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Thanks for your kind words. I really got my rant on when I was replying and I appreciate you being so gracious about it.

Twisty Faster was new to me, and she makes a fantastic point about the morality of health.

I love TF and IBTP in general. She's funny and her blog is incredibly educational to me, even as steeped in feminism as I (like to think I) am.

I saw myself, not in her, but in the group of those with "assiduously applied, sanctimonious personal health programs" believing I can prevent death.

Ooh, when I quoted TF, I didn't mean to criticise *you*. Far from it. Your efforts to improve your situation through healthy eating and exercise and things like Project Empty (which I was only recommending today, as it happens) have really inspired me. I think they make good sense in the here and now, and are simultaneously mindful, enjoyable and of benefit. In other words, there's nothing at all wrong as you know with an 'assiduously applied... personal health program,' just with being 'sancimonious' and thinking that it is a means of gaining status. When I quoted that passage of TF, I meant to say that Jackattak is the kind of person who thinks that being healthier or thinner than someone else makes him morally superior too, which is obviously the kind of idiocy that I don't think you would be capable of or dream of spouting in a million years.

Anyway. I'm sorry that I have again ranted on. I'm glad the links were of use. :)