{"id":60717,"date":"2014-10-14T09:01:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T14:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=60717"},"modified":"2014-10-02T23:05:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T04:05:38","slug":"10-honest-thoughts-about-being-loved-by-a-skinny-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/10\/14\/10-honest-thoughts-about-being-loved-by-a-skinny-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Honest Thoughts on Being Loved by a Skinny Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is <\/span>Love Your Body Day<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0is this is our favorite body positive post of the year, re-posted in celebration.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Rachel Wiley delivers a provocative poem about her experience as a “fat girl” loved by a skinny boy. \u00a0My favorite part:<\/p>\n

My college theater professor once told me
\nthat despite my talent,
\nI would never be cast as a romantic lead.
\nWe put on shows that involve flying children and singing animals
\nbut apparently no one
\nhas enough willing suspension of disbelief
\nto buy anyone loving a fat girl.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Watch the whole thing (transcript here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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If you liked, we also recommend Kara Kamos’ confession that she’s ugly, but can’t think of a good reason to care<\/a>. \u00a0Hat tip to Polly’s Pocket<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is Love Your Body Day\u00a0and\u00a0is this is our favorite body positive post of the year, re-posted in celebration.\u00a0 Rachel Wiley delivers a provocative poem about her experience as a “fat girl” loved by a skinny boy. \u00a0My favorite part: My college theater professor once told me that despite my talent, I would never be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":60721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,244,23645,387,283],"class_list":["post-60717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-fat","tag-bodies-prejudicediscrimination","tag-dating","tag-prejudicediscrimination"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/01\/2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60717"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64360,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60717\/revisions\/64360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}