FULL-FAT HUMANITY
Not any kind of fat.
Stop giving pompous lectures when many of you don’t know how to behave yourself.
That’s because many of you can’t think either.
Yours helpfully etc.,
“My cousin Jody Potts made my niece Nazhre, who was our flower girl, a beaded hide dress with porcupine quillwork.
My Great Aunt Adeline Potts made my wedding dress out of white elk hide, with traditional Hän Gwich’in beadwork. She also made a matching pair of beaded wedding slippers.”
- Shyanne Beatty
(via crunkfeministcollective)
Kansas City, Missouri mother has a 400 pound 11 year old daughter.
Yep out of ideas, never had any really. Fat people who do need help are just left to sort themselves out. I’d say the medical science establishment given up, but that would imply that there’s been any real intent to study fat people in a meaningful way.
There hasn’t been, not since the “obesity crusade started anyway. The only priority is fiddling around with their irrelevant ‘obesity’ construct, which they can own without real people messing things up. Shaming people who don’t need their assistance to divert attention away from the way they’re ignoring those who actually might.
Note how the mother was told they “believe” her daughter ate too much? They didn’t want to actually check her out in case that rained on their parade.
Yeah. This is just sad. Not that she’s 11 and weighs 400 lbs, but that she’s being screwed over and brushed off by the medical establishment. Why does her weight preclude blood tests and scans? This is how fatphobia kills. When asshole doctors are too wrapped up in their bias to take a human life seriously, to trust this mother — who presents herself eloquently and intelligently— when she says something is wrong. This 11 year old need not be thin (or white, or male) in order to have her health assessed thoroughly and accurately.
Truth is they’ve got very little. Specializing in blaming people gives you nothing and gets you nowhere. When they can’t get away with that, their true impotence threatens to be exposed and they just can’t take it. They’re supposed to be handing out the punishment!
(Source: lickypickystickyme, via halfalipsticklesbian)
Thin privilege is never having to deal with shit like this while you’re at work:
(I am working the reference desk. I have a great rapport with our patrons, and am often complimented for my positive attitude.)
Me: “This is the reference desk. How can I help you?”
Patron: “Can you tell me…
Black people know.
“He thinks women’s lives are about looking to secure “long term relationships” with any male with a pulse, like in a Jane Austen novel?
Their bodies are now the dowry apparently? Just weird. A person’s SO is not an extension of their ego, nor an…
Bloody hell.
Kansas City, Missouri mother has a 400 pound 11 year old daughter.
Yep out of ideas, never had any really. Fat people who do need help are just left to sort themselves out. I’d say the medical science establishment given up, but that would imply that there’s been any real intent to study fat people in a meaningful way.
There hasn’t been, not since the “obesity crusade started anyway. The only priority is fiddling around with their irrelevant ‘obesity’ construct, which they can own without real people messing things up. Shaming people who don’t need their assistance to divert attention away from the way they’re ignoring those who actually might.
Note how the mother was told they “believe” her daughter ate too much? They didn’t want to actually check her out in case that rained on their parade.
Doctors’ organisations in the country are working together to form a campaign to combat the United Kingdom’s obesity epidemic. The campaign proposes exercise awareness, ‘fat taxes’ and banning or restricting fast-food advertising.
‘Up to twenty-five percent of the United Kingdom’s population are…
ONE.org - fighting global malnutrition and poverty.
Is it me or is there something missing here?
Their website says;
From birmingham to bamako
A healthy, balanced, nutrient packed diet is critical to our health and productivity.
The poor in the developing world don’t have enough to eat. What has that got to do with healthism in the west? What is their case?
* Here’s some more;
The food we eat is killing us - because it lacks the proper nutrition. This year alone over 2 million people will die as a result of being obese and over 2 million children will die from undernutrition.
That’s just insane.
In just a matter of weeks, world leaders are meeting and we have the chance to make a difference. Let’s make sure they don’t just talk, but they act.
It’s time for a food revolution. It’s time to save millions of lives.
“The food we eat is killing us”? Surely it is stopping us from dying, like those who do not have enough to eat-or anything at all? Is anyone really crass enough to compare being fat, to starving to death, or am I missing something? This has apparently, collected thousands of signatures. WTELF?
*addition.
