Bummer

Some sad news: Sarah Watson's blog "Fat Girl on a Bike" is on indefinite hiatus. The story is over at Shapely Prose, but what happened, basically, is this: she got fed up with comments from assholes who saw fit to comment about her weight, health, looks, fuckability, etc. both on her blog and elsewhere. She started her blog to track her progress as she trained for and competed in triathlons. Big deal, right? Except that she had the nerve to do alla that (with photos!) and still be fat. Had she lost weight in the training? Probably. She sure as hell got fit, and inspired a whole lot of us to get off our butts and have fun being as athletic as we wanted without worrying that we were too fat to be seen in public exercising.

And sure, when you post stuff on the internets, you get feedback, and not all of it is nice. But the whole thing got out of hand when she agreed to post a photo of herself, in running clothes -- running, no less!-- in Kate Harding's BMI project (which, check it out). And every creep on the internet descended to mock, or act shocked, or point & laugh, or what have you.

I don't blame her for going offline, but it sure makes me mad.