By Sesali B. • @BadFatBlackGirl • 10 years ago

Mario Batali cooks AND respects our personal decisions!

 

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Warning! Swooning may occur. Celebrity chef Mario Batali clapped back at hostile tweeters challenging his support of pro-choice organizations.

In my personal opinion: when you’re rich and famous, being able to the cook an exceptional meal is really just a cherry on top of the sundae. But supporting my right to choose what happens to me and my body, too? Well, that is like a (fairly compensated and well treated) butler to spoon feed me the sundae while I watch Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reruns and play with with puppies!

Perhaps I’m exaggerating a little bit, but I have so much love and respect for  Mario Batali who gave naysayers a polite “fuck you” on Twitter yesterday. It all started when he tweeted that he would match up to $5,000 of donations towards Lady Parts Justice, an organization committed to providing resources to women in Texas who are affected by the attacks on abortion access. Because we live in a world with some misinformed and rude folks, Batali naturally received some nasty responses. But he laid the smack down in his responses. Check some of them out below!

How dreamy is he?
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Feministing's resident "sexpert", Sesali is a published writer and professional shit talker. She is a queer Black girl, fat girl, and trainer. She was the former Training Director at the United States Student Association and later a member of the Youth Organizing team at Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She received her bachelors in Women's and Gender Studies from Depaul University in 2012 and is currently pursuing a master's in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. A self identified "trap" feminist, and trained with a reproductive justice background, her interests include the intersections of feminism and: pop culture, youth culture, social media, hip hop, girlhood, sexuality, race, gender, and Beyonce. Sesali joined the team in 2010 as one of the winners of our So You Think You Can Blog contest.

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