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Lavender Labia: doctornajib: I’m getting pretty sick of seeing people with...
I’m getting pretty sick of seeing people with “justifiable” reasons for being fat invading the fat acceptance movement.
‘I have PCOS, that’s why I’m fat’, ‘I have mobility issues, that’s why I’m fat’.
Like, so the fuck what?
Every time I see this shit, it makes me think that these people are only involved in FA because they used to be thin and now they’re not and they don’t think they deserve to be shitted on because of the way they became fat. They are the first ones telling you their long sad story about how they became fat due to medications or illness or whatever, and they are the first goddamn ones spouting that ‘you don’t know why someone is fat, so you shouldn’t treat all fat people like crap’ bullshit.
Like it matters why or how someone is fat.
In the meantime, the rest of us — the fat people who are fat because we eat a lot of “junk” and high-fat foods, or live sedentary lifestyles, or have slow metabolisms, or have bodies that are comfortable at being bigger, or whatever the fucking reason — those of us who GOT fat, we deserve to be discriminated against and harassed, because our fatness was within our control.
STOP QUALIFYING YOUR FATNESS WITH YOUR DISEASE/AFFLICTION. NOBODY FUCKING CARES WHY YOU ARE FAT, STOP ACTING LIKE SOCIETY OWES YOU A SPECIAL ‘PASS’ FOR YOUR FATNESS BECAUSE ITS CAUSE IS BEYOND YOUR CONTROL.
And then just shut the fuck up. People are fat for a multitude of reasons. Fat and size and body acceptance are about the elimination of size discrimination within our culture. It is not about being upset that your high school friends on facebook are giving you diet tips and you are embarrassed because you didn’t GET FAT, you started taking a medication that made you gain weight and become fat and OMG IT’S SO UNFAIR THAT THEY ASSUME!!
Seriously. Just shut the fuck up.
- # fat
- # fat acceptance
- # fatness
- # fat bodies
- # HAES
- # FA
- # diversity
- # excuses
- # medicalisation of fatness
- # justification
- # rant
- # perfect rant is perfect
- # control
- # self control
- # rhetoric
- # willpower
- # ableism
- # healthcare
- # respect
- # worth
- # self worth
- # self care
- # self love
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If your fat activism erases people with eating disorders, you’re doing it wrong.
Fat people can have eating disorders, and reducing their mental illness to a “crutch” is damaging, harmful, and ableist.
Don’t.
Once upon a time, there was a little princess. This little princess had crimson hair with a bright white streak that flowed down one side of her head like a waterfall. She lived in a dreary wasteland that was flooded with sad, hopeless people. You see, a curse was set over the land, hundreds of years ago. The curse said that everyone was to be unhappy, until they discovered the true meaning of life.
Oh, people searched for the meaning, of course. Historians scoured their books and papers. Archaeologists dug until their arms grew weary. Engineers looked into their machines until nothing made sense. Neighbors asked neighbors, students asked professors, astronomers asked the stars. No one could find the meaning.
But, the little princess knew the answer! She lived in a tall tower, away from everyone who was sad. When she would peek from her window, the people below would throw rocks at her, and would shout about how she was fat and unlovable. But she knew they were wrong. She was fat, of course, but she liked that! And unlovable, she was not. You see, she knew they were cursed, doomed to be eternally unhappy, and that they wouldn’t be able to break that curse by trying to make her succumb to it as well.
So, the little princess wrote messages on pieces of parchment paper, and let them fall from her window into the people’s hands. She told the people the answer to the curse: love yourselves and you’ll find true happiness.
Some people laughed at her. Some people refused to listen altogether. But those who did listen, those who took a chance, had noticed that their lives started to change. They were able to smile again, their lives were full of vibrant colors and delicious smells that they had never dreamed of before, and, well - the curse had been lifted for them!
The little princess was so happy. She, and others, could see that the key to happiness was not through evil. And even though some other people had not quite accepted that yet, she knew that they would come around eventually. And, even if they didn’t, there was still hope among the people who had accepted it.
The end.
P.S. Please stay 70milesaway from me, you rude piece of shit.
Reduce cellulite. Be gone dry skin. Vanish unwanted facial hair. Diminish stretch marks. Fade age spots. Eliminate feminine odor. Lose weight. Dissolve belly fat. Erase wrinkles.
I think someone wants me to disappear.
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So, it’s pretty common to see an image like this with like an article about body image or eating disorders or whatever.
And then they go on to talk about what a problem it is and how sad all these young women are hating themselves and hurting themselves because they think they are fat, when they aren’t.
Implying that if they were actually fat, then there wouldn’t be a problem, it would be totally normal and expected (as it is) to hate their bodies and hurt themselves over it.
Thin bodies shouldn’t be used to represent poor self-image and low self-esteem, just the same way fat bodies shouldn’t be used to represent greed, laziness, gluttony, disease, or any of the other nasty shit that fat bodies too often symbolize
You know who sees a fat girl in the mirror every day? fat girls. And I wanna see a picture of a fat girl seeing her own reflection in the mirror, and I wanna see the article talking about why that girl doesn’t need to hate herself or starve herself or think herself unworthy of love.
