This private mantra that goes on in women's heads gets so loud that sometimes we can't even hear the conversations going on around us or the conversations in which we're participating...
...stop acting in the world, too consumed by this private and shameful monologue of calories and thighs and pounds. In doing so, not only do we lose our agency and voice, but we also isolate ourselves from everyone else, including the others who keep repeating: my thighs are too fat, my breasts are too small, my tummy jiggles. Indeed, those others are many--the mantra is epidemic...