December 2011
Untitled: Fat Acceptance - Tread Lightly →
quintessentiallydisheveled:
I see a lot of humanitarian movement on Tumblr on the topic of ‘Fat Acceptance’. The quintessential message being that society has completely obliterated our notion of what ‘healthy’ and ‘sexy’ look like and replaced it with a completely unattainable, Photoshopped vision. Media has flooded our…
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah; de blah. Can this...
“This is a set of words, not an essay. you are incompetent”
– A spammer (yes, you read that right, a spammer trying to promote cheap viagra or something similar) just left this comment at a Tiger Beatdown post.
Is this how they think we will approve their comment?! If you are trying to peddle your fake/ illegal wares on a site, shouldn’t you, at least, try to...
Blue And Bluer: Hello, fellow white people! →
redlightpolitics:
stfuconfederates:
This is going to be raw and merciless. I am, in all seriousness, warning you. If you identify as transable or transethnic, unfollow, stop reading, walk away. You’ll notice that I prefaced this as pertaining to white people.
Oh, I see Tumblr has caught up with the “transabled community”. I, too, was appalled when I learned about it (only yesterday, however,...
“[TRIGGER WARNING: Rape] Fat women are treated as utterly undesirable in our...”
– Jaclyn Friedman, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety (via khaleesi)
Fat women are treated as utterly undesirable in our culture [and] are often turned into a ‘bizarre’ fetish object. The result is that fat women are told to be grateful for any sexual...
“Happy Christmas, Feliz Natal, Feliz Navidad, Joyeux Noël, Heri za Kwanzaa,...”
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Time to deal with wariness
I must admit I’ve always been a bit leery of reading feminist (and certain other tomes) why? Though I haven’t always been able to admit it, I’m wary of being mentally ‘colonized’ by bourgeois thought (oooh, get me!) and becoming alienated from myself and my surround, through what that kind of though contains and what is disseminated through it.
It’s not that I...
“Black feminist thought demonstrates Black women’s emerging power as agents of...”
– From Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge,Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. (via daniellemertina)
One distinguishing feature of Black feminist thought is its insistence that both the changed consciousness of individuals and the social transformation of political...
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Perfection isn't going to happen
Anyone who is not slim is expected not to retaliate to body related insults by returning in kind. I don’t object in principle, but in reality some people will and some need to get accept fairness should not depend on perfection of those treated unfairly.
The issue is not fat/ter people are superior it’s that the whole system of false hierarchies, including that of bodies is wrong.
It...
A fat person will never be as attractive as a...
bowchickawowers:
I saw an ‘unpopular opinions’ post that said this and it really made me think
About how fucking sexy some fat people are and how utterly busted some skinny people are and how beauty really doesn’t correlate to size in any way and Fat people and skinny people and in between people are all just people and attraction doesn’t have an ideal weight and Well Fuck that person. I’m fat...
A fat person will never be as attractive as a...
bowchickawowers:
I saw an ‘unpopular opinions’ post that said this and it really made me think
About how fucking sexy some fat people are and how utterly busted some skinny people are and how beauty really doesn’t correlate to size in any way and Fat people and skinny people and in between people are all just people and attraction doesn’t have an ideal weight and Well Fuck that person. I’m fat...
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Interesting debate about Christopher Hitchens
I must admit I really liked him found him to be a brilliant writer, fascinating thinker and intriguing person. I feel sadder that he’s not going to be around any more. Though often said, no less sincere for that, rest in peace CH.
chareth-christmasstory:
hey guys
can we stop with the petty curvy girls vs skinny girls bullshit?
someone’s self-worth isn’t determined by the size jeans they wear. if they’re curvy, who cares? if they’re skinny, who cares?
let’s just agree that beauty comes in all different shapes and sizes and stop putting down each other for not fitting certain beauty standards, k?
Can you stop with the...
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"Positive" is underneath the imposition of hate
I don’t go in for calling myself “fat positive” if people decide to affect derangement about fatness that doesn’t get them the right to define what is the median merely because of their social status or numbers. They still have to make sense.
I resent calling myself “positive” merely because I refuse to be (pathologically) negative as if that has to be...
I have fat, but I am not fat.
thisgingersnapsback:
I am not an extension of my fat. Fat is an extension of the wonderful person I am. Calling me fat reduces me to nothing more than the pounds that make up the (admittedly sexy son of a bitching) person that I am, and I am so much more than that.
Everyone is so much more than just their bodies.
Fucking deal with it, haters.
Everyone is so much more than just their...
Esoterica: critique of black community →
daniellemertina:
My problem with how the black community is critiqued by black people is that oftentimes it is in a very crass kinda way that is unappreciative of the context to be acquired from history and current injustice.
Like that Boondocks quote, is that supposed to be funny? Do ya’ll…
I wish I could extra heart this post.