- # fat
- # body image
- # anorexia
- # eating disorder
- # gif
- # moving gif
- # fat bodies
- # perspective
- # commentary
- # fat hatred
- # fat stigma
- # body positive
- # body acceptance
- # self care
- # skin
- # nsfw
- # starvation
- # skinny
- # thin bodies
- # emaciated
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The Fat Grackle: A Twin Study of Human Obesity from The Journal of the American Medical Association
Abstract:
“Height, weight, and body mass index (BMI) were assessed in a sample of 1974 monozygotic and 2097 dizygotic male twin pairs. Concordance rates for different degrees of overweight were twice as high for monozygotic twins as for dizygotic twins. Classic twin methods estimated a high heritability for height, weight, and BMI, both at age 20 years (.80,.78, and.77, respectively) and at a 25-year follow-up (.80,.81, and.84, respectively). Height, weight, and BMI were highly correlated across time, and a path analysis suggested that the major part of that covariation was genetic. These results are similar to those of other twin studies of these measures and suggest that human fatness is under substantial genetic control. “
(JAMA 1986;256:51-54)
JAMA. 1986;256(1):51-54. doi:10.1001/jama.1986.03380010055024.
The Fat Grackle: An Adoption Study of Human Obesity from the New England Journal of Medicine
AbstractWe examined the contributions of genetic factors and the family environment to human fatness in a sample of 540 adult Danish adoptees who were selected from a population of 3580 and divided into four weight classes: thin, median weight, overweight, and obese. There was a strong relation between the weight class of the adoptees and the body-mass index of their biologic parents — for the mothers, P<0.0001; for the fathers, P<0.02. There was no relation between the weight class of the adoptees and the body-mass index of their adoptive parents. Cumulative distributions of the body-mass index of parents showed similar results; there was a strong relation between the body-mass index of biologic parents and adoptee weight class and no relation between the index of adoptive parents and adoptee weight class. Furthermore, the relation between biologic parents and adoptees was not confined to the obesity weight class, but was present across the whole range of body fatness — from very thin to very fat. We conclude that genetic influences have an important role in determining human fatness in adults, whereas the family environment alone has no apparent effect. (N Engl J Med 1986; 314:193–8.)
N Engl J Med 1986; 314:193-198January 23, 1986DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198601233140401
I think healthcare providers should treat the patient in front of them for the healthcare issue that they have using evidence based medicine and informed consent . I would hope that healthcare providers who don’t have what they need to properly treat fat people would be on the forefront of activism to get the tools that they need to help their patients, not trying to hide their fat bigotry in talk about whose fault fat people’s healthcare issues are or how they could treat them if their bodies were smaller.
When you go to the doctor I suggest that you interrupt conversations about whose fault something is and instead ask that your doctor focus on providing you with evidence-based healthcare for the issue that you are presenting with. Some phrases that I find helpful at the doctor are:
• Do thin people get this health issue? Can I get the treatment protocol that they get?
• Can you help me understand how suggesting that I should be blamed for [my health issue] is part of your plant to help me get better? or I disagree that suggesting that I should be blamed for my health issue will help us to treat it so let’s please move on.
• Can we please skip over who is to blame and focus on how we’re going to treat this issue?
• Can you give me the name of a study of a weight loss intervention where the majority of people have lost the amount of weight that you are recommending that I lose and kept it off for the long term, as well as a study that shows that doing so would have long term positive effects on my health?
• Studies from Yale have shown that over 50% of doctors have some prejudice against people of size – do you consider yourself part of that group of doctors?
Regardless, if you go for healthcare you deserve to get care for your health, not suggestions of fault and lectures.
Healthcare, Fault, and Fat People - Dances with Fat (via redefiningbodyimage)
Every time I see thin girls in stores like Forever 21 talking about how they’re ~*~really good at fashion~*~ I always think “it’s really easy to build something awesome out of legos if you have a huge bucket, as opposed to a little bag of them.”
Basically, y’all got options. So when you’re “good at fashion,” it’s really not that much of an accomplishment. But when I see a fat bitch in a hot outfit, she deserves respect, because that shit is hard.
The fundamental mistake that most thin people make regarding fat people is that they make the assumption that all bodies work the same way that their own does. The naturally thin among us look at a fat person and think, “I’d have to eat nothing but cheeseburgers and milkshakes all day long to weigh that much. Therefore, that person must eat cheeseburgers and milkshakes all day long.”
It doesn’t work that way. Most fat people eat the same basic three meals a day that thin people eat. Despite what you have seen on tv and in movies, fat people do not shove food in their faces all day every day. In most cases, they eat the same things that thin people eat, but their bodies simply process it differently. But fat people are labelled as “disgusting” and “pigs” because they are only ever shown from a thin person’s point of view, based on these false assumptions.
Fat people can be guilty of this mistake too. Sometimes we see someone very thin and, knowing that we would have to stop eating entirely and exercise obsessively in order to be that thin, we assume that the thin person must be anorexic, when they may just be naturally thin.
The difference is, in our culture, thin people are assumed to be morally superior. These wrong assumptions about how body size happens paint the thin as disciplined and the fat as lazy, when the reality is that there are as many lazy and undisciplined thin people as there disciplined ones, and there are as many disciplined and active fat people as there are lazy ones.
“But every time I’m out I see fat people shoving food in their faces.” Really? And you never see thin people eating in public? Are you sure you aren’t just noticing the fat people because you started with the assumption that fat people eat all the time, and every time you see a fat person eating, you take special notice of that as proof that you are correct?
Some people will always be naturally thin, no matter how much junk food they cram in their faces, and some people will always be naturally fat, no matter how little they eat or how much they exercise. The naturally thin may gain weight now and then, but their bodies will always eventually settle into being their own natural thin size. The naturally fat can lose weight, but eventually will gain it all back as their body regains its natural shape.
Attaching moral weight to a person’s body size will always be wrong. When you think that thin people are better than fat people, you may as well be saying that tall people are better than short people, or blue-eyed people are better than brown-eyed people.
The truth is that people are people, and all of them should be treated equally.
