COFRA — Show Your Face videos

I have a secret crush. How much do I love Paul McAleer? A lot, that’s how much. Now that it’s not a secret anymore I can tell you that I quote his witty and smart viewpoints on Big Fat Blog to my husband so often (“Oh my god! Paul said something brilliant! Isn’t he dreamy?”) that now he refers to Paul as my internet boyfriend. OK that’s not true – he doesn’t call Paul my internet boyfriend but it sounded so cute that I’m going to leave it in. Go read what Paul has to say and see for yourself.

Paul invited a bunch of us bloggers to get together in Chicago and talk about Fat Rights, calling us the Coalition of Fat Rights Activists. I’ve wanted to attend the COFRA meetings that have taken place in Chicago only to be thwarted at every turn. Once a wedding, once a business meeting, and once I even bought a plane ticket but all flights were canceled because of a snow storm!

Sigh…one day I will meet Paul and hopefully I will not be a drooling fool (“Oh my gawd you are like so cute and stuff!”) but instead I will be witty and profound and we will have a wonderful conversation and I will write about the momentous occasion in my diary, which is this website, so you will be the first to know!

Paul sent out a call for action calling it Dare to Show Your Face. Confront the media’s obsession with images of neck-down fat bodies and show them your beauty. I spent a lot of time last weekend watching and watching again your incredible videos on You Tube and I gotta say, you people are gorgeous! The videos are beyond fantastic, beyond inspiring, beyond my wildest hopes and dreams. Now what with my not-so-secret crush, of course you can see that I am beside myself with Hunky Paul and the thrilling accomplishment of the COFRA Dare to Show Your Face project. See? I told you he was dreamy.

I often wish I could meet the people who read my blog and when I watch these videos I just want to invite you all over for dinner. I’ll make you a nice leg of lamb, unless you’re vegan and then I’ll make ratatouille. We’ll drink wine and laugh and have wonderful conversation. Then we’ll make a body positive, fat rights video. Today You Tube – tomorrow the world!

*Addendum: I just realized that I didn’t give credit to Abby Niederhauser who posted this video. WTG Abby! Please take some time to see the other videos as well.