Pulpo Fiction: on tumblr and body image →
pulpofiction:
I swear, thinspo blogs on tumblr make me not want to diet or lose weight because they are just so over-the-top. “Don’t you want hip bones instead of pizza? Collar bones instead of cupcakes? NEVER GIVE UP! SEND ME A SMILEY AND I’LL DO 30 PUSHUPS” Actually your hip bones are still there even if you…
Good for you! I do pity those stuck in that trap and I mean that without any...
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Oh wait
So a certain kiddie weight loss factory is claiming behaviour modification makes sticking with lifestyle anorexia more viable and this is proven by actual research?
You’d have thought this would be more widely known.
As we know the weight spectrum is a product of each person’s metabolic function. What is being claimed is that changing behaviour, alters this function. If so, it means...
RinRin Fantabulous: I spent a good chunk of time... →
rinrinfantabulous:
I spent a good chunk of time at my practicum today reading Beyond a Shadow of a Diet: The Therapists’s Guide to Treating Compulsive Eating. I’m several chapters in and a lot of it so far is information I’ve already encountered and that would be familiar to anyone who’s into Health at Every Size:…
Do they have any links to these “recent reviews”?
Stop it tumblr
Okay, tumblr (or my computer) seems to be misbehaving hence the ‘invisbile notes’ so I’ll post this response to leonineanitheroine, here.
Yeah, I know I feel the same, perhaps because it seems to have been a slew of it recently from all sides that I just can’t summon up the same outrage as when there’s a break from it; see a brilliant recent example of it playing out...
One Blog to Rule Them All: Some people may say... →
msqueenly:
A conversation about fat Black women fueled this but that’s just the impetus.
I have been beat down my entire life because of my weight. By my mother, by her ex-husband. By my sister. My grandmother. My uncles and their wives/girlfriends. By my aunts. Everyday I went to school since…
Who benefits from the idea that all Black women are confident and happy?
I hope you...
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Sides
When it comes to fat, people like to talk about sides, I ask, what are those sides?
If the ‘obesity’ crusade is about fat people’s health, what is the other side of that?
Are we against ourselves, our health? Indeed those telling us that can’t believe it either. They also tell us we are so biased in our own favour that our views must be ignored in favour of theirs because...
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Black women's self esteem
Excellent post by whattamisaid, about black women attitude and weight.
Black women have higher “self esteem” or a more positive attitude about themselves in general, whether fat or not because its against a background that negates and demeans as a matter of course.
That means you are forced to take a stance against it, or be dragged to the level of that surround.
If no one else is...
leonineantiheroine:
People get triggered by someone talking about their OCD? Fuck off out of here.
People really need to stop using the word trigger for every fucking thing that feels unpleasant for them.
And “safety” as an excuse to shut down or hide the fact that you wish to police people’s behaviour.
All humans create their own sickness
That’s the assertion being made to us all, those who feel somewhat untouched by that should take note of the change.
There was a time when this was seen more as pernicious quackery. It was rejected as a primitive historical legacy of ignorance, attributing illness to possession by evil spirits or the wages of sin and so on.
Some idea of causing your own illness remained in the back of the...
: This community doesn't need your bullshit. →
shakethecobwebs:
If you have personal issues with each other, fine. There are people that are prominent in the fat-acceptance movement that I don’t follow, because our personalities just don’t mesh well.
HOWEVER, there’s a different between not liking someone and deliberately disrespecting them. There’s a…
Examples please. Whenever people talk of hurting others in the FA context, I...
leonine antiheroine: fuck queer, i'm a lesbian? →
ineffableshe:
being on tumblr has made me increasingly reluctant to identify as queer. instead, i have become increasingly drawn to reclaiming “lesbian” & “dyke.” because you know what? calling oneself a lesbian shouldn’t be considered passe or inherently “mainstream.” fuck this gay =…
Well said. I also don’t get this idea that female heterosex is somehow “straight”...
Eeych, excuse my internet typos
It’s hit “edit” again, (((sigh)))…..
“Women who are fat are said to have ‘let themselves go.’ The very phrase connotes...”
– “Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship,” by Cecilia Hartley (via esperanzaj)
The irony is people’s reactions to fatness are usually about driving us to become ever more distant from ourselves in order to insert their generic ‘obese’ caricature.
One Blog to Rule Them All: Women who oppress other... →
msqueenly:
Somehow, of course, a conversation on a Black blog I visited a while back (abagond.wordpress.com) in a post about Black women in general and their beauty turned into a conversation about Black women’s body and what types the male commenters like the best, which is totally sexist. I haven’t…
Like in many situations I find myself in, hardly anyone backed me up and most of my...
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I must admit....
…to being a little surprised by those who still hark back, even wistfully….. for respite (from fat hating/body pressure)….. or as a joke to an era when adverts imploring ‘skinny’ women to sort themselves out with curve inducing snake oil, made sense.
There is no change, it’s the same script except today its trained at fat/ter people, with some extra’s...
