Blogger Bethany Rutter - LiveJournal, fatshion and online dating
Sofieland with Sofie Hagen
Sofie Hagen
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2016
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Sofie talks to Bethany about the early days of the Internet - LiveJournal and penpalling, fatshion and thinsion bloggers, fat experiences, how to start loving yourself, values, online dating, *shudder* exercise, actual health, breakfast-pizza, fatphobic doctors and more.
The website talked about is navabi.com
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| 0:00.0 | It gets better because it has to get better. |
| 0:07.0 | We're all made of human. |
| 0:10.0 | You are listening to the Made of Human |
| 0:14.8 | Podcast the Mopod also called it is also called it is called it is |
| 0:22.0 | anyways this is the Bethny Rutter episode. |
| 0:25.0 | Bethny Rutter is a friend of mine. |
| 0:29.0 | I mean, they all are. |
| 0:30.0 | Most of my guests are friends in some capacity, but Bethney is, so she's a fat-shin blogger. |
| 0:38.0 | And I know, I know, I know. A blogger. I know, what is a blogger really if not a an unpublished journalist a failed |
| 0:50.2 | journalist but I disagree with that statement, even though I was the one who made it. I disagree with it because what Bethney does, it sounds simple. It sounds like, oh yeah, so you get, you take on clothes, you take a photo of you just standing, |
| 1:08.8 | and then you put it on a website. |
| 1:10.3 | But you have, if you're not fat if you've not battled with |
| 1:14.6 | Trying to find clothes as a as a fat person trying to feel like you look good as a fat person if you not tried that, you have no idea how much good someone like Bethney can do by just being fat, wearing clothes looking fucking amazing. I see a photo of Bethney wearing like a dark |
| 1:37.0 | lipstick and I feel empowered and that might sound ridiculous but I hope it'll make sense once you've heard this |
| 1:44.8 | episode Bethney is wonderful I love us to bit we talk a lot about fatness and oh |
| 1:50.4 | love her love her and you will love her too. I want to thank you for listening to this |
| 1:55.0 | podcast because it means a lot. It is genuinely the best thing I've done. I love it. I love it so much and I'm so excited that it's happening that you're listening |
| 2:06.5 | and that you're sharing it with people that you're donating via Patreon |
| 2:10.5 | that you don't need money to it, it means so much. And I know I keep saying that, but it really does, |
| 2:17.4 | and I don't know how else to express my happiness. Apart from maybe very soon, I'm going to start putting out some extra |
| 2:25.0 | some extra stuff on the people who donate by a patron I can get you some stuff that only you can see |
| 2:30.0 | like special episodes and special interviews and videos and stuff like that. |
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