Joni Edelman

When I had my first child, I couldn't have prepared for the way it would make me feel.

Attention Civilians: Colonel David Iverson does not want to see your boobs.

I was told that feminism is man hate. That abortion is murder. And then I thought, "What am I doing here?"

It doesn’t get any more difficult to insult ourselves, regardless of how old we are. It would be ideal if it got easier to respect ourselves, but it generally doesn’t do that either. Every year you age, and every year the aging you looks at the you of the years before and thinks, I can’t believe I thought I was fat/ugly/etc.

And what’s better than eggs? Eggs direct from the cloaca of your own chicken.

I'll let you in on a little secret - being thin didn't make me happy, but being "Fat" does! Be fat and happy. Be unapologetically fat.

Here’s something that isn’t rocket science either, Stephen Hawking: Diets don’t work.

Look, I'm not saying McDonald's did this themselves, I'm just saying, a lot of the people that work there probably agree.

photo credit: Lindy West (instagram), by

How do I raise a boy to love and respect all women regardless of size in a world where he is bombarded with images of what is attractive?